Tucker Bettis, Marshall Lewis, Ronghzi Wang, Andrea Gillis, Polina Zmijewski, Marshall McLeod, Jessica Fazendin, Brenessa Lindeman, Herbert Chen
An Evaluation of Health Literacy in Patients Undergoing Surgical Evaluation for Thyroid Disease
The Journal of surgical research
targeting huge burden adolescent anemia weekly iron folic acid supplementation wifs launched government india studies done assess effective functioning program since inception present study done assess knowledge wifs among adolescents madhya pradesh associated factors crosssectional study done total six districts 3 districts national adolescent program implemented 3 districts madhya pradesh multistage stratified random sampling technique used enrollment 3213 adolescent boys girls prestructured validated tool used collect paperless data ethical approval consent participants obtained statistical analysis performed using spss v21 observed knowledge wifs among adolescent girls 293 compared adolescent boys 141 adolescent girls received iron folic acid tablets compared adolescent boys 608 girls vs 241 boys mostly adolescents got iron tablets school followed anganwadi phcchc girls rural location literacy poverty line status knowledge anemia adolescents got iron albendazole tablets adequate consumption iron tablets 4 associated higher knowledge wifs knowledge wifs found less adolescent boys hint fact effective execution program among beneficiaries leads automatic increased knowledge program least among beneficiaries thus indirect significant indirect finding nationwide wifs program needs put greater focus among adolescent boys apart major focus female gender among age groups