出版社：Rural Research Institute of Physiology & Applied Nutrition
摘要：The present study is a cross-sectional study .The sample size of 1041 was estimated. The study was conducted to find out the prevalence of goiter among women in the reproductive age group in two districts of Kashmir valley, which were selected randomly; namely, Srinagar and Ganderbal, A frame of the blocks and villages in the two districts and their population was formed. From each district 10% of the blocks were selected & from each block, 5% of the villages were selected using simple random sampling. A door to door survey was conducted and all the women in the reproductive age group (15-49 years) identified and screened using a pre-tested proforma. All of them were examined clinically for goiter after taking informed consent.132 women had grade 1 goiter and 909 women had grade 0 goiter. No case of grade 2 goiter was found in the study population. The overall prevalence of grade 1 goiter was 12.68% in the two districts, Srinagar and Ganderbal. The prevalence of grade 1 goiter was highest in the 20-24 years age group (15.5%) and lowest in the 45-49 years age group (8.9%). The prevalence of goiter in the present study was highest in women belonging to socio-economic class IV (13.9%) and lowest in women belonging to class V (11.1%). The results of the present study infers that Women in the reproductive age group especially need to be made aware about the importance of consumption of adequately iodized salt because of the wide range of ill effects of iodine deficiency on the developing fetus and the growing child.So, monitoring of iodine content of salt for at distributor level & at consumer should be done
