Abstract Objectives To assess the level of knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding anaemia and to find out health-seeking behaviour about anaemia among school going adolescent girls. Methods A community based cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among 300 adolescent schoolgirls. Results The present study observed that the maximum proportion of the study participants were in the age group of 17–19 years 173 (57.7 %), followed by 14–16 years 113 (37.7 %), and 10–13 years of age group were 14 (4.6 %). The maximum proportion of the study participants were from General Category 135 (45 %), followed by OBC Category 83 (27.7 %), and SC/ST Category 82 (27.3 %). The majority of the fathers of study participants were literate (approx. 85 %). Illiteracy was present only in 46 (15.33 %), education level up to primary was 101 (33.67 %), middle 56 (18.67 %), secondary 43 (14.33 %). Conclusions Rural adolescent girls are prone to anaemia there was adequate knowledge but moderate attitude and inadequate practiceEducation level of participants, mother’s education level, and socio-economic status had a major influence on the knowledge, attitude and practice regarding anaemia.
Garg et al. (Wed,) studied this question.