Nutritional Knowledge and Health Awareness among Tribal Adolescent Girls: A Study of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences Deemed to Be University, Bhubaneswar

Debahuti Puta; Ms Yagyaseni Naik

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.62213

Nutritional Knowledge and Health Awareness among Tribal Adolescent Girls: A Study of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences Deemed to Be University, Bhubaneswar

Author(s)	Debahuti Puta, Ms Yagyaseni Naik
Country	India
Abstract	Despite the fact that the 2011 census listed 104,218,034 members of scheduled tribes, the Constitution states that these groups make up 8.6% of the nation's overall population. According to the 2011 Census of India, 698 scheduled tribes are listed by the Indian government in its Draft National Tribal Policy 2006; 705 distinct groups have been designated as scheduled tribes. However, it is impossible to give a thorough account of each of these tribal groups' socioeconomic standing and demographic prospects. With 64 scheduled tribes, including 13 primitive tribes, the state of Odisha has a special place on the Indian tribal map. One of India's most intriguing ethnographic states is Odisha, where the goal of all study is to uncover reality. The current study at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, is to investigate the nutritional knowledge and health awareness of tribal adolescent girls. 100 respondents were selected at random using a structured interview schedule to gather demographic data from the tribal adolescent females in Kiss College. The goal is to determine how well-informed indigenous adolescent females are about nutrition. to assess the indigenous teenage girls' level of health knowledge, and to determine the prevalent health issues and nutritional inadequacies that indigenous teenage females face. It examines how well the present healthcare system works to raise people's knowledge of their current health. According to the report, teenage females are afflicted with a variety of illnesses. Poverty, economic reliance, sociocultural limitations, and a lack of education, knowledge, and awareness limit access to the greatest available benefits and awareness from the state and federal governments. It has been noted that the health consciousness of the ancient tribal females is steadily rising. The health circumstances of the tribal teenage girls in KISS are deteriorating despite a steady increase in health awareness brought on by a lack of effective approaches to adolescent health.
Keywords	Nutrition, Health, Awareness, Tribal, Adolescent girls, Odisha
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On	2025-12-04
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.62213

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