Prevalence of Anemia Among Home-Makers and Working Women

Abstract

Anaemia, defined as a decreased concentration of blood haemoglobin, is one of the most common nutritional deficiency diseases observed globally and affects more than a quarter of the world’s population, especially the women. The haemoglobin count for the women involved in the study were determined using an auto-analyser in a private lab. As a part of subjective assessment, nine questions were asked to all the women who participated in the study. Data was imported to Excel, and tabulation was done. The values were tabulated and analysed. According to the descriptive statistics, under group-1 consisting of home-makers, 50% were anaemic, and 50% were non-anaemic. Under group-2 consisting of working-women 61.1% were anaemic and the rest 38.9% were non-anaemic, which does not show any prominent significance among both the groups. Chi-square test was done to check the significance which provided a Pearson chi-square value-0.450 with a p-value  of 0.502(p ≥ 0.05), which was non-significant. As a result, the prevalence of anaemia among the groups is not significant. Within the limits of the study,  it is seen that the incidence of anaemia is slightly higher in working women when compared to home-makers. However, this association was not significant since p ≥ 0.05 (p=0.502, chi-square test), which denotes that women lead a compromised quality of life.