Research Article
Nutritional Status of School Going Adolescent Girls in Awash Town, Afar Region, Ethiopia
Table 2
Dietary intake characteristics of school going adolescent girls, Awash town, 2018 (n = 340).
| Source of food | Own product | 101 | 29.7% | Market purchase | 201 | 59.1% | Gift | 6 | 1.8% | Exchange and barter | 12 | 3.5% | Humanitarian food aid | 16 | 4.7% | Loan | 4 | 1.2% |
| Mainly used food staples in the area | Teff | 294 | 86.5% | Maize | 11 | 3.2% | Sorghum | 15 | 4.4% | Wheat | 20 | 5.9% |
| Number of hunger episodes in last month | No episodes | 15 | 4.4% | One episode | 5 | 1.5% | Two episodes | 35 | 10.3% | Three episodes | 71 | 20.9% | Four and above episodes | 214 | 62.9% |
| Diet diversity | Poor (<4 food groups) | 167 | 49% | Good (≥4 food groups) | 173 | 51% |
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