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Pediatrics & Neonatal Healthcare 2017

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September 11-12, 2017 Los Angeles, CA, USA

World Pediatrics &

Neonatal Healthcare Conference

Journal of Pediatric Health Care and Medicine Volume 1, Issue 1

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Effect of nutritional status and test anxiety on academic performance of primary school

children in Enderta District, Tigray, North Ethiopia, 2016

Mulualem Merga

Mekelle University College of Health Science, Ethiopia

ducation is one of the best ways to be out of poverty, because with education people can be self sufficient

and have the potential to lead and help others. In Ethiopia so much progress has been made toward achieving

universal primary completion, but completing primary school does not ensure that students have attained basic

literacy and numeracy skills due to many factors that affect students’ school performance: The aim of this study

was to assess nutritional status and test anxiety level of primary school children and to see their relation with

academic performance of students in the study area. ACross sectional quantitative study design was applied. The

study subjects were students from grade 4-8 who were selected from each section by using SRS after stratification

and proportional allocation. Data was collected by trained data collectors. Multi variate analysis using linear

regression was used to see effect of different factors on academic performance of school age children. Pearson’s

correlation test was used to see the association between test anxiety and academic performance of participants.

Among the total sample of 848 respondents, 458 (54%) score below mean score and the remaining score above

the mean value. From the 848, participants, 117(13.8%) were leveled as underweight, and the prevalence of

stunting in the area was 54.3% based on WHO’s reference data. BMI, anxiety score and HAZ have shown

positive association with academic performance, where as education of the mothers, showed negative association

with academic performance of study participants.