Author(s): Dr. Mahesh Yadav and Umesh

Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to compare the Nutritional status among the students of different socio economic status. By using simple random sampling researcher had selected 9 colleges with two colleges from each district from the Gorakhpur region. Again 900 male students aged between 18-22 years were randomly selected from these 9 colleges and they were divided into three income groups, that is High Income Group, Middle Income Group and Low Income Group by using Socio-Economic Status Scale Questionnaire developed by G. P. Srivastava (1991) and from three groups a total of 900 students, 300 students each From High Income Group, Middle Income Group and Low Income group were selected for the purpose of this study using stratified random sampling technique. Nutritional status was calculated by measuring body weight and height of subjects and using weighing machine and Anthropometry. the following procedure. The following formula was used for calculation of nutritional status: It will be found by the following formula Pelidisi formula/ Pelidisi index or parquet index: - [Nutritional status = [3√10*Weight in gram.)/ (Sitting height in cm.) ×100] Weight of the subject was measured in gram and height was measured in cm.for the statistical treatment in this study ‘One Way Analysis of Variance’ was applied to find out the significance difference among different socio-economic groups in relation to their nutritional status. L. S. D. post hoc test was applied to find out the paired difference. The level of significance was set at 0.05 levels. it was found that significant difference exists between high and middle, high and lower, whereas no significant difference exist between middle and lower income group. The comparison through L.S.D. among all three income groups showed that differences were found between students of high and middle, and high and low income groups in Nutritional Status.

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