Original Research Article
Year: 2017 | Month: December | Volume: 4 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 18-21
A Correlational Study to Assess the Impact of Eating Habits on BMI of Adolescents
Prof. Pauline Sharmila
Principal, School of Nursing Science and Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India.
ABSTRACT
Adolescence is one of the greatest periods of change during our life time. Changes occur in all realms of human development–physical, emotional, intellectual even spiritual. Body shapes are changing, independent thinking beings and adolescence takes on the social values and roles of adulthood. It’s a time of new discoveries and opportunity, but also of anxiety and stress. Calorie and protein requirements are maximum during the period of adolescence. Increased physical growth combined with poor eating habits contribute to accentuating the potential risk among adolescence for poor nutrition. The nutritional problem affects the adolescent population worldwide. According to WHO the world’s adolescent population is 1200 million; 10-19 years of age and about 19% of the total population faces a series of nutritional challenges not only affecting their growth and development but also their livelihood as adults. As the adolescent group remains a largely neglected, difficult to measure and hard to reach population directly the needs of adolescents in particular are ignored and not addressed A descriptive research approach and descriptive co relational research design was used to conduct the study. The setting of the study was the selected school’s in Bhangel, Greater Noida. The samples for the present study were 40 adolescents aged 14-16 years and samples were selected for this study using Non Probability Purposive sampling technique. The results of the study have revealed that according to eating habits majority (82.5%) have moderate eating habit and 17.5% having poor eating habit and according to BMI 52.5% were underweight, 47.5% were having normal weight and none of them were obese or overweight. The correlation between the Eating habits and BMI was -0.037 which indicate negative low correlation. There was no significant association between eating habits & BMI with the selected demographic variables.
Key words: Eating habits, BMI, Adolescents.
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