期刊名称:International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
电子版ISSN:1308-5581
出版年度:2022
卷号:14
期号:5
页码:6168-6171
DOI:10.9756/INTJECSE/V14I5.765
语种:English
出版社:International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
摘要:Descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted to assess the eating habits of 130 Adolescent Girls aged 17-19 years studying in selected Arts & Science College, Puducherry. Simple random sampling technique used to select the sample based on the inclusion criteria. Results: Dietary habits of adolescent girls shows that 96.90% of them had poor dietary habit, 3.10 % had good dietary habits and no adolescents hadvery good dietary habits.Physical activity shows that 61.50% of the adolescent girls had poorphysical activity level and 2.30% had good level ofphysical activity. Statistically significant association found between dietary habits and selected socio demographic variables such as diet pattern (p=0.002) and place of residence (p=0.032) at p<0.05.Association between physical activity and selected socio demographic variables found statistically significant association between Religion and Physical activity of the adolescent girls at p<0.05.