Knowledge regarding Dietary Pattern among Female Adolescents of a Secondary School, Bhaktapur
Keywords:
Dietary pattern, Adolescent, Skipped Meals, KnowledgeAbstract
Adolescence marks a time of rapid and intense emotional and physical changes. There is increase value placed on peer acceptance and approval. During this development phase, a adolescent girl begins to focus on their physical appearance. The experience of body dissatisfaction can lead to poor health habits associated with poor eating habits, dieting and severe eating disorder for the purpose of losing body weight and to achieve specific body image leading to various nutritional deficienfy disorders.This research was conducted to assess the Knowledge and Attitude regarding Dietary Pattern among Adolescent Girls.
The design of the study was descriptive in nature which was carried out in secondary school of Madhyapur Thimi, in Bhaktapur district. In this study 100 Samples of class 8, 9 and 10 were selected by using non- probability purposive sampling method. A semi-structured, self administered questionairs were used for data collection and analysis was done by using descriptive statisistics.
In this study majority of the adolescents had knowledge about the beneficial and non beneficial food items. According to finding, all of the respondents(100%) expressed that chapati, mango are benificial and Icecream is nonbenificial. Similarly majority of respondents (88%) had expressed that hot drinks are benificial than cold drinks (90%). Majority of the respondents (86%) think that exercise is the best way to control overweight whereas 60% of them think that dieting helps to maintain body figure . Fot this 30% of them prefer to skip lunch, dinner (10%) and break fast(8%).Similary they also prefered lemon water(26%), water(20%), tea and coffee(12%) and nothing by mouth(12%) respectively.
From this study, it is concluded that knowledge regarding dietary pattern among adolescents is good even though they prefer to skip the foods by supplimenting it by non food to maintain their body figures.
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