A study of health consciousness of higher secondary school adolescents of Chandrapur district

The purpose of this study was to study the Health Consciousness of higher secondary adolescents of Chandrapur District. For this purpose Health Consciousness Scale (HCS) developed by N.V.V.S. Narayana (2009) was used for measuring the level of consciousness of secondary school adolescents towards health. A sample of 400 (male = 200, female = 200) individual drawn from Chandrapur District of Maharashtra participated in this study. The age of the sample ranges from 16–19 years. The findings of the study revealed that among male adolescents 40% (F=80) were observed with low level of Health Consciousness (HC), 40% (F=80) male adolescents were observed with moderate level of Health Consciousness (HC) and 45% (F=90) male adolescents were observed with high level of Health Consciousness (HC). Further, it was revealed from the findings of the study that among female adolescents 45% (F=90) were observed with low level of Health Consciousness (HC), 25% (F=50) female adolescents were observed with moderate level of Health Consciousness (HC) and 30% (F=60) female adolescents were observed with high level of Health Consciousness (HC).