1M. Sc. Mental Health Nursing, Mental Health Nursing Department, Himalayan College of Nursing, SRHU, Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
2Assistant Professor, Mental Health Nursing Department, Himalayan College of Nursing, SRHU, Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
3Nursing Faculty, College of Nursing, AIIMS, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
Online published on 24 February, 2017.
Eating can be a way to temporarily silence or “stuff down “uncomfortable emotions, including anger, fear, sadness, anxiety, loneliness, resentment, and shame. While we are numbing our self with food, we can avoid the emotions we had rather not feel. Getting together with other people for a meal is a great way to relieve stress, but it can also lead to overeating.
to assess the eating habits and selected psycho-physical parameters and to find correlation between eating habits and psycho-physical parameters among adolescent girls.
An exploratory research approach was adopted. Stratified random sampling technique was used in selecting setting and selection of samples. The data was collected from 252 adolescent girls from the selected educational institute of Uttarakhand. Tool used are EAT 40, and DASS for collection of data. Content validation and reliability of tool was established for all the tools. The data analysis was by using both inferential and descriptive statistical method with the help of Microsoft Excel 2013, Epi Info software and manual calculation
The result shown that there was a relationship between eating habits (dieting behavior, oral control, and food preoccupation and body image perception) and selected psycho-physical parameter (stress, anxiety, depression and BMI) at 0.05 level of significance.
The findings suggests that the most of the adolescent girls having poor eating habits and were associated with their selected psycho-physical parameters. There should be awareness program provided to all the adolescents to maintain healthy life style.
Eating Habits, Psycho-Physical Parameters, and Adolescent Girls
