Impact of lifestyle patterns on obesity and the effectiveness of stp on knowledge regarding hazards of obesity among obese adolescents at selected schools in Chengalpattu

The aim of the study was to assess the impact of lifestyle patterns on obesity and the effectiveness of STP on levels of knowledge regarding hazards of obesity through quasi-experimental, one group pre & post test design. Sixty samples were selected using simple random sampling technique. The levels of obesity was classified by BMI classification and life style pattern and knowledge was assessed through structured questionnaire to the adolescents for pre test followed by STP the same questionnaire was used for post test. The patterns of life style analysis depicted that the obese adolescents 40% belong to obese classification I, 15% obese classification II, 5% classification III. The mean value of lifestyle pattern 121, mean value of levels of obesity 30.24 and Pearson correlation ‘r ‘ value 0.34 are statistically significant at p < 0.001 level. Its shows that there is a positive correlation between the lifestyle pattern and levels of obesity. The pre test levels of knowledge results revealed that among 60 samples 26.66% of them had inadequate knowledge, 66.66% of them had moderate knowledge and 6.66% of them adequate knowledge. In post test was conducted 7 days after STP, results showed that the majority 80% of adult had adequate knowledge and 20% of them had moderate knowledge on hazards of obesity and no one had inadequate knowledge. The mean difference of the pre test score is 19.57, post test score is 11.28 and the results of paired ‘t ’value is 17.35which was statistically significant at p < 0.001 level. Its shows that there was an effectiveness of STP on knowledge regarding hazards of obesity among obese adolescents. There is a significant association between the levels of post test knowledge with educational status of obese adolescents.