A cross sectional study on health risk behaviours among adolescent high school students of urban Raichur district, Karnataka
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2019, Vol 10, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Adolescents make up 1 in 6 persons in the world. Even though healthy, this group is prone for adverse health risk factors like alcohol and tobacco use, physical inactivity, eating and behavioural problems. These factors can adversely affect their health at present and also during their adulthood. Therefore, there is a necessity to promote healthy behaviours among the adolescents for their better development.Objectives: To find out the prevalence of health-related risk factors among the adolescent high school students of urban Raichur.Methodology: A cross sectional study conducted from June to August 2018, using a World Health Organization designed Global School-based Student Health Survey questionnaire (modified for India). The students from four randomly selected high schools of urban Raichur participated in the study (n= 559).Results: In the present study, the consumption of fruits, vegetables, energy dense beverages and energy dense snacks/ fast foods was 39%, 37.6%, 42.2% and 72.5% respectively. 39.5% of students had regular physical activity, 23.1% spent more than three hours watching TV/ playing computer games. The prevalence of tobacco smoking, smokeless forms of tobacco, alcohol among the students in past 30 days were 5.5%, 6.3% and 5.4% respectively. 37.9% of students reported to have experienced passive tobacco smoking.Conclusions: The results stress the need for intervention programmes aimed at increased consumption of fruits and vegetables and integrating other risk factors such as physical activity into health promotion among adolescents. Need for awareness against the harmful effects of tobacco and alcohol.
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Kalal Subhashchandra, Sushrit A Neelopant, Rahul C Kirte
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