A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING EATING DISORDER AMONG ADOLESCENT IN SELECTED SCHOOL AT SIKAR DISTRICT (RAJASTHAN)

Author Name: 1. Mr. Anesh kumar Saini, 2. Mrs. Aruna D Das, 3. Dr. Pradeep kumar Sharma

Volume/Issue: 04/11

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2024-38599333/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. M.Sc. Nursing, Government college of Nursing, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
2. Lecturer, Govt. College of Nursing, Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.
3. Lecturer, Govt. College of Nursing, Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.

ABSTRACT

Nutrition is a major environmental influence of physical and mental growth and development in early life. Eating disorders are complex illnesses that affect adolescents with increasing frequency. The rank has the third most common chronic illness in adolescent females. Eating disorders are a variety of disordered eating attitude; seriously interrupt in women in the process of adapting nourishing habits during the pre conceptual period. Eating disorders are a daily struggle for ten million females and one million males in the U.S. The three most common eating disorders are Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders. These eating disorders are a coping mechanism the result in an obsession with food and / or weight, anxiety around eating guilt, and severe and adverse effects and psychological and physical health. Eating disorder should be taken very seriously. Although it is a socio cultural problem of developed society, now days it is also increasing rapidly in developing countries. No specific cause can be found for these disorders. They affect persons from all socio economic classes, ages, genders and ethnic cultures. Two major sub groups of the disorders are recognized a restrictive form in which food intake is severely limited (Anorexia nervosa) and a bulimic form, in which binge eating episodes are followed by attempts to minimize the effects of over eating via vomiting, catharsis, exercise or fasting10. The finding of the study showed that the overall mean knowledge score with standard deviation was 3.32 and the highest frequency of adolescents 60 (60.00%) had inadequate knowledge on eating disorders and in attitude the mean attitude score with SD was 8.48 and the most of 70 (70.00%) adolescents had positive attitude towards eating disorders. The negative correlation (r = -0.020) was found between the knowledge of adolescents and attitude of adolescents towards eating disorders. The result of association between knowledge regarding eating disorders among adolescents with age (calculated χ2 value 55.18), gender (calculated χ2 value 22.37) education (calculated χ2 value 9.84), type of family (calculated χ2 value81.77) and body built(calculated χ2 value5.991) are found significant at 0.05 level of significance. Association of the level of attitude with Age (calculated χ2 value17.12), gender (calculated χ2 value 5.51) Education of adolescent(calculated χ2 value 9.58) are found significant at 0.05 LOS.

Key words: Adolescents; eating disorder; knowledge; attitude; Anorexia nervosa; EAT 26; Bulimia nervosa; binge eating disorder