Effectiveness of Lifestyle modification programme on lifestyle practices related to selected lifestyle diseases among school going adolescents in Ernakulam district, Kerala.

Dr. Shini Mathew Pulickal; Dr. C. Kanniammal

Volume : VIII, Issue : VII, July - 2019

Effectiveness of Lifestyle modification programme on lifestyle practices related to selected lifestyle diseases among school going adolescents in Ernakulam district, Kerala.

Dr. Shini Mathew Pulickal, Dr. C. Kanniammal

Abstract :

Adolescence is a life stage with unique characteristics, translating the fast evolution and bio - psycho-social changes and these translations are typically expressed in their lifestyles. The impact of various unhealthy lifestyle practices are seen in the form of rapidly increasing rate of non communicable diseases. The present study was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of lifestyle modification programme on lifestyle practices related to selected lifestyle diseases The study was conducted among 400 school going adolescents who were chosen by probability sampling techniques A practice check list was used to measure lifestyle practices of adolescents related. All the measurements were carried out once before the Lifestyle modification programme (LSMP) and twice after administering the LSMP. Most of the baseline variables among school going adolescents were homogenously distributed in control and experimental group. With regard to the assessment of lifestyle practices, the present study revealed that 30.5% of adolescents in control group and 26.5% in experimental group had unhealthy lifestyle practices and 69.5% and 73.5% of sample in control and experimental group had healthy practices in pre test. It was found that LSMP was effective in changing the lifestyle practices of school going adolescents in experimental group (t = 23.375, p < 0.01).The present study also revealed that most of the baseline variables were associated with lifestyle practice of adolescents towards selected lifestyle diseases (p < 0.05).