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Subuhi Nishad ¹, Mahendra Kumar ², Shabir Kumar Anant ³, Priyamvada Srivastava ², Reeta Venugopal ⁴

Affiliations
1 School of Studies in Physical Education, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, IN
2 School of Studies in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, IN
3 Sports Officer Chattisgarh Kamdhenu University, Durg, Anjora. (C.G), IN
4 Physical Education Director-Centre for Women Studies, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, IN

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the discriminating predictors of high blood pressure and normal blood pressure group of teacher. A total sample of 520 (254 males and 266 female) university teachers of Chhattisgarh was selected for the study. The dependent variable for the study was high blood pressure and healthy group of teachers. The independent variables were body mass index, physical activity, age, weight, height, waist hip ratio (anthropometric), hypo-kinetic problems awareness, personal and environmental barrier to physical activity (psychological) and physical activity level. The high blood pressure and normal blood pressure groups were identified by checklist and the other variables were assessed with help of questionnaires, standard equipments. Discriminant analysis was used to analyze the data. The result indicated that the independent variables, age, waist hip ratio and personal barrier to physical activity, emerged out to be discriminating predictors, contributing significantly in discriminating the two groups. These variables contributed 62%, 47.8% and 36.5%, of their variance respectively. Significant positive association between predicting factors with the high blood pressure group was found, indicating their role in HBP problem.

Keywords

Hypertension, Age, Sedentary Life Style, Barrier of Physical Activity, Hypo-Kinetic Problems Awareness.

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Reeta Venugopal ¹, Priyamvada Srivastava ², Aniksha Varoda ³, Mahendra Kumar ³

Affiliations
1 Professor Dept. of Physical Education, Pt. R.S.U. Raipur, C.G., IN
2 Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Pt. R.S.U. Raipur, C.G., IN
3 Research Scholar, Pt. R.S.U. Raipur, C.G., IN

Abstract

Adolescent girls in India may face poor nutritional status due to low access to healthy food and high mental health symptoms attributed to high stress. Total 72% of infants and 52% of married women have anaemia. Researches indicated that malnutrition during pregnancy causes the child to have increased risk of physical retardation and reduce cognitive abilities. The objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of body mass index and age on mental health of adolescent girls. 1000 adolescent girls were selected through stratified random sampling technique from different government school of Raipur, India. Mental health was measured by Mental Health Battery. Anthropometric measurement and age was collected by the standard procedure. Multivariate analysis of variance and post Hoch test were employed to analyze the data. Results revealed that adolescent girls significantly differ in emotional stability, overall adjustment, autonomy, security-insecurity, intelligence and over all mental health with increasing age. Post Hoch test showed that adolescent girls with low body mass index differ significantly on overall adjustment and self concept dimension of mental health in comparison to adolescent girls with normal BMI. It is concluded from the study that adolescent girls of early years (12-14) must be given environment to develop Emotional Stability, Autonomy, Security-Insecurity and Intelligence. Proper nutrition is needed to improve self concept and over all adjustment. Findings of the study draws attention to create awareness related to mental health and nutrition.

Keywords

Mental health, BMI, Adolescent Girls.

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