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Gaukaran Janghel ¹, Priyamvada Shrivastava ², Reeta Venugopal ³

Affiliations
1 Aakanksha College of Special Education, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, IN
2 SoS in Psychology, Pt.RavishankarShukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, IN
3 SoS in Physical Education, Centre for Women Harassment Cell, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, IN

Abstract

The pre-menstrual syndrome screening tool (PMS) was designed to measure the pre-menstrual problems of sports and non sports women in the Indian context, with in age range of 25 to 45 years. The main objective of the present study is determining the psychometric properties of PMS screening tool. The analysis of the tool included the basic items descriptions concurrent validity, content validity obtained statistical computation of internal consistency, construct validity factor extraction, discriminant validity and reliability. The result of exploratory factor analysis revealed the important factors extracted namely- physical, psychological and behavioral. The PMS screening tool is reliable and valid for assessing the Pre-Menstrual Syndrome women of age group 25-45 years.

Keywords

Pre Menstrual Syndrome, Reliability and Validity.

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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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Moyna Chakravarty ¹, Reeta Venugopal ², Anuradha Chakraborty ³, Sunil Kumar Mehta ⁴, Aniksha Varoda ⁵

Affiliations
1 Professor of S.o.S. in Anthropology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh,, IN
2 Professor of S.o.S. in Physical Education and Director of Centre for Women’s Studies, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur-492010, Chhattisgarh, IN
3 Research Associate, S.o..S.. in Anthropology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur Chhattisgarh,, IN
4 Research Scholar, S.o.S.in Anthropology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur Chhattisgarh,, IN
5 Research Assistant, Centre for Women’s Studies, & Research Scholar, S.o.S. in Anthropology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur-492010, Chhattisgarh, IN

Abstract

Nutritional problems have serious health implications impacting physical development, psychological, behavioral and work performance of an individual. Anaemia is the most common problem among pregnant and lactating women in most of the developing countries. Anemia during pregnancy is the most common preventable causes of maternal morbidity and poor prenatal outcome. Healthy growth and development of a girl through adolescence helps to prepare her for healthy pregnancies during child bearing years. Prevalence of anemia in India is very high across all groups. The present study was conducted to assess the levels of anaemia and nutritional status among the Baiga women and adolescent girls residing in three districts of Chhattisgarh. Only 42% of the Baiga women, of reproductive age, were found to have normal levels of anemia while 58% of them were found to be anaemic. Prevalence of anaemia was found to be very high among adolescent Baiga girls. Only 5.3% adolescent Baiga girls were found to have normal levels of Hb while 94.7% had various degrees of anaemia, putting them into high risk zones for the future pregnancies. Majority of the Baiga women respondents i.e. 47.33% had low BMI between16-18.5 which falls as under nutritional category, 6.67% were very severely underweight and only 40.66 % of the respondents could be categorized under the normal category of Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI among adolescent girls when compared to WHO 2004 standard of malnutrition revealed that 27.2% girls could be classified under the normal category, 24.2 % girls suffered from mild thinness, 17.8 % girls suffered from moderate thinness and 30.8% girls suffered from severe thinness category of malnutrition.The strategy of increasing iron intake in every households through dietary diversifications and use of iron fortified iodized salts, providing IFA supplementations to vulnerable groups, testing and timely treatment of pregnant women and adolescent girls with anaemia, is required to accelerate the pace of reduction in the prevalence of iron deficient anemia to enable the country to achieve SDG target for the reduction of anaemia.

Keywords

Nutritional Status, Anaemia, BMI, Baiga Women and Adolescent girls.

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