Descriptive Study to Assess the Life Style of Children Residing in Different Community Areas

Abstract

Lifestyle plays an important role in the development of healthy lifestyle during childhood. Children learn from the influences around them. Part of growing up is creating the habits that will follow children throughout their lifetimes and shape them as they mature. The ways to being healthy include healthy eating, physical activities, weight management, and stress management. Good health is a pre-requisite of human productivity and the developmental process. The main objective of the study is to assess the life style of children residing in different community areas, to compare the life style of children residing in different community areas and to determine the association between life style of children with selected demographic variable. The research design adopted for the study was descriptive design. A nonexperimental approach was adopted for the present study. Convenient sampling technique was used to select the 200 samples of 6–12 years children’s mother. The tools used for the study was semi-structured interview schedule to assess the lifestyle of children’s. The data collection was done through interview method, and analysis was done by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results revealed that there was significant difference between the lifestyle of rural group and urban group, so the research hypothesis was accepted. The association was analyzed by using one-way ANOVA and the significant value was found between age and lifestyle of rural children, on the other hand among urban children age and type of school was significantly associated with lifestyle. Therefore, hypothesis was accepted for it but for other variables hypothesis was rejected.

Keywords: Lifestyle, Children, health, exercise, habits, lifestyle

Cite this Article

Sainpriya, Jeen Mexina, Rupinder Kaur. Descriptive Study to Assess the Life Style of Children Residing in Different Community Areas. Research and Reviews: Journal  of  Medicine.    2016;

6(3): 24–31p.