CHAPTER-IV

ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

"Analysis is a process of organising and interpretation of data in such a

way that research questions can be answered."

 This chapter deals with the analysis and interpretations of data

collected from 60 school going children parents who are residing in
urban slums of S.R.nagar Hyderabad.

 A Structured questionnaire and attitude scale was used for the data
collection and analysis was done with the help of statistics.

 The study aimed at gathering information about "knowledge and

attitude on childhood obesity and its prevention" among parents of
school going children .

 The data was entered into the master sheet.

 Findings of the study are organised into following sections.

- Sample description
-Knowledge of childhood obesity and its prevention among parents of
school going children.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

 To assess the existing knowledge of parents regarding childhood

obesity and its prevention.
 To administer the Information Education Communication (IEC)
package on knowledge regarding childhood obesity and its
prevention among parents.
 To assess the post knowledge score among parents regarding
childhood obesity and its prevention.
 To associate knowledge score of parents with their selected
demographic variable.

SAMPLE DESCRIPTION:

The total number of parents of school going children were 60 that is who
are residing in urban slum of S.R.nagar ,Hyderabad.

The sample characteristics selected for analysis in this study were

1. Age

2. Sex

3. Education

4. Occupation
5. Number of children

6. Number of school going children

7. Habit of junk food

8. Habit of Exercise

9. Type of diet

10. child taking any medication

11.Out door play time

12.Staple food

13.Monthly income of the family

14.Habit of watching any sort of entertainment

15.Time spend with chidren for activities

TABLE – 1:
Frequency and percentage distribution of parents according to age, sex ,
education.

F %
Age Below 20 years 6 10%
21-30 years 24 40%
31-40 years 22 36.7%
40-50 years 8 13.3%

Total 60 100%
Sex Male 25 41.7%
Female 35 58.3%

Total 60 100%
Education Primary education 7 11.7%
Secondary education 24
U.G and above 29 40%
Illiterate 0 48.3%
0%
Total 60 100%
TABLE – 2 :
Frequency and percentage distribution of parents according to their
occupation, number of children, number of school going children.

F %
Occupation Private employee 25 41.7%
Government employee 7 11.7%
Self employee 15 25.0%
unemployee 13 21.0%

Total 60 100%
1 15 25.0%
Number of 2 29 48.3%
children 3 12 20.0%
More than 3 4 6.7%

Total 60 100%
Number of 1 26 43.3%
school going 2 25 41.7%
children 3 9 15.0%
More than 3 0 0.0%
Total 60 100%
TABLE – 3:
Frequency and percentage distribution of parents according to their habit of
junk food , habit of exercises, type of diet.

F %

Habit of junk Once in a week 21 35%

food Very often 23 38.3%
Never 6 10%
Daily 10 16.7%

Total 60 100%
Habit of Yes 29 48.3%
exercises No 31 51.7%

Total 60 100%
Type of diet Vegetarian 16 26.7%
Non vegetarian 40 66.7%
Eggeterian 4 6.7%

Total 60 100%

TABLE – 4:
Frequency and percentage distribution of parents according to their
children taking medications, out door play time, staple food.

F %
Children taking Yes 18 30%
medications No 42 70%

Total 60 100%
Out door play Morning 22 36.7%
time Afternoon 9 15%
Evening 29 48.3%
Night 0 0%
Not allowed 0 0%
Total 60 100%
Staple food Rice 51 85%
Chapatti 9 15%
Bread 0 0%

Total 60 100%

TABLE – 5 :
Frequency and percentage distribution of parents according to their
monthly income , habit of watching entertainment while eating, time spend
with children for activities.

Monthly income Below Rs 8000 per month 16 26.7%

Rs 8,0001 -10,000 per 17 28.3%
month
Rs 10,0001- 20,000 per 20 33.3%
month
Above 20,0001 per month 7 11.7%
Total 60 100%
Habit of watching Yes 53 88.3%
entertainment while No 7 11.7%
eating

Total 60 100 %
Time spend with Half an hour 10 16.7%
children for activities One hour 37 61.7%
More than one hour 13 21.7%
total 60 100%
Table – 6 :
Frequency and percentage distribution of knowledge level in pre test and
post test.
Knowledge Level
Average Total
Below Avg Above Avg
(33.4%-
(<= 33.3%) (>66.67%)
66.6%)

F 23 37 0 60
Pre test
% 38.3% 61.7% 0.0% 100.0%
Test
F 0 12 48 60
Post test
% 0.0% 20.0% 80.0% 100.0%
F 23 49 48 120
Total
% 19.2% 40.8% 40.0% 100.0%

Table – 7 :
Frequency and percentage distribution of attitude level in pre test and post
test.

Attitude Level
Total
Low Moderate High
F 18 42 0 60
Pre test
% 30.0% 70.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Test
F 0 13 47 60
Post test
% 0.0% 21.7% 78.3% 100.0%
F 18 55 47 120
Total
% 15.0% 45.8% 39.2% 100.0%