IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

NUTRITIONAL AWARENESS AMONG WOMEN PLAYERS FROM DIFFERENT AREAS OF ANDHRA PRADESH

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B.Uma Maheswari

Abstract

The foremost aim of physical education has been to inculcate a healthy mind in a healthy body. The aim of this study was to find out the differences in nutritional awareness among urban, semi urban and rural women players in Andhra Pradesh. The investigator administered a nutritional awareness questionnaire consisting of 25 statements among 50 rural women players; 50 semi urban women players and 50 urban women players of different disciplines. The filled up questionnaire were scored and the total scores for all the twenty five statements were considered as the nutritional awareness level of the subjects. The differences on nutritional awareness among urban, semi urban and rural women players were tested for statistical significance using ANOVA. In all cases 0.05 level was fixed to test the significance. The results proved that there were significant differences on nutritional awareness among urban, semi urban and rural women players (P <0.05) The paired mean comparisons proved that urban women players were having highest nutritional awareness (M: 86.86), followed by semi urban women players (M: 81.86) and then by rural women players (M: 79.48). The differences between urban and semi urban players and urban and rural women players were significant and there was no significant differences between semi urban and rural women players. The findings of this study proved that rural women players were significantly having lesser nutritional awareness and hence the study recommends the strong need of nutritional education for women players in the rural area.

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