Abstract

AWARENESS OF EATING DISORDER IN DIFFERENT AGE GROUP OF FEMALE OF KARACHI

Dr. Amber Nawab, Sidra Ghayas, Javeria Sheikh, Misbah Ansari, Mizna Iqbal

Abstract

Background: An effort is done to accomplish an awareness related to eating disorder to preserve a valuable health condition of population through a research based article. Objective: An eating disorder like a contamination spreading in the world through leaps and bounds is taken as for granted cause which affects the population’s normal and steady health. It is like a bug which is taken out the well being of people. So here the need is to nip this threat to mankind by leading a healthy life style which can be achieved by appropriate adaptation of eating habit, acquire balance diet and so on. Methodology: The research based study is conducted on female gender of different ages they were divided into two groups 1st group carry girls with 15-20 age and 2nd group was consisting of women with age 20-40. These groups were supplied with a questionnaire which consists of several interrogations related to their eating habit they fill their queries and submitted back on that data statics were applied to figure out the result. Result: The outcomes of research displays that only handful number of females are considering their health as prior and are little aware of eating disorder and are anxious about it while, remaining are totally unaware of eating disorder term. Conclusion: The female gender being an elemental part of population is not very well aware of the term “eating disorder” because may be due to certain reasons like there close environment, illiteracy, carelessness, unsocialized, busy life style, hectic schedule etc. The need here is arise to supply knowledge to them by health care professionals via any medium because an eating disorder has a multi effects on individual’s health.

Keywords: Eating disorder, balance diet, female gender.