Prevalence and reason of breakfast skipping among hostelers Shobhita1,*, Tanushri2, Jasmeet Bhullar3 1Tutor, Saraswati Nursing Institute, Dhianpura, Kurali 2Tutor, Gian Sagar College Ram Nagar, Patiala 3Assoc. Professor Gian Sagar College, Ram Nagar, Patiala *Address for correspondence Ms. Shobita, Tutor, Saraswati Nursing Institute, Dhianpura, Kurali, Mobile: 8580825122, Email: sg9780309858@gqmail.com
Online published on 8 June, 2021. Abstract Introduction Breakfast is an important tool in maintaining effective cognitive function. It helps to improve college performance, attention span, problem solving and memory. If you skip breakfast, you may also be depriving your body of adequate nutrition. Diabetes organization reports that breakfast skipper tends to be deficient in minerals such as calcium & vitamin. Breakfast skipping is relatively common among adolescents. Skippers were more likely to be dissatisfied with their body shape and to have been on a diet to lose weight than were those who ate breakfast. Aim To determine the prevalence of breakfast skipping among the hostellers of Saraswati Nursing Institute Dhainpura, Kurali to find out the reason for breakfast skipping. Material and Methods A descriptive approach and non-experimental design was used. Study was conducted to assess the prevalence and reason of breakfast skipping among hostellers. Checklist was used to assess the prevalence and reason of breakfast skipping which contains 15 items. The sample size was 120 and convenience sampling technique was used for data collection. Result Findings shows that majority of subjects that is 29.1%(day 1),17.5%(day 2) 15.8% (day 3) ,11.6% (day 4) ,10%(day 5) and 8.3% day (day 6 and 7) were skipping breakfast. Reason for skipping breakfast is that majority 48.3% students said that food was not tasty; nearly one-third 34.1% students said that preparation was unhygienic and 9.1% students said that they were on dieting. Conculsion The study concluded that majority of the students were in the age group of 17 - 20 years, vegetarians, having no medical illness, the students are skipping breakfast because they find the food tasteless, and unhygienic. Some subjects can't eat in the morning and the others skip it because of the excess oil found in the food. Top Keywords Assess, Prevalence, Reason, Breakfast skipping, Hostellers. Top |