IMPACT OF TRAINING PROGRAMME ON HEALTH HAZARDS OF FAST-FOOD CONSUMPTION IN DEGREE STUDENTS AT TUMKUR, KARNATAKA

INTRODUCTION: Fast food is a quick preparing and serving food item which is enjoyed by all the age group Peoples are craving to have this kind of fast food due to its color, taste and attraction. In Children fast-food consumption ratio is very high Particularly 25 below age groups continues and long-term eating of fastfood consumption leads to many health hazards such as obesity, nutritional deficiency, hypertension, diabetes mellites and many more complications. So as to give awareness of ill effects of fast-food consumption is very important especially in the young generation due to their addiction for fast food OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY: To assess the level of knowledge regarding selected health hazards of fast-food consumption among degree students. To evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching program on knowledge regarding selected health hazards of fast-food consumption among degree students. To determine the association between post-test knowledge on health hazards of fast-food Consumption among degree students with their selected social demographic variables methodology A quantitative research approach was used. The data collected from the Degree students by using A pre- experimental one group pre- test post-test design was used and a convenient sampling technique was used to select 60 students of degree college for the study. RESULT: The study reveals that pre-test mean knowledge score was found to be 18.28 (52.24%) with standard deviation of 3.724 which indicates that the degree students had moderate knowledge regarding effects of fast food consumption in the pre-test after the administration of planned teaching programme, the mean post-test knowledge score were 28.88 (82.52%) with standard deviation of 3.783 which shows the enhancement in the knowledge level of degree students regarding health hazards of fast food consumption. It is evident that the mean enhancement of knowledge score was 30.4 and “t” value 14.979is greater than the table value both at 0.005 level of significance. therefore “t” value is found to be significant. Hence it is inferred that there is significant difference between the pre-test and post-test knowledge level of degree student regarding health hazards of fast-food consumption. CONCLUSION: This Study concluded that there is inadequate knowledge regarding selected health hazards of fast-food consumption among Degree college students in selected college at Tumkur.