IMPACT OF COUNSELING ON RISK OF METABOLIC SYNDROME AMONG THE WORKING YOUTH IN THE AGE GROUP OF 20-30 YEARS

Maya Jhanwar; Dr. Munira Husain

Volume : VII, Issue : IX, September - 2018

IMPACT OF COUNSELING ON RISK OF METABOLIC SYNDROME AMONG THE WORKING YOUTH IN THE AGE GROUP OF 20-30 YEARS

Maya Jhanwar, Dr. Munira Husain

Abstract :

The young employees are at increasing risk of metabolic syndrome because lack of physical activities, changes in dietary patterns etc. 100 youth who were further equally divided into control and experimental group were selected by getting their consent and ethical clearance.The information regarding physical activity, nutritional status, and dietary habits were collected at the onset and after a lap of 6 months of the experimental intervention. The results showed significant increase in the mean scores of physical activity (13.84-13.86), beverage intake (24.00-25.16), snacks intake (27.14-30.26), and food group intake (22.74-24.70) in experimental group. The percentage of youths had decreased significantly from 16% to 14% in high risk, 62% to 36% in low risk, 50% to 22% in moderate risk of metabolic syndrome at post test level. So, lifestyle and dietary modification has proved a sustainable tool in inging down risk of metabolic syndrome among working youth.