Eating Habits Of Female Adolescent Students At Selected Senior High Schools At Asuogyaman District

Abstract

This study is aimed at exploring eating habits of female adolescent students of some selected schools in the Asuogyaman District. Factors such as individual, environmental, social, and other school related factors impact heavily eating habits of students and these factors could have negative implications on the health of female adolescent students in school and even after their education. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The lottery method under the simple random sampling method was used to select three schools out of six and a sample size of 535 respondents was also chosen through the simple random sampling technique from a population of 1,010 female adolescent students from three selected schools within the district. Generally, the study can conclude that, female adolescent students of Asuogyaman district do not practice good eating habits since majority of them skip their meals. They were also aware poor eating practices could lead to poor academic performance and long-term health complications. Based on the findings, this study recommends that school authorities put in place corrective measures in the form of punishment to discourage the continuation of poor eating practices. Regular nutritional surveillance to monitor meals served in the dining hall to find out whether the quality meets the nutritional requirement and if not measures put in place to correct it and that could significantly be of great help to the female adolescent students. To a large extent this practice will go to highlight all benefits of consuming quality meal to the female adolescent students.