SURVEY ON AWARENESS OF OPTIMUM PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN ADULTS OF CHANDIGARH, PANCHKULA AND MOHALI

Shaurya Deep Bajwa*,Sarvesh Bassi

Grewal Eye Institute, Chandigarh, India

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Shaurya Deep Bajwa, Sarvesh Bassi, 2019. Survey on awareness of optimum physical activity in adults of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali. Journal of medical pharmaceutical and allied sciences, V 8 - I 5, Pages - 2338 – 2346. Doi: https://doi.org/10.55522/jmpas.V8I5.870.

ABSTRACT

Interventions and awareness drives to promote physical activity have had limited outcomes. Most of the time people are unaware that the routine they are following is unhealthy and they need to do something about it. Regularly participating in physical activities can have various well known benefits. The purpose of this study is to assess the physical activity awareness among adults of Chandigarh tricity. This is a survey based study of up to 6 months. Questionnaire was prepared to conduct the survey and 102 participants were included in this study. Out of the 102 participants, 51 (50%) took part in leisure-time physical activity. Higher proportion of females (63%) were physically inactive than males (41%). Participants who were in service were more involved in physical activity (67%), while students showed lowest levels of participation (25%). Major barriers faced were lack of interest (40.3%), lack of time (48%), lack of motivation (47%), and study/work overload (41.2%). We found statistically significant association between physical activity participation and gender along with occupation.

Keywords:

Physical activity,
Chandigarh, Adults, Questionnaire

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