A Study to Assess the level of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Healthy Lifestyle Among Garden workers

Abstract

The analytical cross sectional survey research design was adopted for the study to assess the level of knowledge, attitude and practice regarding healthy lifestyle among garden workers ,to find out the association between level of knowledge, attitude and practice on healthy lifestyle among garden workers with selected socio demographic variables. convenient sampling technique was adopted to select 52 employees working in the garden at selected tertiary health care centre, Puducherry. after obtaining informed consent data were collected, by using structured interview schedule questionnaire over a period of one week in March 2022. Among 52 samples of garden workers 2 (3.8%) has adequate knowledge, 27(51.9%) has moderately adequate knowledge and 23 (44.2%) has inadequate knowledge; 4 (7.7%) has favorable attitude, 43 (82.7%) has moderately favorable attitude and 5 (9.6)% has unfavorable attitude; 21 (40.4%) has good practice, 27 (51.9%) has average practice and 4 (7.7%) has poor practice regarding healthy lifestyle. Mean and standard deviation of knowledge is 12.96 ± SD 3.199 with p value .158, attitude is 45.98 ± SD 6.755 with p value .324 and practice is 10.79 ± SD 2.136 with p value .971 shows that there is no correlation between the level of knowledge, attitude and practice regarding healthy lifestyle among garden workers.The overall findings of the study revealed that promoting healthy lifestyle practices in work place is vital towards preventing chronic lifestyle related diseases.