“Attitute Of Physiotherapy Students Towards Obesity”

Abstract

Background : Obesity is a multifaceted disorder that is a result of genetic, behavioral, environmental, and physiological factors. It develops as a complex interaction between a person’s genes and the long-term energy imbalance attributable to excessive caloric consumption and insufficient energy expenditure¹ According to the World Health Organization definition of obesity, usually the amount of dietary energy, metabolism, and physical activity in cases where the amount of energy consumed by the body as a result of excess accumulation of fat is a disease that should be treated, In this project ‘The fat phobia scale’ is a screening tool designed to assess the attitude of person towards obesity, That is the Fat Phobia Scale (FPS) was developed and validated by Bacon, Scheltema, and Robinson (2001), and was used to determine students attitudes towards obese people.

Objective:

1. To find out various factors affecting Physiotherapy management for obese patients


2. To assess the difference about fat phobia between male and female Physiotherapy students.

Methodology: 208 participant was selected for the study by convenient sampling according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, questionier was given to all the participants

Result:

1. Results by considered first to final year students in which the final average is 2.91±0.40 Also, the result of first-year physiotherapy students having very high fat phobia that is 3.01±0.32 and final year students having less fat phobia that is 2.81±0.29.


2. Results by considered age of physiotherapy students in which most of students of DR.A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM COPT In which we considered students of 18 to 23 years of age, the final result of this is 3.891±0.471 the highest fat phobia is in age of 20 years old students i.e., 5.93±1.34 and less fat phobia is in 22years old students i.e, 2.87±0.3.


3. Results by considered gender males and females in which males are 47 and females are167,in percentage 22% are males students and 78%females  final score of males is 2.06±0.4 and females is 2.94±0.82.

Conclusion :. This study proved that the German short form of the FPS can be considered as a reliable and valid instrument for measuring the negative attitudes towards obese individual , Future investigations should address the calculation of reference values for other samples and settings including different occupational groups in healthcare.