Awareness Of Exercise Deficit Disorder And Its Prevention Among Parents Of School-Children Using Dichtomatous Questionnaire: A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Introduction: Exercise deficit disorder (EDD) describe as low level of physical activity in children and adolescents needed for the normal growth. Even in mealy absence in medication and any treatment lack of physical activity courses different ill effects on the body. childhood obesity, type 2 diabetes, lack of basis strength, similar to muscle dystrophy are some of the problems that may be observed. Hence to avoid most regular basic physical activity in growing age in compulsory. Knowledge of parents care takers and teachers plays important role in stimulating the children’s. The approach basically depends on the knowledge of how parents make children make understand the importance if the daily basic physical activity.  Therefore, the aim of the present study was to find awareness of Exercise Deficit Disorder in parents of school-going children and how to prevent it.

Method: 18 months cross sectional online mode survey was conducted to evaluate the awareness in parents of school-going children of age between 6- 12 years about exercise deficit disorder and methods of its prevention.

Results: 20 Questions were asked in which IO questions were based on the awareness and the other IO were on prevention of exercise deficit disorder. The content validity was found to be satisfactory by construct validity. Other gender distribution and question interpretation was also done by statistics

Conclusion: In our study we concluded that, out of 269 Subject who participated in this study, 65.3% of population is not aware regarding the concept of Exercise Deficit Disorder as well as it's methods of prevention.