Author(s): Zahid Mushtaq

Abstract:
Health Consciousness (HC) refers to the degree of readiness to undertake health actions previous studies proved that Health Consciousness (HC) influences health attitudes and behaviour. As stated above, it is believed that health conscious persons tend to be more involved with their health, which also includes searching for and using health information. Present study was intended to explore the level of health consciousness of male and female adolescents. The data for the present study consists of 60 respondents. Health Consciousness Scale (HCS) developed by N.V.V.S. Narayana (2009) was used for measuring the level of consciousness of secondary school adolescents. The collected data was subjected to statistical treatment by using Mean, Standard Deviation and ‘t’ test. Whole data was selected with the help of Random Sampling Technique (RST). In context to same, it was found that there exists no significant difference between male and female adolescents on composite score of health consciousness. Hence, investigator can inferred that gender seems insignificant impact on the level of health consciousness of the adolescents.

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