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Brijesh Patel
Smruti
Chirag Jain
A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding ill effects of junk foods among students in selected constituents of charusat, changa with objective to assess the existing knowledge regarding ill effect of junk food and to find association between selected demographics variables and knowledge of students regarding ill-effects of junk foods. Data collection is carried out through administering the self structured questionnaire. Majore finding of study was the finding revealed that 51.7% (31) of students had good knowledge regarding ill effects of junk foods, 43.3% (26) of students had average knowledge, and 5% (3) had poor knowledge regarding ill effects of junk foods. The finding reveals that the variables age, gender, income, previous source of information about junk foods, and residence are in no relation with the knowledge regarding ill ef fect of junk foods (p value <0.05). Research study shows that students had adequate knowledge regarding ill effects of junk foods.
Keywords: Junk Foods, Constituents of Charusat University, Knowledge, Students