Saravana Prabha R. ¹, Archana Mani Malathi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Physical Education, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore - 641 043, IN

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to understand the precocious puberty through educational intervention towards physical activity and nutritional concerns. The selected 120 tween girls (Pre-Pubertal) were randomly divided into two groups namely experimental group (PNP) and control group. Each group consist of 60 girls (n=60). Girls who were interested in educational intervention on physical activity and nutritional concerns to prevent precocious puberty were selected as subjects. From each school, two groups namely - control and experimental groups were taken as per the students’ as per their interest. Experimental group underwent PNP training for a period of 6 weeks with the help of the comprehensive module. The control group did not participate in any intervention apart from their regular program of the curriculum. School based educational intervention programme on pre-adolescent’s physical fitness and nutritional fitness can be effective and an important way of enhancing pre-adolescent girls’ knowledge attitude and practice on their physical and nutritional fitness in preventing precocious puberty. Need for School based training on sensitive issues especially for girls can be included in the curriculum. Similar studies can be conducted in wider scale to create awareness among the tween girls with scheduled training and traditional recipes. Educational interventions are found to be effective in bringing changes among the group of girls than in individual. Schools can encourage such intervention programmes.

Keywords

Precocious, Puberty, Intervention, Physical Fitness, Nutritional Fitness, Module.

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