Abstract:
This study is aimed at exploring eating habits of female adolescent students of
some selected schools in the Asuogyaman District. Factors such as individual,
environmental, social, and other school related factors impact heavily eating
habits of students and these factors could have negative implications on the
health of female adolescent students in school and even after their education.
The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The lottery method
under the simple random sampling method was used to select three schools out
of six and a sample size of 535 respondents was also chosen through the simple
random sampling technique from a population of 1,010 female adolescent
students from three selected schools within the district. Generally, the study can
conclude that, female adolescent students of Asuogyaman district do not
practice good eating habits since majority of them skip their meals. They were
also aware poor eating practices could lead to poor academic performance and
long-term health complications. Based on the findings, this study recommends
that school authorities put in place corrective measures in the form of
punishment to discourage the continuation of poor eating practices. Regular
nutritional surveillance to monitor meals served in the dining hall to find out
whether the quality meets the nutritional requirement and if not measures put in
place to correct it and that could significantly be of great help to the female
adolescent students. To a large extent this practice will go to highlight all
benefits of consuming quality meal to the female adolescent students.
