Effect of Nutrition Education in Reducing Risks and Incidences of Heart Failure in Mahendragarh District of Haryana, India

Author: Raveena, Urvashi Nandal and Rekha Yadav

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Abstract

This study was conducted on middle aged (minimum age 40 years) male and female population of Mahendragarh district, Haryana. All of the subjects n=160 had some type of cardiac heath issue. The study population was equally divided into experimental and control group, n=80 in each category. Nutritional counseling was imparted at 0 day, 30th day and 60th day. There was observed a significant enhancement in the study subjects after the end of each counseling session. This study results support that informative nutritional counseling can be an effective tool in bringing health and heart related awareness among general population irrespective of their gender/age/class/educational status. And such tools can be an effective means to save millions of lives of people, eliminate burden on the health care system of the country, can make people actually wealthy (both financially – less expenditure on medical lab tests and surgical procedures carried out in case of heart blockage/attack; and physically- a healthy heart will lead to a healthy body). Overall, it can be said that it can add years of health and wellness in life of all (normally healthy, at risk, heart patients).

Keywords

Heart health, nutritional counseling, awareness, healthy lifestyle, knowledge gain

Conclusion

It can be concluded from the findings from the study that nutrition counseling can have a significant and beneficial effect on the knowledge levels of the experimental group, demonstrating a substantial increase across all knowledge periodic sessions. In contrast, the control group's knowledge levels remained relatively stagnant over the same period, highlighting the positive impact of nutrition counseling on enhancing knowledge among cardiac patients. On the contrary, in control group negligible changes were observed in knowledge levels over the same period, although to a lesser degree compared to the phase when the study began. The comparative results further validated research findings where in experimental group substantial augmentation was witnessed at all stages. In contrast, the control group exhibited minor changes in knowledge levels over the same period, which definitely raises an alarm indicating the importance of nutrition education about healthy eating/active lifestyle/deleterious effects of substance-liquor use among general masses of India including people in rural-remote area and those at the grass-root level.

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How to cite this article

Raveena, Urvashi Nandal and Rekha Yadav (2023). Effect of Nutrition Education in Reducing Risks and Incidences of Heart Failure in Mahendragarh District of Haryana, India. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(10): 1108-1112.