A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING ANOREXIA NERVOSA AMONGADOLESCENT GIRLS STUDYING IN GOVT. P.G COLLEGE SOLAN (H.P) WITH A VIEW TO DEVELOP INFORMATIVE BOOKLET.

Anorexia Nervosa also known as just anorexia, is an eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa makes person obsesses about
food and weight. Person with this problem may have warped body image and see yourself as fat as even though you have a
very low body weight. Expert do not know what cause anorexia. It often begins as regular dieting. This problem affects more women than man
and its start during the teenage year. The number of young women between the age of 15-19 who have anorexia nervosa has increased every 10
years since 1930. of the study is to assess the knowledge regarding anorexia nervosa Aim among adolescent girls studying in Govt. P.G college
Solan (H.P) with a view to develop informative booklet. - Quantitative approach and Material and Method descriptive research design was
adopted for this study. The study was conducted among 145 adolescent girls selected by convenient sampling technique. Data were collected by
using 30 self-structured knowledge questionnaires regarding anorexia nervosa. Data was presented in tabulation and analyzed by descriptive and
inferential statistics. The nding of study revealed that out of 145 samples Results: maximum study sample 43.4% were in age group of 18 year
followed by 34.5% in 19 year and 21.1% are of 17-year adolescent girls. The study ndings shows that majority of subjects (77.9%) had poor
knowledge, 22.1% had average knowledge, 0.0% girls had good knowledge regarding anorexia nervosa. Chi square was used to nd out the
association of knowledge with their selected demographic variables. The mean knowledge score of study is 11.25+ 4.01 which is 37.49 of mean
difference On the basis of result the study concluded that adolescent girls Conclusion: had poor knowledge regarding anorexia nervosa and there
is need to provide more education so as to prevent the adolescent girls from the future consequences and informative booklet is also a useful
medium to bring the above stated condition in consideration.