PMID- 11850981
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20020319
LR  - 20161124
IS  - 0030-9982 (Print)
IS  - 0030-9982 (Linking)
VI  - 51
IP  - 12
DP  - 2001 Dec
TI  - Urbanisation and health related knowledge and attitudes of South Asian children.
PG  - 437-43
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To study the differences in health related knowledge and attitudes of 
      less and more urbanised 10-12 year old South Asian school children. METHOD: A 
      total of 589 Asian children living in UK and in Pakistan were studied. Three 
      groups of children were recruited from Punjab, Pakistan: rural (RrP, n = 100), 
      middle income urban (MUP, n = 148) and high income urban (HUP, n = 159) and they 
      were assigned urbanization rank (UR) 1, 2 and 3. Another two groups of children 
      were recruited from Slough, UK: British Pakistani (BrP, n = 110) and British 
      Indian (Brl, n = 71) and they were assigned urbanization rank 4 and 5 
      respectively. Information about Cardiovascular Health (CVH) related knowledge, 
      Health Locus of Control (HLC), smoking behaviour, self-perception of bodyweight 
      and self-perception of activity level was collected through questionnaire. Actual 
      weight status was judged by measuring body height and weight. Actual Physical 
      Activity Level (PAL) was calculated from three day activity records kept by 
      children. RESULTS: In general health related knowledge improved with urbanisation 
      status. In all groups girls scored better on knowledge test than boys from the 
      same group. HLC scores increased (indicate higher level of internal locus of 
      control) steadily with urbanisation from UR 1-3. In most groups girls had 
      slightly lower HLC scores. Smoking intentions were not related to UR. Validity of 
      perceptions slightly improved with urbanisation rank only for activity level. 
      CONCLUSION: Due to lack of knowledge and belief in external health locus of 
      control, behaviour modification is likely to harder in less urbanized Pakistani 
      groups. For the prevention of disease, efforts are required not only to increase 
      the children's knowledge about health but also to increase awareness and 
      understanding of healthy body weight, physical activity, hazards of smoking and 
      to inculate belief in internal control over own health.
FAU - Hakeem, R
AU  - Hakeem R
AD  - Department of Food and Nutrition, RLAK Government College of Home Economics, 
      Karachi.
FAU - Thomas, J
AU  - Thomas J
FAU - Badruddin, S H
AU  - Badruddin SH
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Pakistan
TA  - J Pak Med Assoc
JT  - JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
JID - 7501162
SB  - IM
EIN - J Pak Med Assoc 2002 Jan;52(1):51
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Cardiovascular Diseases
MH  - Child
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Behavior/*ethnology
MH  - *Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
MH  - Humans
MH  - India/ethnology
MH  - *Internal-External Control
MH  - Male
MH  - Pakistan/ethnology
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - United Kingdom/ethnology
MH  - *Urbanization
EDAT- 2002/02/20 10:00
MHDA- 2002/03/20 10:01
CRDT- 2002/02/20 10:00
PHST- 2002/02/20 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2002/03/20 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2002/02/20 10:00 [entrez]
AID - 2845 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Pak Med Assoc. 2001 Dec;51(12):437-43.