Mental Health Problem in Relation to Eating Habits of Purba Mednipur College Students

Mental health problems is a term that refers to a set of medical conditions that affect a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily working. This includes a comprehensive range of conditions such as depression and anxiety, drug and alcohol abuse and schizophrenia. Mental health problems are enormously common in all countries of the world. The purpose of the study were to compare the mental health and eating habit of the subjects to find out is there any relation between mental health and eating habit to compare the subject’s anxiety in relation with eating habits to compare the subject’s depression in relation with eating habit to compare the subject’s behavioral pattern in relation with eating habit. Three hundred ninety-eight (398) college students (male and female) were selected randomly from Mugberia Gangadhar Mahavidyalaya, Bhupatinagar, Purba Medinipur subject for the study. Selected variables were measured with the help of questionnaire such as mental health inventory, mental health anxiety, mental health depression, mental health behavioral control mental health positive effect, eating habit. Result reveals that the subjects eating habit have a positive correlation with mental health inventory, mental health anxiety sand mental health positive behavioral control.