Stress and Unhealthy Life Style Lead to High Risk Behaviour: A study in Sargodha, Pakistan

Authors

  • Maira Aslam
  • Babak Mahmood
  • Malik Muhammad Sohail

Abstract

Many researches proved that Stress leads to unhealthy life style. Sick role is also important when studying social aspect of disease, doctor and patient. This was a quantitative study aimed to explain those factors which threaten healthy life style and create high risk behaviour. A sample of 140 respondents was selected, from the district Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan. Questionnaire was used as tool of data collection. The result of study showed that factors like gender, socioeconomic status occupation and incomeeffect health behaviour of people. Poverty and lack of resources emerged as the main cause of unhealthy behaviour. 59% respondents were agreed that social stress causes many diseases.Majority of 69% respondents agreed that lower class (people with lower economic status) underutilizes health services. 45% respondents were agreed that some people may be attracted to be sick because they want to escape from normal responsibilities of life.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s1p399

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Published

2015-03-07

How to Cite

Stress and Unhealthy Life Style Lead to High Risk Behaviour: A study in Sargodha, Pakistan. (2015). Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 6(2 S1), 399. https://www.richtmann.org/journal/index.php/mjss/article/view/5913