Health style between Indian and foreign female students of Delhi State

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare the health style between Indian and Foreign female students of Delhi State. To achieve the objective of the study, two hundred (N=200) Indian female students and two hundred (N=200) Foreign female students between 17 to 25 years were selected conveniently and purposively from the regular students of different Universities and Colleges of Delhi State as subjects. Health Style Questionnaire (USDHHS, 1999) was used to assess health style of students. To determine the significant difference between the mean scores of Indian and Foreign female students on health style, ‘t’ test was employed. The level of significance was set at 0.05. Results of the study revealed that there were no significant differences found on physical health, intellectual health and occupational health between Indian female and foreign female students of Delhi State. However, significant differences were found on social health, emotional health, environmental health and spiritual health.