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EFFECTS OF OBESITY ON HOUSEHOLD LIFE OF WOMEN IN CITY OF DERA GHAZI KHAN

Shazia Mehmood1, Farhan Riaz Bhutta1, Rashid Mehmood1, Zaighum Abbas2 Muhammad Shahzad1
1
Department of Sociology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, 2Department of Sociology,
Bahuddin Zakria University Multan
Corresponding Author:
Shazia Mehmood
PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi
Shaziamehmood5@hotmail.com
Abstract: The overweight and weight are the fifth driving danger for worldwide deaths. Unfriendly health results are
connected with overweight and obesity. 33% of grown-ups in Pakistan are overweight or large, and the sexual
orientation hole in abundance weight is enlarging, with a bigger number of ladies putting on weight than men. An
evaluation proposes that 26 percent of ladies and 19 percent of men in Pakistan are fat or obese. The reason of this
research was to explore behavior and approach of obese women towards their household work. The sample of 200
obese women was selected by purposive sampling from women living in Dera Ghazi Khan City. These respondents were
interviewed by semi- structured interview schedule. The researcher found that majority of obese women was not
interested in household work. They were not able to serve their family members. Obesity makes them dull that they
were only willing to do household work if there is no one else to do the particular work and therefore they had high
rate of obesity.

Key Words: Obesity, Women, Social Life, Household Work, Challenges

INTRODUCTION
Stoutness is a main preventable reason for death
around the world, with expanding commonness in
grown-ups and kids, and powers view it as a
standout amongst the most genuine general
wellbeing issues of the 21st century (Barness 2007).
The Greeks were the first to perceive obese as a
medical issue. The Indian specialist Sushruta related
obesity to diabetes and heart issue. He prescribed
physical work to help cure it and its side effects. For
the vast majority of mankind's history humankind
battled with food scarcity. Obesity has therefore
verifiably been seen as an indication of riches and
flourishing. It was basic among high authorities in
Europe in the medieval times and in addition in
Ancient East Asian civic establishments.
With the onset of the modern upheaval it was
understood that the military and monetary may of
countries were reliant on both the body size and
quality of their troopers and specialists. Expanding
the normal body mass record from what is
currently viewed as underweight to what is
presently the ordinary extent assumed a
noteworthy part in the advancement of
industrialized social orders. Obesity and weight in
this manner both expanded through the nineteenth
century in the created world. Amid the twentieth
century, as populaces came to their hereditary
potential for tallness, weight started expanding a

great deal more than stature bringing about

obesity. In the 1950s expanding riches in the
created world diminished youngster mortality, yet
as body weight expanded heart and kidney illness
turned out to be more basic (Breslow 1952).
In Pakistan, overabundance weight is regularly
viewed as ugly, and obesity is generally connected
with different negative generalizations. Individuals
of all ages can confront social vilification, and may
be focused by spooks or evaded by their
companions. Obesity is at the end of the day an
explanation behind segregation (Puhl 2001).
Open discernments in Pakistan with respect to solid
body weight vary from those in regards to the
weight that is viewed as perfect and both have
changed following the start of the twentieth
century. The weight that is seen as a perfect has
ended up lower subsequent to the 1920s. Then
again, individuals' perspectives concerning sound
weight have altered in the inverse course. In
Pakistan the weight at which individuals viewed
themselves as to be overweight was altogether
higher in 2007 than in 1999. These progressions are
accepted to be because of expanding rates of
adiposity prompting expanded acknowledgment of
additional muscle to fat ratio ratios as being typical
(Johnso 2008).
Obesity is a medical condition in which
overabundance muscle to fat ratio ratios has

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aggregated to the degree that it may have an

unfavorable impact on health, prompting
decreased future and/or expanded wellbeing issues
(Haslam 2005).
Obesity improves the probability of different
ailments, especially coronary illness, diabetes and
growth. Obesity is most usually brought on by a
blend of over the top sustenance vitality admission,
absence of physical movement, and hereditary
weakness, in spite of the fact that a couple cases
are created basically by qualities, meds or
psychiatric disease. Proof to bolster the perspective
that some obese individuals eat little yet put on
weight because of a moderate digestion system is
constrained; all things considered obese individuals
have a more noteworthy vitality consumption than
their slim partners because of the vitality needed to
keep up an expanded body mass (Adams 2000).
Counting calories and physical activity are the
pillars of treatment for weight. Also, it is critical to
enhance diet quality by lessening the utilization of
vitality thick sustenances, for example, those high
in fat and sugars, and by expanding the admission
of dietary fiber. To supplement this, or if there
should arise an occurrence of disappointment, anti
obese medications may be taken to decrease
craving or restrain fat retention (Imaz 2008).
Obesity in Pakistan is a health issue that has pulled
in concern in the previous couple of years.
Urbanization and a horrible, vitality thick eating
routine (the high vicinity of oil and fats in Pakistani
cooking), and additionally evolving ways of life, are
among the main drivers adding to obese in the
nation. As indicated by a rundown of the world's
"fattest nations" distributed on Forbes, Pakistan is
positioned 165 (out of 194 nations) as far as its
overweight populace, with 22.2% of people beyond
15 years old intersection the edge of obesity (Streib
2007). This proportion generally compares with
different studies, which express one-in-four
Pakistani grown-ups as being overweight.
Ongoing increases in women obesity have turned
into a genuine social issue. They concentrated on
the family procedures of ladies and figure out that
family procedures put ladies at danger and to
outline the family unit environment, family
convictions, and lady qualities of obese and nonobesity ladies. They proposed that endeavors to
control ladies weight ought to address enhancing
family learning of ladies nourishment and
diminishing ladies TV seeing .
Body mass record, an estimation which thinks
about weight and height, characterizes individuals
as overweight (pre-large) if their Body Mass.
Obesity and weight table is connected in annexure.

We can utilize this table to focus our determining

so as to rat where the lines from our present
tallness and weight converge.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The proposed research was carried out in the city of
Dera Ghazi Khan to know about the effect of
obesity on women while doing household and daily
routine life work. The sample of two hundred obese
women was selected by using the purposive
sampling technique. An interview schedule was
developed in the light of the objectives of the study
and the questions in the in the interview schedule
were semi structured. Then gathered data was
analyzed through SPSS and their drawn results can
be seen in the below chapter.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The goal of the research was to communicate with
the respondents and to dig up their responses
regarding the significant focus to know about the
issues of obese women while doing the household
work at their home in the spot light of the
objectives
Table. 1: Kind of Difficulties Faced

Responses
Frequency Percentage
Lack of energy
3
1.5%
Changes in physical
16
8.0%
appearance
Hypertension
27
13.5%
Joints pain
29
14.5%
Shortness of breathe
12
6.0%
All of above
96
48.0%
Any other
17
8.5%
Total
200
100
The table shows that 48.0 percent of the
respondents face All difficulties including lack of
energy, changes in physical appearance,
hypertension, Joints pain (Arthralgia) and shortness
of breath in doing household work, 14.5 percent of
the respondents face Joints pain (Arthralgia) in
doing household work, 13.5 percent of the
respondents face Hypertension in doing household
work, 8.5 percent of the respondents face other
difficulties in doing household work like pain in
back and problem in sitting and standing, 8.0
percent of the respondents face changes in physical
appearance in doing household work, 6.0 percent
of the respondents face Shortness of breath in
doing household work and 1.5 percent of the
respondents face Lack of energy in doing household
work. Concluding the above we can say that women
who are obese have to face various kinds of
difficulties in doing household work.

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Table. 2: Boredom Felt in Doing Household Work

Responses
Frequency
Percentage
Strongly agree
99
49.5%
Agree
65
32.5%
Neutral
25
12.5%
Disagree
4
2.0%
Strongly disagree
7
3.5%
Total
120
100
The table demonstrate that 49.5 percent of the
respondents said that they were strongly agreed
that they face boredom in doing household work,
32.5 percent of the respondents said that they
were agreed that they face boredom in doing
household work, 12.5 percent of the respondents
said that they were neutral that they face boredom
in doing household work, 2.0 percent of the
respondents said that they were Disagreed that
they face boredom in doing household work and
3.5 percent of the respondents said that they were
Strongly Disagreed that they face boredom in doing
household work. Concluding the above we can say
that majority of obese women feel boredom in
doing household work. Which means a large
amount of population of respondents gave their
opinion in the form of strongly agree with above
mention statement? Against it only few people
were there.
Table. 3: Demographic Distribution of Respondents

Education
Illiterate
Primary
Metric
Graduation
Total
Marital Status
Unmarried
Married
Divorced
Widow
Separated
Total

Frequency
70
85
35
10
200

Percentage
35.0%
42.5%
17.5%
5.0%
100

20
145
15
20
0
200

10%
72.5%
7.5%
10%
0%
100

Age
25-34
15
7.5%
35-44
9
4.5%
45-55
103
51.5%
Above 55
73
36.5%
Total
200
100
Family Type
Joint
145
72.5%
Nuclear
55
27.5%
Total
200
100
Table illustrates that 35 percent of the respondent
have no education at all. And 42.5% of the
respondents have education level of primary, 17.5%
of the respondents have education level of Metric
and 5.0% of the respondents have education level
of graduation and above. Concluding the above we
can say that as most of the respondents were
above age of 45 years and all of them were female
so they have less education.
Table explains that 72.5% of the respondents were
married, 10.0 percent of the respondents were
unmarried, 10.0 percent of the respondents were
widow, 7.5 percent of the respondents were
divorced and 0.0 percent of the respondents were
separated. Concluding the above we can say that
most of respondents were married.
Table reflects that 51.5 percent of the respondents
were between the age of 44-55 years, 36.5 percent
of the respondents were Above 55 years, 7.5
percent of the respondents were between the age
of 25-34 years and 4.5 percent of the respondents
were between the age of 35-44 years. Concluding
the above we can say that majority of the obese
women were above the age of 45 years.
Table exposes 72.5 percent of the respondents
were living in Joint family while remaining 27.5
percent of the respondents were living in Nuclear
family. Concluding the above we can say that
combined family structure is still prevailing inside
targeted area where this research was
accomplished.

Table. 4: Distribution of respondents regarding

Their ability to serve family member

Difficulty faced in doing household work

Responses
Frequency
Percentage
Frequency
Percentage
To greater extent
76
38%
123
61.5%
To some extent
44
22%
64
32.0%
Not at all
80
40%
13
6.5%
Total
200
100
200
100
Table indicates that 40.0 percent of the respondents said that they were not able to serve their family
members at all, 22 percent of the respondents said that they were able to serve their family members to
some extent and 38.0 percent of the respondents said that they were able to serve their family members to
great extent. Concluding the above we can say that obesity affects the womens ability to serve their family
members.

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Table 5: Boredom felt in doing household work and Marital Status

Table designate that 61.5 percent of the respondents said that they were facing difficulty in doing household
work to great extent, 32.0 percent of the respondents said that they were facing difficulty in doing
household work to some extent and 6.5 percent of the respondents said that they were not facing difficulty
in doing household work at all. Concluding the above we can say that obesity creates difficulty for women in
doing house work.
The association between Boredom felt in doing household work and Marital Status
Unmarried Married Divorced Widow Separated
Strongly agree

boredom felt in doing household work

% within boredom
felt in doing
household work
Agree
% within boredom
felt in doing
household work
Neutral
% within boredom
felt in doing
household work
Disagree
% within boredom
felt in doing
household work
Strongly disagree
% within boredom
felt in doing
household work
Total

Total

20
20.2%

44
44.4%

15
15.2%

20
20.2%

0
.0%

99
100.0%

0
.0%

65
100.0%

0
.0%

0
.0%

0
.0%

65
100.0%

0
.0%

25
100.0%

0
.0%

0
.0%

0
.0%

25
100.0%

0
.0%

4
100.0%

0
.0%

0
.0%

0
.0%

4
100.0%

0
.0%

7
100.0%

0
.0%

0
.0%

0
.0%

7
100.0%

20
10.0%

145
72.5%

15
7.5%

20
10.0%

0
.0%

200
100.0%

% within boredom
felt in doing
household work
Pearson Chi-Square value = 77.395a
df = 12
Asym. Sig. (2-Sided) = .000**
** = Highly Significant
Concluded that the relationship between these variables is highly significant and the alternative hypothesis
is accepted because the P-value is 0.000. This table illustrates that there is an association between the two
variables (Boredom felt in doing household work / Marital Status).
Table. 6: The Association between Education and difficulty faced in doing Household Work
Education
Difficulty Faced in Doing Household Work
Illiterate
Primary
Matric
Graduation
Total

To Great Extent
70
53
0
0

To Some Extent
0
19
35
10

Not at All
0
13
0
0

Total
70
85
35
10

123

64

13

200

Chi-Square value = 152.041a

df = 6
P-value = .000**
** = Highly Significant
Table 6 explains the product from the cross tabulation of the two variables, those are education and
difficulty faced in doing household work, resulted that the relationship between the two variables is highly
significant and the alternative hypothesis is accepted because the p-value is .000. Table represents that
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there is association between the selected tow variables (Education and difficulty faced in doing household
work). This test was applied by using SPSS.
Table. 7: The Association between Kind of difficulties faced in doing Household Work and Family Type

Kind of difficulties
faced in doing
household work

Family Type
Joint

Nuclear

Total

lack of energy

Changes in physical appearance

16

16

Hypertension

27

27

Joint pain

20

29

shortness of breathe

12

12

All of above

96

96

Any other

17

17

Total
145
55
200
Chi-Square value = 168.868a
df = 6
P-value = .000**
** = Highly Significant
On top of table explains product from the cross tabulation of the two variables, those are family type and
difficulty faced in doing household work, resulted that the liaison among the two variables is highly
significant and the alternative hypothesis is accepted because the p-value is .000. Chart represents that
there is union between the selected tow variables (Education and difficulty faced in doing household work) is
highly significant.
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