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Awareness on Physical, Mental, Emotional Consequences of Mouth Breathing - A Survey
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NANDITA.R , S. SANGEETHA, G. SRIDEVI
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Mouth breathing will be breathing through the mouth instead of the nose. Human newborn children are some of the time thought about committing nasal breathers, however as a rule sound people may inhale through their nose, their mouth, or both. During rest, breathing through the nose is normal for most people. Aim of the present study is to analyse the physical, mental, emotional consequences of mouth breathing. The present study is a cross sectional survey conducted among college students. The sample method is simple random. Self administered questionnaire was prepared from previous standard studies and it consists of questions related to mouth breathing. The questionnaire was distributed to the participants through an online survey link. The questionnaire was distributed among 100 participants. The data manipulation was done by tabulating the results in excel and statistics were obtained from SPSS. The Pearson Chi square test was also done. Out of the 100 participants, 53.5% of the participants are male while 46.5% of the participants are female .97.6% of the participants agreed that it is bad to be mouth breather while remaining aren’t aware. 55.9% of the participants are aware that mouth breathing doesn’t cause anxiety while 30.7% of the participants mouth breathing cause anxiety. Masahiro Sana concluded that 97.6% of the participants are aware that mouth breathing is bad for health (Masahiro Sana etal, 2018). Josiane Marques concluded that 58% of the participants are aware that mouth breathing is bad for health (Josiane Marques Felcar etal, 2010) which was an opposing finding. From this study, we concluded that 97.6% of the participants had knowledge about mouth breathing and the consequences of mouth breathing.
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Mouth breathing; sore throat; Hypertension; Anxiety; nasal cavity.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.281
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