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THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS ON THE HEALTHY PRACTICES AMONG

THE GRADE 11 STUDENTS OF GENERAL SANTOS CITY
SPED INTEGRATED SCHOOL

A Research Presented to the Senior High School Department

General Santos City SPED Integrated School
General Santos City

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the

Senior High School

By

Romeo C. Balaballl
Carllyle Cuenca
Joan D. Alisoso

March 2018
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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
General Santos City SPED INTEGRATED SCHOOL
San Isidro, General Santos City

Certificate of Approval
In partial fulfilment of the requirements for Senior High School, this research
entitled, “LEVEL OF AWARENESS ON THE HEALTHY PRACTICESAMONG THE
GRADE 11 STUDENTS OF GENERAL SANTOS CITY SPED INTEGRATED
SCHOOL” Prepared byRomeo C. Balaballl, Carllyle Cuenca, Joan D. Alisoso is hereby
recommended for approval and acceptance.

Lourdes O. Decrepito
Practical research Teacher

Arlyn Bautista
Research Project Teacher

Approved by the Research Defense Panel

Justin Mark B. Tubao

JellysSarabillo Mechelle J. Tubao

Accepted as partial fulfilment of the requirements for Senior High School.

Janice C. Antonio
Grade 12 Curriculum Head
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to express our deep gratitude to Teacher Lourdes Decrepito

and Teacher Arlyn Bautista, for their patient guidance, enthusiastic encouragement

and useful critiques of this research work, for their advice and assistance in keeping

our progress on schedule.

Our grateful thanks are also extended for the GSC Sped students and faculty

members in participating for answering our questionnaires and for Teacher Myrna

Gornez the Grade 11 Chairman for approving us in conducting our data gatherings.

We would also like to extend our thanks to our school department for their

help in allowing us to conduct our data gathering in the GSC Sped Integrated

school.

Finally, we wish to thank our parents, adviser, classmates and friends for

their support and encouragement throughout our study.

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ABSTRACT

This research shows the Healthy Practices of the teenagers at the same time it

shows the teenagers level of awareness. This aimed to sought the awareness and

healthy lifestyle of the Grade 11 students of GSC SPED Integrated School. The

quantitative methods were utilized to determine the level of Awareness and Healthy

Practices. Quantitative method emphasizes objective measurements and the

statistical, mathematical, or numerical analysis of data collected through

questionnaires, and surveys, or by manipulating pre-existing statistical data using

computational techniques. The level of Awareness has a general average score of

3.75 which is interpret as high while the level of Healthy Practices has a general

average score of 3.02 which is interpret as moderate.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE i
APPROVAL SHEET ii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS iii
ABSTRACT iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS v
LIST OF TABLES vi
LIST OF FIGURES vii

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study 1
Review of Literature 2
Conceptual Framework 3
Statement of the Problem 4
Hypotheses 5
Significance of the Study 6

CHAPTER II METHOD
Design 7
Setting 8
Participants 9
Measures 10
Definition of Terms 11
Procedure 12
Limitations of the Study 13

CHAPTER III RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 14

CHAPTER IV SUMMARY, CONCLUSION,

AND RECOMMENDATION 15

REFERENCES 16

APPENDICES

Appendix A Letter for Recommendations

Appendix B Letter for Respondents
Appendix C Questionnaire
Appendix D Letter for Approval
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LIST OF TABLES

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Table 1 Likert Scale for Level of Awareness 8

Table 2 Likert Scale for Level of Healthy Practices 8

Table 3 Level of Awareness on Healthy Practices 11

Table 4 Level of Healthy Practices 12

Table 5 Significant relationship between level of Awareness 14

and Healthy Practices

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LIST OF FIGURES

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Conceptual Framework 3