SURVEY ON THE CONSUMPTION OF TEA AMONG STUDENTS.
Author: Manasvini Vadke, Punyashri Shetty and Ishrat Ansari
Introduction:
Caffeine is the most widely consumed behaviourally active substance in the world. Most of our daily caffeine consumption comes from coffee and tea. Tea has become an integral part of our culture and everyday life due to taste, together with a refreshing and mildly stimulant effect. Students may use this caffeine/tea to seek out the energy boost to enhance their activities, which is why understanding the habits of students on consumption of tea is important.
Objective:
To understand the underlying phenomenon of ‘Consumption of tea among students’.
Literature Review:
Tseng et al., (2014) The percentage of obesity in the tea-drinking group was higher than in the non-tea-drinking group. However, they made an observation that was contrary to the previous findings showing that community residents who had consumed tea for more than 10 years exhibited less body fat. In this study, tea drinking was also significantly associated with sugar-sweetened beverage consumption. Several studies have also suggested relationships between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, obesity, and metabolic syndrome. Both caffeine and tea flavonoids have been proved to be beneficial for weight control. Sweetened iced tea drinks have become very popular, and this may be one of the underlying provocative factors of metabolic syndrome. We hypothesized that the diverse results may be due to the different styles of tea preparation.
Jothi et.al., (2021) Habitual tea consumption is a very common scenario in Bangladesh. People start their day with hot tea sips. University students usually exposed to stresses due to their academic load. As a result of their overwhelming, stressful situations, students tend to cope with consuming caffeinated beverages, mostly teas. Teas usually contain 3% caffeine. It is a natural chemical which activates our central nervous system. Apart from this, caffeine is considered to be an addictive drug, and high caffeine consumption is known to have adverse effects, including an increase in blood pressure and sleep disturbances in adolescents. They described energy drinks including tea as the first choice for students to increase concentration and feel less tired during the examination period which is the positive association. In terms of quantity, the present study illustrated that most of the students take two cup of teas per day and 3-6 cups per week. High consumption of caffeinated beverages has been suggested as a factor that contributes negatively to sleep quality. The current study has shown similar frequencies of sugar and milk added with tea while consuming. That means trends have been shifted to young people from conventional tea consumption to the tea mixed with sugar syrup, milk, coffee or other fruit essences.
Data Collection:
For the problem ‘Consumption of tea among students’, we made a questionnaire consisting of five objective questions and surveyed 100 students on the Likert Scale (Strongly Disagree – Strongly Agree), scaled 1,2,3,4 and 5 with the help of Google Forms and compiled the data on Excel sheet.
Data Analysis:
For data analysis, we calculated the Mean (X), Standard Deviation (SD), Standard Error (SE) and t-stat (Z) values of each question, i.e. Question Number 1,2,3,4 and 5 in the Google Sheets. These statistical tools helped us form results and conclude our survey.
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Question -1 |
Question-2 |
Question-3 |
Question-4 |
Question-5 |
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Mean |
3.43 |
3.32 |
2.47 |
3.25 |
2.70 |
|
SD |
1.46 |
1.43 |
1.34 |
1.34 |
1.25 |
|
SE |
1.16 |
1.13 |
1.06 |
1.06 |
0.99 |
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Z |
0.84 |
0.67 |
-0.36 |
0.42 |
-0.32 |
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Results |
Neutral |
Neutral |
Neutral |
Neutral |
Neutral |
Result: The ‘Z’ value on each question determines the results as Neutral.
Conclusion:
Conclusion -1: People are neutral about ‘drinking tea regularly’.
Conclusion -2: People are neutral about ‘having more than one cup of tea daily’.
Conclusion -3: People are neutral about ‘craving tea multiple times a day’.
Conclusion -4: People are neutral about ‘preferring tea over other beverages’.
Conclusion -5: People are neutral about ‘negative impact of drinking tea on health’.
References:
- Jothi, Jakia & Rahman, Nahidur & Chakraborty, Anindya & Akther, Shireen. (2021). Prevalence of Tea Consumption among University Students of South-Eastern Region of Bangladesh and Associated Factors. Turkish Journal of Agriculture – Food Science and Technology. 9. 1357-1361. 10.24925/turjaf.v9i8.1357-1361.3976.
- Tseng, H.C., Wang, C.-J., Cheng, S.H., Sun, Z.-J., Chen, P.S., Lee, C.-T., Lin, S.-H., Yang, Y.K. and Yang, Y.-C. (2014), Tea-drinking habit among new university students: Associated factors. The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 30: 98-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kjms.2013.08.004
