Exploring the Relationship Between Consumption Expenditure and Comorbidity Status—A Case of Wayanad District of Kerala

Lifestyle diseases are in a rising trend which is caused by many factors. Consumption patterns of people have changed over a period of time, people have begun unhealthy eating habits leading to non-communicable/lifestyle diseases. The main objectives of this study are to analyze the consumption expenditure and to analyze the co-morbidity status in the study area. A descriptive cross-sectional survey approach was adopted for the present study; the survey was conducted using Google Forms and purposive sampling technique was used to recruit 50 samples for the study. Data were analyzed using correlation, SPSS software. In the survey, the mean age of the subjects was between the age of 18–65 years, where 32% of the household samples are suffering from Hypertension, 12% of the sample household are suffering from Diabetes Mellitus, 6% of the sample households are suffering from cardiovascular diseases etc. The correlation was used to analyze the relationship between consumption patterns and co-morbidity status, revealing a strong positive correlation (0.339) between consumption patterns and co-morbidity. This could be because of various other factors. To conclude, the study surveyed the people to ascertain if there is a relation between consumption patterns and co-morbidity status. The survey has shown a significant relationship between consumption patterns and co-morbidity.