Rural and urban mother‘s knowledge and expressed practices regarding supplementary feeding of children (six to twenty months) and its impact on growth parameters

Ruth; Shobha Prasad

Volume : III, Issue : IX, September - 2014

Rural and urban mother‘s knowledge and expressed practices regarding supplementary feeding of children (six to twenty months) and its impact on growth parameters

Ruth, Shobha Prasad

Abstract :

A study to assess and compare rural and urban mother�s knowledge and expressed practices regarding supplementary feeding of children (six – twenty months) and its impact on growth parameters in selected district of Haryana. By using a purposive sampling method, 60 rural mothers and 60 urban mothers were selected for the study in rural area (Bhuddia) and urban area (Ambala cantt). About 33% of mothers in urban were in the age group of 21–25 years and 26–30 years and about 33% of mothers in rural area were in the age group of 21–25 years, 41.6% were secondary, Graduation and above in urban area and 33% were illiterate and secondary in rural area. The findings revealed that the mean knowledge score of urban mothers was higher than the mean knowledge score of rural mothers and the mean expressed practice score (14.48) of urban mothers was higher than the mean practice score (12.68) of rural mothers. Based on the findings, it is recommended that there is a need to conduct a planned teaching programme on knowledge, attitude and practices of urban and rural mothers on supplementary feeding