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Subject: Home Science × End date: 2011 × Start date: 2011 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Assessment of perceptual health risk communication
    (2011) Soni, Uma; Yadav, Beena
    The study was conducted in Haryana and Rajasthan taking a total sample of 200 respondents equally drawn from two villages and two slum areas of each of the state having equal number of male and female respondents (100 each). The data were collected with the help of the well structured interview schedule about the five risk oriented health habits identified by the judges. Maximum number of the respondents belonged to the young age group (20 to 35 years), were illiterate, from nuclear and medium size families ,belonged to low caste, engaged in labour work, drawing monthly family income between Rs. 3500 to 7000 ,were landless, exhibited high risk orientation but low change proneness. It was reported that poor environmental health habits were prevalent among maximum number of the respondents followed by drinking alcohol, using tobacco, poor eating habits and personal health habits. Use of tobacco was prevalent among more respondents as compared to drinking alcohol but in terms of extent, drinking alcohol was ranked first indicating the more frequent and regular drinking of alcohol than use of tobacco. Rajasthan had significantly higher number of respondents who were chewing tobacco than Haryana. Habit of smoking was significantly higher in male respondents (78.0%) as compared to female respondents (13.0%). A vast majority of male respondents were drinking alcohol (80.0%) compared to negligible number of female respondents while (4.0%) were not washing hands regularly and this habit was more prevalent in male respondents (42.0%) than females (35%). More women were involved in water polluting activities like washing clothes near water bodies (58.0%) as compared to men (40%). The impact of using tobacco on health was perceived serious by most of the respondents .Various health hazards/ consequences were also perceived due to selected risk oriented health habits which were lung cancer, liver cancer, skin infection, asthma, malaria typhoid, blockage of drainage system, underweight and blindness. Extent of perceived hazards/consequences was maximum for drinking alcohol followed by tobacco consumption, poor eating habits, environment polluting habits and personal habits.
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    Feasibility of fruit and vegetable processing as an enterprise for women
    (CCSHAU, 2011) Batra, Payal; Varma, Shashi Kanta
    For assessing the feasibility of food and vegetable processing unit as an enterprise for rural women, two blocks i.e. Adampur and Barwala of Hisar district were selected randomly. Out of the selected blocks two villages namely Siswal and Dhani Premnagar were selected randomly. A sample of 100 respondents i.e. 50 from each village was drawn and 25 women respondents from each selected village were selected randomly who were interested to undertake training on food processing. Various socio-personal, economic, psychological and communication variables constituted the independent variables and awareness, knowledge, impact assessment, attitude, symbolic adoption, skill and acceptability constituted the dependent variables for the study. Data were collected with the help of pre-tested structured interview schedule. The inferences were drawn on the basis of frequency, percentages, paired ‘t’ test mean score and correlation. The study revealed that most of the respondents were of younger age group, illiterate, married had medium family education status having nuclear families of medium size had farming as their main occupation belong to middle caste, negligible social participation and having pucca type of houses had low annual income, marginal land holding having small herd size, low material possession and had high level of transportation. Majority of the respondents had medium change proneness, medium and high risk orientation and high economic motivation level. Most of the respondents took joint decision in family and entrepreneurial decision followed by the decision taken by husband. Most of the respondents were having low mass media exposure and high localite source of information and low cosmopolite sources of information were utilized. The general awareness of most of the respondents regarding food processing was of moderate level, however, awareness was high at post-exposure level. Maximum number of the respondents of pooled sample found the food processing technology simple, relatively advantageous trialable, observable, and culturally compatible. Sufficient gain in knowledge regarding food processing was recorded for sub-components of need for preservation, methods of preservation, important points to be kept in mind while preserving and methods of making pickles, preserve, sauce, potato chips and squashes. The respondents succeeded in change their attitude at post exposure in both of the village and succeeded in acquiring more skills with respect to all the aspects food processing. The respondents had moderately high level of symbolic adoption and willing to adopt food processing as an enterprise with somewhat difficulty. The Overall acceptability of food processing was of moderately high level. Personal and physical constraints were perceived as the main constraints in adoption of food processing. Knowledge was significantly correlated with land holding, income and risk orientation while attitude was found significantly and positively correlated with age, education, land holding and risk orientation. It was found that the obtained benefit-cost ratio in all the three cases mengo, green chilli and lemon is greater than one, hence it shows that the investment in the selected units is considered to be economically viable.
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    Feasibility of dairy farming as an enterprise for women
    (CCSHAU, 2011) Saroj Kumari; Sethi, Nishi
    Present study was conducted in Hisar District of Haryana state, purposively. From Hisar district, two blocks Adampur and Hisar-I were selected randomly. From selected blocks two villages, namely, Siswal from Adampur and Dabra from Hisar-1 were selected by random technique. From each selected village, fifty women were selected randomly, thus making total sample of 100 women. From selected villages, 20 women who were interested for training on dairy farming were selected purposively. A set of 20 independent variables and three dependent variables were selected. Need assessment, impact of training and feasibility were selected as dependent variables. Need assessment was assessed in terms of frequency, importance, difficulty and knowledge. Impact of training was assessed in terms of dairy farm women i.e. gain in knowledge, change in attitude and symbolic adoption. The collected data was quantified and interpreted by using suitable statistical tools. Majority of the respondents belonged to young age group, illiterate and joint family of medium size. Majority of respondents were doing farming and annual income belonged to medium category (40,000-60,000) and had small herd size. Most of the respondents (25%) had medium land holding and lived in a pacca house, respondents had high level of change proneness and medium risk orientation. Majority of intra family and entrepreneurial decisions were by husbands. Most of the respondents had low mass media exposure and had medium level of information source utilization. Training was resulting in significant knowledge gain, favourable change in attitude and symbolic adoption of dairy farming was observed as medium to high in majority of respondents. Dependent variables milking and milk product preparation, deworming, care and management of calves, breeding, post parturition care, marketing and bedding was found significantly correlated with independent variables. All the selected independent variable were non significantly correlated with watering wallowing and bathing, housing management of cattle shed, animal health, milking and milk product preparation and farm management and accounting. The comparison of knowledge gain and change in attitude of two villages indicated that there was no significant difference between village Dabra and Siswal.