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Subject: Extension and Communication Management × End date: 2017 × Start date: 2010 ×
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    HEALTH AND HYGIENE PRACTICES OF RURAL YOUNG GIRLS OF DHARWAD AND ZIRO REGIONS
    (University of Agricultural Sciences Dharwad, 2015-06) TAGE MINA; Dr. CHHAYA BADIGER
    Hygiene is one of the significant hallmarks of a civilized society. Hygiene is the fundamental requirement for a healthy, respectable, productive and purposeful life. ‘Prevention is better than cure’ is an age old lesson. Hence, the comparative study was conducted in the purposively selected two villages of Navalur and Narendra of Dharwad district of northern Karnataka and two villages of Tajang and Hija of Ziro, Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh. Purposive sampling method was used to select 160 rural adolescent girls of 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th standard to know the knowledge level of health and hygiene practices before and after the intervention. Knowledge booklet, three Posters was developed as visual aids. Questionnaire was developed for pre and post test. The data were collected and analysed. Education intervention is a planned set of procedures which aims at teaching or improving social skills. “Before and after” type of experiment was done. The result shows that after the education intervention 93.75 per cent of adolescent girls gain the knowledge of drinking 8 glasses of water per day in both the regions. Avoiding junk food and maintain of food pyramid are observed quite high in post test. In both the region knowledge about smooth and silky hair, hair fall, dandruff, lice has increased. Face, nose, ears and mouth hygiene were improved after the booklet with lecture in both the regions. In the kitchen covering from flies was adopted. In case of surrounding hygiene toilet and bathroom were maintained clean. For avoiding mosquito breeding, flies and any other insects in the drainage pit DDT, phenyl were used in Dharwad (75.00%) and Ziro (87.50%). Age and education is positively significant with the health and hygiene practices. Calculated Z- values were significant at 0.01 per cent level with all variables, except body and menstruation hygiene.
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    Job Involvement and Job Satisfaction of Women Officers and Their Contributions to the Rural Women
    (UAS, Dharwad, 2012) Prabhavati Kurbett; Chhaya Badiger
    The women officers of Karnataka State Department of Agriculture (KSDA) are the animators, promoters and facilitators for rural women in the food production of the country. The research study was conducted during the year 2011-12 in 4 purposively selected districts namely; Belgaum, Dharwad, Gadag and Haveri. The research design was ex-post facto with 60 Women Officers of KSDA. Out of these 30 were graduates of College of Rural Home Science, Dharwad and another 30 were Agriculture graduates of University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, Dharwad and Raichur. Further 120 rural women were selected to understand the contributions of Women Officers to rural women. The main findings revealed that there was significant difference between Home Science and Agriculture women officers with regard to job involvement and job satisfaction. Majority of the Women Officers were in the middle age group (30-50 years). The Home Science and Agriculture Women Officers belonged to nuclear family and of medium size family i.e., 4-6 members. Among Home Science Women Officers 56.67 per cent were having more than 24 years of experience. Overall index of job involvement of Home Science Women Officers was 79.64 per cent while Agriculture Women Officers was 76.71 per cent. Sixty per cent of Home Science Women Officers were having high range of job involvement, while 56.67 per cent Agriculture Women Officers were having low range of job involvement. Overall Job satisfaction index of Home Science women officers (76.02%) was slightly better than Agriculture Women Officers (68.64%). For job involvement, age and experience were significant for Home Science and Agriculture women officers, while for job satisfaction, age, education, experience and trainings were significant only for Home Science women officers. Cent percent rural women opined about women officers of KSDA that their work is recognizable and encouraged adoption of all new technologies on fields (98.33%). Problems perceived by Women Officers were ‘dominance of higher officers’, ‘misunderstanding and non-cooperation’, ‘lack of technical knowledge of subordinates’, ‘difficulties of family like care of children’, and ‘stress and tensions of office which leads to health upset’ are some of them.