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University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad

The University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad was established on October 1, 1986. The University has 5 Colleges, 27 Research Stations, 6 Agriculture Extension Education Centers, 6 Krishi Vigyan Kendras and ATIC. The University has its jurisdiction over 7 districts namely Bagalkot, Belgaum, Bijapur, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, and Uttar Kannada in northern Karnataka. Greater diversity exists in soil types, climate, topography cropping and farming situations. The jurisdiction includes dry-farming to heavy rainfall and irrigated area. Important crops of the region include sorghum, cotton, rice, pulses, chilli, sugarcane, groundnut, sunflower, wheat, safflower etc. The region is also known for many horticultural crops. Considerable progress has been registered in the field of education, research and extension from this University.

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Subject: Human Development × Thesis Type: M.Sc × Author: Suma G. Patil × Type: Thesis ×
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    Influence of Maternal Knowledge Regarding Infant Development and Self Efficacy on Home Environment and Infant Development Outcomes in Rural and Urban Areas
    (UAS, Dharwad, 2012) Suma G. Patil; Pushpa B. Khadi
    The influence of maternal knowledge regarding infant development and self efficacy on home environment and infant developmental outcomes in rural and urban areas was studied on a sample of 80 mothers of infants. MacPhee’s (1983) Knowledge of Infant Development Index (KIDI), Caldwell and Bradly’s (1984) HOME Inventory, Sud’s (1998) Self-efficacy scale, Agarwal’s (2005) Socio-economic status scale were administered to the mothers. Nutritional anthropometry was employed to assess the infant developmental outcomes. Correlation-coefficient, chi-square and regression analysis were used. The results revealed that rural mothers had slightly higher scores than urban mothers on ‘right answers’ and ‘accuracy answers’ and they were significantly low on ‘wrong answers’. The demographic factors such as parent’s occupation, family size, income, SES did not influence the parental knowledge. Home environment score was significantly higher among urban mothers than rural mothers. There was significant association between home environment and infant’s age in urban group only but infant’s gender was significantly associated in both rural and urban group where in boys had better home environment than girls. On Selfefficacy rural and urban mothers did not differ significantly. Family income was associated with self-efficacy in case of rural mothers only. More number of urban infants (40%) fell under normal category of nutritional status while 80 percent of rural were in undernourished category. Maternal knowledge’s ‘accuracy’ score was significantly correlated with weight of urban infants indicating as ‘accuracy score’ increased, weight of urban children also increased. Self-efficacy did not influence infant developmental outcomes. Through in case of rural group the maternal knowledge ‘wrong score’ was negatively related with self-efficacy indicating that as the self-efficacy of rural mothers increased the’ wrong score’ decreased.