A study on knowledge and adoption of selected health and nutritional practices by rural women in Belgaum district, Karnataka
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Date
2007
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
The study was conducted in Belgaum and Gokak taluks of Belgaum district of
Karnataka state during the year of 2006-2007. The district and taluks were purposively
selected because they were having highest number of Primary Health Centers (P.H.C). Since
the study was related to health and nutritional practices, villages having Primary Health
Centers (P.H.C) were considered for the study. Five villages were selected randomly from
each taluk for the study. Fifteen women were selected randomly as respondents from the
selected villages. Thus a total of one 150 respondents were taken for the study.
Majority (49.34%) of the respondents had medium level of knowledge. Whereas,
19.33 percent and 31.33 percent of the respondents had low and high level of knowledge,
respectively about health and nutritional practices. Majority (63.37%) had partially adopted
the health and nutritional practices, whereas, 36.63% of the respondents were fully adopted
the health and nutritional practices. This might be due to the less social participation, less
exposure to mass media, less participation in extension activities.
The socio economic profile of the respondents revealed that majority of the
respondents had high level of education (46.00%), nuclear family (61.33%), annual income
had upto 17,000 (61.33%), land holding 2.5 to 5 acre (31.00%), low to medium participation
in social organizations (40.00%), low extension participation (14.67%), less exposure to mass
media (7.33%), medium to high information seeking behaviour through formal and informal
sources (59.00%).
Knowledge and Adoption showed a significant relationship with education, caste,
land holding, annual income, and sources of information, social participation and extension
participation had positive and significant relationship with the knowledge level of the rural
women about health and nutritional practice. The age a d family size showed non significant
relationship with the knowledge and adoption level of the respondents.
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Agricultural Extension Education