Impact of Distance Education on Nutrition and Health of Women and School Dropout Girls
| dc.contributor.advisor | Uma S. Hiremath | |
| dc.contributor.author | Soujanya S. Hiremath | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-21T17:06:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-11-21T17:06:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study on “Impact of distance education on nutrition and health of women and school dropout girls” was undertaken in the year 2011- 2012 in Dharwad district of Karnataka with a sample size of 120 school dropout girls and women. A booklet on nutrition and health was prepared and distributed to each of the selected respondents for two months study and change in knowledge was measured by assessing pre and post test with the help of structured interview schedule. Majority of the respondents belonged to the age group of below the age of 24 (56.67%), doing house hold work (90.84%), high school drop outs (71.66%), married (70.84%), living in nuclear family (80.83%) with medium family size (45%),low annual income(75%),no land holdings(41.67%), low level extension participation (62.50%) and high level mass media participation (36.67%). After the distance education majority of the respondents answered correctly about food (96.66%), better cooking methods (81.67%), balanced diet (80.00%) and nutrition (61.66%).With respect to nutrients more number of the respondents gave correct answer about fat (78.33%), water and fibre (76.66%), vitamins (75.00%), minerals (74.16%), protein (67.50%) and carbohydrate (56.67%). With regard to health majority of the respondents gave correct answer with respect to family sanitation (88.33%), personal hygiene (85.00%), community sanitation (83.34%), environmental sanitation (82.00%) and additional useful information for rural sanitation (75.00%). Due to distance education cent per cent and 91.67 per cent of the respondents showed high knowledge level about nutrition and health respectively. A high impact was seen with respect to nutrition subject where in, the mean knowledge score was increased from 87.53 to 104.75 and in case of health the increase was from 48.54 to 54.78. The independent variables showed significant relationship between education, type and size of family, size of land holding, and mass media participation with the knowledge of both nutrition and health aspects. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/86775 | |
| dc.publisher | UAS, Dharwad | en_US |
| dc.research.problem | Impact of Distance Education on Nutrition and Health of Women and School Dropout Girls | en_US |
| dc.sub | Home Science | |
| dc.theme | Impact of Distance Education on Nutrition and Health of Women and School Dropout Girls | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | |
| dc.title | Impact of Distance Education on Nutrition and Health of Women and School Dropout Girls | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |