EFFECT OF INTERVENTION ON SELF MANAGEMENT SKILLS AMONG FARM WOMEN DURING COVID-19 IN TELANGANA STATE

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dc.contributor.advisorSreedevi, P.
dc.contributor.authorSandhya, P.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-06T13:40:27Z
dc.date.available2024-05-06T13:40:27Z
dc.date.issued2021-12-08
dc.description.abstractAgriculture is the back bone of India and is considered as the largest sector of the country’s economic activity. Covid-19 pandemic caused social and economic disruptions globally by creating profound and potentially long term impact on psychological health, economic, social life of people at all stages specially women. Studies also revealed that most of the women in agriculture were penalized with extra burdens, facing difficulties in making arrangements in both family and work life during pandemic. They were also not able to take care of their health and personal needs, control their own emotions and behaviours and often experienced stress, tensions and anxieties during pandemic. Self-management skills are the abilities that allow people to control their emotions, thoughts and actions. Person who have strong self-management skills are able to cope up with stressful situations, organize and function well in their daily life there by maintaining better health status and perceived psychological wellbeing. Several studies revealed that self-management skills like self-regulation, self-monitoring, positive thinking, problem solving, time management and stress management etc were poor in women especially from marginalized communities due to lack of proper training. So, it is imperative to provide intervention to farm women in enhancing their knowledge on better self-management skills to deal with crisis situations effectively. Hence, the present study was taken up to examine the effect of intervention in enhancing self-management skills among farm women during pandemic. An Experimental research design was adopted for the study to know the effect of intervention on self-management skills before and after exposure to intervention programme. A total of 60 rural farm women were randomly selected from four villages of Nalgonda district of Telangana State. An interview schedule was developed to study the existing levels of self-management skills among farm women. Based on the pre-test results, knowledge gaps were identified in ten components of self-management skills xv and developed intervention modules by incorporating Power point presentations, lecture com focused group discussions, brain storming sessions, role plays, case studies, video presentation and informal games etc. for better involvement of the respondents. A pilot study was conducted on 20 samples to check its feasibility and required modifications were done. Intervention was carried for 15 respondents in each village for a period of one month. Each day intervention was carried in two villages. Thus, total intervention programme was spread over 60 days for all the 60 respondents. With the gap of two weeks, post-test was conducted by using the same interview schedule. Data was analysed by using frequencies, percentage, mean, SD and Paired-‘t’ test. The general profile of the farm women revealed that, majority of farm women were in the age group of 31-35 years, belonged to nuclear families, had 2-3 children and studied up to primary education. More than half of them were daily wage workers followed by agricultural labours and earned about Rs.5,000 -10,000 per month. Majority of the farm women were belonged to lower middle SES category and few were in upper lower SES category. Most of the farm women had moderate level of support systems. More than half of them had low followed by moderate level of self efficacy and were using avoidance coping strategies rather than approach coping methods to deal with stressful situations. The pre-test results revealed that, the overall self-management skills were low among two thirds of the farm women followed by medium and high among only meagre per cent prior to intervention. Self-motivation, self-confidence, Problem solving skills, Stress management skills, Self-care and Self-awareness were poor among more than sixty per cent and Self-monitoring, Self-control, Positive thinking and Time management skills were poor among more than half of the respondents prior to intervention. After intervention there was a significant increase in the knowledge scores of farm women related to overall self-management skills at 0.01 level. Majority of farm women had moderate level followed by high level of self-management skills after being exposed to intervention. Farm women with poor self-awareness, poor self-care, low self-monitoring skills and poor time management skills were upgraded to high level followed by moderate level after receiving the intervention. Farm women who had low self-motivation, poor self-control, low self-confidence, low positive thinking skills, poor problem solving skills and low stress management skills were upgraded to moderate level followed by high level after being exposed to intervention. In all the ten components of self-management skills the mean differences between pre-test and post test scores were significant at 0.01 level. Based on the above results, the present study concludes that, the intervention planned under study had significant positive effect in enhancing the knowledge on self management skills of farm women. It helped the farm women in adapting better self management skills during Covid-19. Thus, the present study supports intervention theories and self-management theories as it proved that education and training creates awareness on better self-management skills among the respondents. The current intervention package can also be used as a resource material for the professionals working for the psychological empowerment of women
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810208712
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherPROFFESSOR JAYASHANKAR TELANGANA STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
dc.relation.ispartofseriesD11045
dc.subHuman Development and family studies
dc.themeM. Sc.
dc.these.typeM.Sc
dc.titleEFFECT OF INTERVENTION ON SELF MANAGEMENT SKILLS AMONG FARM WOMEN DURING COVID-19 IN TELANGANA STATE
dc.typeThesis
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