EFFECTIVENESS OF COUNSELLING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD FEEDING PRACTICES AMONG MOTHERS OF SELECTED AREA OF JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN

Author Name: Kuldeep Singh Hada

Volume/Issue: 03/06

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/12.2022-42462645/UIJIR

Affiliation:

Nursing Officer (Dept. of Nursing) AIIMS Bhopal, Graduate Nurse RN, RM (EX-Nursing Officer Trauma center IMS BHU), Madhya Pradesh, India

ABSTRACT

Health is an essential factor for a happy contended life. If children are healthy, future generation will be healthy resulting in a healthy nation. One of the important factors in determining a child’s health is the pattern of his growth and development, which extends throughout his life cycle. The growth and development of the infant depends on good maternal nutrition, adequate breast feeding and appropriate complementary feeding. The present study conducted to assess effectiveness of counselling Programme on knowledge regarding Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices among mothers Methods: 60 mothers of children one group pretest and posttest pre-experimental design, and Implementation of counseling programme on knowledge regarding infant and young child feeding practices. Parameters of knowledge assessment prepared by researcher were recorded as poor, Average, good, Excellent. The data presented in the pretest most of the mothers had average level of knowledge score 65.00%, 28.33% had good level of knowledge level, 05% had poor level of Knowledge level, and 1.67% mothers had excellent level of Knowledge score. pretest level score was in the range 23-04 and mean is 17.60 and SD was 3.06. Posttest level score was in the range 29-12and mean 24.83 and SD 2.38, The difference was significant (P< 0.05) paired “t” value was 3.39 against tabulated value 2. There was improvement in all parameters of knowledge score among mothers. Hence can be concluded that counselling Programme has great impact on knowledge level of mothers.

Key words: Health, Children, Growth, Counselling, Feeding