Volume : V, Issue : II, February - 2015

IMPACT OF MATERNAL EDUCATION ON CARE SEEKING PATTERN OF SICK CHILDREN

Dr Sunita Khandelwal, Dr Sumit Arora, Dr A. L. Bairwa

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Level of maternal education with care seeking attitude of Mother and child health outcomes are interrelated. The study was conducted in department of pediatrics in Jay Kay Lon Mother and Child hospital. Out of 500 mothers only 51.48% illiterate mothers sought prompt and appropriate care for their child as compare to 70.58% among highly educated mothers. Ability to recognize Danger signs appropriately with their knowledge was observed only in 45.21% illiterate mothers , while significantly higher Number i.e. 82.35% of graduate and postgraduate mothers had the ability with knowledge. We concluded that there is strong correlation between maternal education and care of sick child. Any effort by health workers to impart health education to mother resulted in better , prompt and appropriate care seeking for their sick children,

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Dr Sunita khandelwal,Dr Sumit Arora,Dr A.L.Bairwa IMPACT OF MATERNAL EDUCATION ON CARE SEEKING PATTERN OF SICK CHILDREN Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 2 February 2015

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