Knowledge of adolescent girls regarding child development and childrearingand impact an awareness program on it

Dr.Abhay Kumar Choudhary; Dr.Manjula Vishwas

Volume : V, Issue : II, February - 2015

Knowledge of adolescent girls regarding child development and childrearingand impact an awareness program on it

Dr. Abhay Kumar Choudhary, Dr. Manjula Vishwas

Abstract :

The relation between parental self–efficacy and parenting competence is also moderated by parenting knowledge. In India, early marriage and early childbeå are most common among poor women and those with little education, which affects infant feeding and health. So, in present study the impact of health education on the knowledge of adolescent girls regarding child immunization, management of diarrhoea & ARI, growth & development has been found out. In all 268 adolescent girls of senior secondary and under graduate classes were selected by random purposive method for the study from Bhopal and Raisen Cities of Madhya Pradesh respectively. Data were collected by interview method and the girls were imparted specific education through guidance and counsellingmethods. Improvement in the knowledge of AGs of experimental group is shown 20.3% on immunization, 40.1% on management of diarrhoea & ARI, 42.4% on Child growth & development as compared to 25%, 19.8%, 8.3%, 21.9% and 25% of their counter part of control group.Thus the study indicates a need of educating adolescents for child care and reå practices.