Volume : IV, Issue : VIII, August - 2015

Knowledge Assessment of Rural Kashmiri Women Regarding Child Health

Iffat Jabeen Ghani, Rajni Dhingra

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Inappropriate and inadequate infant and young child–feeding practices have been identified as a major cause of health problems among children in rural areas.When a child is not being eastfed properly due to certain reasons it becomes necessary to feed a child with supplementary milk.Similarly, it is also important that the weaning is started at right time for an infant’s rapid building of body muscles and other tissues. It has been also observed that immediate causes of children’s malnutrition can be insufficient dietary intake which may sometimes not be due to lack of availability of food stuff, but also due to lack of knowledge of mothers related to early weaning, delayed introduction of complimentary foods or sometimes inadequate or low quality diet. This study aimed to assess the knowledge of rural women beneficiaries of ICDS centres belonging to district Budgam of Kashmir region regarding food is supplementation and weaning. Nursing mothers (NM),pregnant women(PW) and Mothers of child beneficiaries (MCB age group 6months–3years) were included to assess their awareness levels. As far as weaning is concerned it was observed that sample respondents from Kashmir were well aware about right timing of weaning, with a perception that other solid foods to be included in child’s diet as soon as a child himself starts to pick and eat. However, lack of awareness was observed with respect to importance of vegetables in child’s diet. The findings indicate that there is still need for intervention to improve the knowledge of Kashmiri sample women in order to prevent the malnutrition and other associated health problems among the children in the age group 6 months to 3years.

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Iffat Jabeen Ghani, Rajni Dhingra Knowledge Assessment of Rural Kashmiri Women Regarding Child Health International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 8 August 2015

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