Vol. 12, Issue 6 (2023)

Author(s):
Dr. Punam Kumari, Ginisha Gupta, Madhu Priya and Suresh Kumar

Abstract:
The study entitled, “Knowledge of Rural Women about Food and Nutrition Requirements of Infants” was conducted in Mansi Block of Khagaria District of Bihar. Ex-post facto design of research was used in the study. A sample of 100 women respondents were chosen using simple random method to collect the data. An interview schedule was prepared to collect the data and the data were collected through personal interview. The findings of the study indicated that 71 percent of the respondents had medium level of knowledge of food and nutrition requirements of infants followed by 15 percent of the respondents having high knowledge on the matter. Only 14 percent of the respondents had low knowledge of food and nutrition requirements of infants. The table pertaining to relationship between Socio-economic status of the respondents and their knowledge regarding food and nutrition requirements of infants showed that age, caste, education, social participation, mass media exposure and increasing sequence of infant were positively correlated with knowledge of women at 1 percent level of significance. The regression analysis of the data showed that among 11 Socio-economic variables, the variables of age, social participation, mass media exposure and annual income of the respondents were positively related to knowledge level of respondents at 1 percent.