Assessment of nutritional knowledge of women residing in slum areas of Agra
Archana Singh1, Priya Yadav2 & Rinkle Sharma3
Department of Food and Nutrition, Institute of Home Science, Khandari, Agra-282002 (India)
ABSTRACT
Woman plays an important role in our society. A woman’s health is her total well-being which is not only determined by her biological factors but also by the effects of workload, nutrition, stress, war and migration etc. Women’s health reflects the health of the family. Nutritional knowledge plays a vital role in improving the nutritional status of the women. The aim of the present study was assess the socio-economic characteristics and nutritional knowledge of women. Agra district was selected conveniently in the present study. Multistage random sampling was used. Two Mohallas were selected by lottery method namely Nunhai and Bapu Nagar. Door to door survey was conducted. A List of women aged between 21 to 49 years was prepared form two selected wards. One twenty women were selected by lottery method for the present study. A self-structured questionnaire was used. It consists the information regarding socio-economic status and nutritional knowledge of women. Scoring procedure was used for evaluating the nutritional knowledge. The finding of the study reveals that out of the total respondents, majority (52.50%) of women were underweight. The nutritional knowledge was positively associate with education and body mass index. It is evident by the p-value which indicates the statistically significant at <0.05 level. Family income was also positively associate with body mass index which is statistically significant at <0.05 level.