IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

THE UTILIZATION OF INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN

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CHAUHAN MJ, GURJAR DJ, PATEL SH, PATEL SB, PATEL TH, PRAJAPATI AV, VASAVE RM

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Introduction: A cross-sectional study to assess the Utilization of Integrated child development services among Pregnant Women in the selected rural area of the Vadodara district. The objectives of the study are to assess the Utilization of Integrated Child Development Services Among pregnant women in Rural area and to find out the Association between the Utilization of Integrated child Development services among pregnant women in a rural area with selected demographic variables. The methodology of this research was used Study conducted among pregnant women with a sample size 100. Sampling technique used is non probability convenience sampling. The questionnaires’ regarding the Utilization ICDS Services among pregnant women. The collected data was analyzed by descriptive statistics. The knowledge regarding utilization of integrated child development services among pregnant women in rural area revealed that majority 88% had average knowledge followed by 8% had good knowledge and only 4% had poor knowledge on utilization of integrated child development services with obtained score range of 14 (minimum score-3 and maximumscore-17) with median score of 10 and mean knowledge score was 9.94 with standard deviation was 2.662. The association between utilization of integrated child development services among pregnant women in rural area with their selected socio-demographic variables which was tested by using chi-square test. Results showed that occupation of husband and do you know about ICDS Programme was found statistically significant association at p<0.05 level with utilization of integrated child development services among pregnant women. Other demographic variables such as age, religion, educational status, type of food, month of gestation, number of children, marital status, type of family and monthly income of family of pregnant women were non-significant with utilization of integrated child development services.

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