Assessment of the Extent of the Knowledge of Anganwadi Workers regarding Maternal, Child Nutrition and Health and Problems Faced during Job Fulfillment: A Study of Urban and Rural Areas of Jaipur

Anganwadi worker is community based frontline workers. The central points for the delivery ICDS services at community levels to children below six years of age, pregnant women, nursing mothers and adolescent girls. The Anganwadi worker should be self sufficient to deliver these activities in prevention and control of malnutrition, spread awareness among vulnerable at grass root level by providing services at doorstep. The present study was conducted to find out the level of knowledge and practices of anganwadi workers regarding various maternal and child health & nutrition and problems faced by them during their job. For present study 180 anganwadi centers of urban and rural areas were selected randomly. For knowledge and practices assessment questionnaire was constructed. One mark was given for a correct response, while no mark was given for a wrong response of unanswered question. Majority of the respondents 36.67% were between 31- 40 years while mostly 44% percent respondents were matriculated. Anganwadi workers has high level of knowledge for breast feeding (73.64%), complementary feeding (71.29%), and diarrhoea management (71.33%) whereas middle level of knowledge for supplementary feeding (65.87%) and growth monitoring (66.66%). Inadequate honorarium, excess work load and infrastructure at the centers were main problems faced by them. It can conclude that the quality of knowledge among anganwadi workers for their job profile was sufficient. Anganwadi workers had theoretical knowledge about concept of growth monitoring however in practical skill they were poor. For efficiently working anganwadi workers needs proper infrastructure for anganwadi centers, should be ensued by government or by community. Anamika Choudhary | Shilpi Sharma"Assessment of the Extent of the Knowledge of Anganwadi Workers regarding Maternal, Child Nutrition and Health and Problems Faced during Job Fulfillment: A Study of Urban and Rural Areas of Jaipur" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-1 , December 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd5971.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/home-science/food-and-nutrition/5971/assessment-of-the-extent-of-the-knowledge-of-anganwadi-workers-regarding-maternal-child-nutrition-and-health-and-problems-faced-during-job-fulfillment-a-study-of-urban-and-rural-areas-of-jaipur/anamika-choudhary