Awareness and perception of mothers about functioning and different services of ICDS in two districts of West Bengal.
Integrated Child Development Services, a national programme of the Government of India has health, nutrition, and pre-school education components of services. To ascertain awareness, perception of mothers about functioning and different services of ICDS a cross-sectional community based study was conducted between June to September 2007 in Howrah and Purulia districts of West Bengal. A total of 1235 mothers were included as study subjects. As per opinion of the mothers 73% AWCs opened regularly, behaviour of the AWWs was friendly (71.6%) and 63% mothers opined that ICDS is beneficial to their children. 84.2% mothers were aware of any ICDS services. Quantity and quality of supplementary food was acceptable to 88% and 72.7% mothers respectively. 79.2% and 87.5% mothers did not receive any advice on child feeding and growth chart. Making beneficiaries aware about services by targeted interventions will ensure better utilization of ICDS.
Biswas
Akhil Bandhu
AB
R. G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, India.
Das
Dilip Kumar
DK
Roy
Rabindra Nath
RN
Saha
Indranil
I
Shrivastava
Prabha
P
Mitra
Kaninika
K
D000293:Adolescent; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005522:Food Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D009035:Mothers; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011247:Pregnancy; D011632:Public Assistance / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult