Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices (KAP) of Anganwadi Teachers and Asha Workers with Regard to Nutrition Education Intervention
M.Vasanthi *
Department of Home Science Extension and Communication Management, College of Community Science, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University-522034, India.
M.S. Chaitanya Kumari
Department of Home Science Extension and Communication Management, College of Community Science, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University-522034, India.
B. Vijayabhindana
Department of Agricultural Extension, Agricultural College, Bapatla, India.
K. Padmaja
Gender and Nutrition Research, Global Research Programme, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad, India.
J. Lakshmi
Department of Foods and Nutrition, College of Community Science, Lam, Guntur, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Nutrition is one of the important aspects that deals with good health and wellbeing of people. Nutrition education helps to resolve the nutrition problems by imparting nutrition education and bring desirable changes in terms of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP). The existing study was conducted to know the knowledge, attitude, and practices of AWW and ASHA’s with regard to nutrition education for pregnant women and lactating mother. Data was gathered using pre-tested questionnaires with a sample size of 90 respondents chosen from three mandals/Blocks (area) in the Guntur district. Random sampling procedure was used for selection of the respondents. The results of the study found that Anganwadi teachers and ASHA Workers had low to medium level of knowledge, poor attitude and poor practices during baseline test. After implementing intervention programme to the Anganwadi teachers and ASHA Workers for a period of one month a significant improvement in the Knowledge, Attitude and Practices was observed during Endline test (t=10.5; t=10.3). The above findings can be used to plan a digital material on nutrition education interventions which aiming at bringing change in the behavior of the respondents i.e., KAP and it can be used as ready reckoners during sudden epidemics.
Keywords: Anganwadi teachers, ASHA workers, baseline, endline, KAP, nutrition education interventions