Baba Farid University Nursing Journal
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 1

Impact of nutrition and health education program of ICDS scheme on pregnant women in Barnala district of Punjab

  • Author:
  • Sarbjit Singh1,
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 7 to 11

1Asst. Professor, Guru Gobind Singh College, Sanghera, Barnala

*Address for Correspondence: SARBJIT SINGH Assistant Professor, Dept. of Public Administration, Guru Gobind Singh College, Sanghera, Barnala, Punjab Email: kularsarbjit@gmail.com Mobile: 9915976665, 9872844298

Online published on 29 November, 2017.

Abstract

Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), which has been operating in the all districts of Punjab for decades.

The objective of the present paper is to examine the impact of NHED of ICDS on the pregnant women in terms of enhancing their knowledge in the critical Health Care and the extent to which the pregnant women put this knowledge into practice.

Rural area, Barnala, Punjab.

For this study, all three ICDS projects; namely Barnala ICDS project, Sehna ICDS project and Mehal Kalan ICDS project were selected from Barnala district of Punjab. A total of 30 Anganwadis (10 from each ICDS project) were selected on the basis of random. From each Anganwadi 2 pregnant women were selected randomly.

A majority (66.66%) of the pregnant women did not receive supplementary nutrition food from the AWCs. The study also found that a high majority (81.66%) PW did not know the real reason of measles and again majority (76.66%) pregnant women were not sure about ways of managing measles. The findings show a poor performance of the programme which reflected adversely on women's health

Keywords

ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services), BPL (Below Poverty Line), AWW (Anganwadi Worker), AWC (Anganwadi Centre), PW (Pregnant Women), NHED (Nutrition and Health Education)