International Journal of Nursing Education

Household family members may not have adequate knowledge about Janani Suraksha Yojana so there is need to impart knowledge and influence favorable aitude about Janani Suraksha Yojana to increase the utilization of its services.

The main objective of the study was to determine the level of knowledge on Janani Suraksha Yojana among family members and describe the trend of institutional deliveries between 2005 to 2013.

Descriptive survey design was adopted. The study was conducted at rural areas of Amroha, Uar pradesh. 1000 household family members living with 7 years of child or antenatal mothers where surveyed. Non-probability purposive sampling technique was used to select the samples. The tools designed to collect the data were socio-demographic Performa and structured knowledge questionnaire and 5 point Likert scale on Janani Suraksha Yojana. The method used to collect the data was structured interview schedule.

Collected data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings of the study is that the majority of respondents 510 (51%) were having inadequate knowledge, 401 (40.1%) were having moderately adequate knowledge and only 89 (8.9%) were having adequate knowledge on Janani Suraksha Yojana in case of aitude it was found that the majority of respondents 502 (50.2%) were having unfavourable aitude, 498 (49.8%) were having moderately favourable aitude and none of the participants were having favourable aitude on Janani Suraksha Yojana. The correlation coefficient value is +0.150, which is shows that there is moderately positive correlation which indicates; when knowledge level of family members is inadequate the aitude also becomes unfavourable on Janani Suraksha Yojana. The formative data obtained from the office of the Chief Medical Officer; Amroha district which shows that. The total number of institutional delivery at different CHC's, PHC's in amroha district, Uar Pradesh between the periods 2005 to 2013 is 72456. The existing district hospital is having only 100 beds, the total number of CHC's are 08 and PHC's is 25. The total number of ASHA is 945 for the existing population. The trend of number of institutional deliveries between the period of 2005 and 2013 is found to be increasing as in 2006 it was only 913 and presently 2013 it has crossed over 13213 found to be increasing. The analysis of knowledge and aitude with selected demographic variables of family members revealed that there is a statistical significant association between the knowledge score and religion, family type, number of children's, number of visits to health centre related to pregnancy, number of pregnancies and distance of Health seing from residence at 0.05 level of significance. Similarly for aitude it was found that there is a significant association between the aitude score and number of children at 0.05 level of significance.

Even though the majority of the family members had moderate knowledge still they had unfavorable aitude towards Janani Surajsha Yojana. As well as there is a lack of infrastructure and health personnel Hence, the present study suggests that there should be adequate infrastructure and health personnel to optimize JSY services and awareness programmes have to be planned and executed to improve the aitude on JSY.