1M. Sc Nursing, Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed To Be University), College of Nursing, Sangli, Maharashtra, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Nursing, Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed To Be University), College of Nursing, Sangli, Maharashtra, India
Developmental milestone are a set of functional skills or age specific tasks that most children can do at a certain age range. Child development mentions how a child becomes able to do more consisting of many different things as they grows older. Development is different than growth. Growth refers to the child's development: Although each milestone has an age level, the actual age when a normally developing child reaches that milestone can vary quite a bit.
To assess the awareness and information needs regarding normal developmental milestones of 1 to 3 year children among the mothers of infants. And to find out the association between level of knowledge with selected socio demographic variables.
A community based descriptive study conducted among 200 samples on mothers of 1 to 3 year children by using simple random sampling technique through structured questionnaires. Inclusion criteria of study was mothers having first child.
Study shows that there was 162(81%) Mothers of 8–12 month children's having below average knowledge, and 38 (19%) were having above average knowledge regarding normal developmental milestones of 1–3 year Children's. Study concluded that there was maximum mothers are having below average knowledge regarding normal developmental milestones of 1–3 year Children's. So need to aware them or educate to mothers regarding normal developmental milestones of 1 to 3 year children.
Normal developmental milestones, Mothers knowledge
