ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICES OF MCH COMPONENTS AMONG YOUNG MOTHERS.

Received: 18 January 2018 Final Accepted: 20 February 2018 Published: March 2018 A descriptive study was undertaken to Assess the mothers knowledge, attitudes and practices of MCH components at selected urban community, Sriramnagar, UPHC, Hyderabad ,Telangana. A sample of 500 mothers was chosen through purposive convenient sampling technique. A structured interview questionnaire was used to collect the data. Findings revealed that majority of mothers scored above average and average knowledge levels. Their practices are very poor that is 80% are below average. Objectives: 1. To assess the mothers knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding antenatal care. 2. To examine the attitudes of mothers regarding contraceptive methods. 3. To identify/observe the practices about breast feeding and Immunization. 4. To study the association between KAP on MCH components and socioeconomic and demographic variables

A descriptive study was undertaken to Assess the mothers knowledge, attitudes and practices of MCH components at selected urban community, Sriramnagar, UPHC, Hyderabad ,Telangana. A sample of 500 mothers was chosen through purposive convenient sampling technique. A structured interview questionnaire was used to collect the data. Findings revealed that majority of mothers scored above average and average knowledge levels. Their practices are very poor that is 80% are below average. Objectives: 1. To assess the mothers knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding antenatal care. 2. To examine the attitudes of mothers regarding contraceptive methods. 3. To identify/observe the practices about breast feeding and Immunization. 4. To study the association between KAP on MCH components and socioeconomic and demographic variables Copy Right, IJAR, 2018,. All rights reserved.
Maternal and child health is recognized as one of the significant components of family welfare. Health of both mother and children is a matter of public health concern because of several reasons.
Women in child bearing age and growing infants and children under 15 years of age together form a large section of our society (19%+40%= 59%), and such majority of public health services would be consumed by them. They are the more dependent and vulnerable members of the society who are at a high risk of morbidity and mortality. In India 125000(46 per 100000 live births) women die due to pregnancy and child birth related causes. About 1.8 million (74per 1000 live births) infants and 2.65 million (109 per 1000 live births) under five children die every year. Most of these deaths are preventable. Hence a greater priority is given by public health personnel to maternal and child health services to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality and improve community health.

Int. J. Adv. Res. 6(3), 1147-1151
1148 the sample for the study. 500 mothers was selected from two urban slums, those are Siramnagar and Jawarnagar community. Mothers who are in reproductive age group (15 to 45 years) and having at least one living child, the mother who were able to speak and understand Telugu, English and Hindi. The present study was conducted in Sriramnagar and Jawaharnagar, Urban community, Hyderabad. This is situated 6 km away from NIMS hospital, and attached to UPHC, Sriramnagar. In this community areas belongs to different religion i.e. Hindu, Muslim and Christian.

Instrument:-
A structured interview schedule was used to collect the data.

Data collection procedure:-
The period of data was collected from 13.03.2015 to 15.05.2015, before starting data collection permissions was obtained from DM&HO, Hyderabad, District, Telangana, and medical officer of Sriramnagar, UPHC.
Data analysis:-Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data, correlations was used to determine the relationship between mothers Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices with their demographic variables.

Mother's Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Sriramnagar:-
The findings revealed that, there is a association between mothers knowledge on MCH components with their religion, education, occupation, family income, type of house, number of rooms in the house, disposal method of sanitary napkins and material used for sanitary napkins.
Association of mothers attitudes on MCH components with their demographic variables like number of children and type of house.
Association of mothers practices on MCH components with their demographic variables such as age, religion, education, occupation, independent income, disposal method of sanitary napkins and source of getting drinking water etc.

Mothers Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Jawaharnagar:-
The findings revealed that, there is a association between mothers knowledge on MCH components with their residence, age, religion, education, type of family, presence of sanitary latrine, disposal of sanitary napkin and material used for sanitary napkin.
Association of mothers attitudes on MCH components with their demographic variables like age, education, occupation, independent income, type of house and rent/ own house.
Association of mothers practices on MCH components with their demographic variables like age, education, occupation, independent income, number of rooms in the house and material used for sanitary napkins. Mothers attitudes scores regarding MCH components, out of 500 subjects 18 (3.6%) were scored below average, 415(83.0%) scored average and 67 (13.4%) were scored above average scores.

Conclusion:-
Conclusions were drawn on the basis of the findings of the study majority of the mothers 277(55.4%) were having above average knowledge on MCH components and attitudes of the mothers 415 (83.0%) were scored average and practices of the mothers 33 (6.6%) were scored above average, but 394 (78.8%) of the mothers got below average levels those who were not practising.