“Assess the Knowledge and Attitude of Parents on needs of Play for Children with a View to Develop an Information Booklet.”

Play is a voluntary, intrinsically motivated activity normally associated with recreational pleasure and enjoyment. It is a serious business to children and a vehicle for development. Through the universal medium of play, children learn what no one can teach them. They learn about their world and how to deal with this environment of objects, time, space, structure, and people. As children grow and mature, play changes in form of type, to fit into the complex needs of the growing child. The purpose of the study was to develop an Information Booklet based on parental knowledge and attitude on needs of play for children thereby improving parental knowledge and attitude and to provide a favorable environment for their normal growth and development. The study was conducted to assess the knowledge and attitude of parents on needs of play for children in a selected hospital of Kolkata, West Bengal with a view to develop an Information Booklet. A non-experimental survey approach with descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The data were collected using convenience sampling technique among 80 parents whose children were admitted in the hospital for treatment. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings revealed that out of 80 parents more than half (58%) had good knowledge level on needs of play for children. Most of them (91%) had positive attitude where score range was from 41-60. There was no significant association of knowledge with selected variables. And also there was no significant association of attitude with selected variables and the computed ‘r’ value was -0.183 which revealed that there was a weak negative relationship between knowledge and attitude on needs of play for children.