Special Issue Description


Authors : Shital Deshmukh & Manisha Kale

Page Nos : 596- 605

Description :
The present investigation was carried out in eight villages which were selected from four talukas of Nagpur district of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra State during the year 2012-2014 and the research work was undertaken to study the knowledge of adolescent girls about reproduction health care nutritional awareness also to evaluate an impact of educational training in knowledge of subject due to nutrition education imparted to them .Nutrition awareness and nutritional status of each of the respondent was assessed both before and after, nutrition education program. The study adopted a pretest-post test design with in an intervention for a specific period. A total of 400 adolescent girls in the Nagpur district Impact of the training programme was the most important part of evaluation. The study was impact of nutrition education training among the rural adolescent girls which was studied and measured as adoption behavior in terms of knowledge of trainees which were examined before and after training about nutrition education. It was observed that the mean scores of knowledge [49.76] obtained before imparting of training was increased to 92.56. The gain in knowledge scores and the per cent change was 42.80 and 86.01 %, respectively.

Date of Online: 30 4,Jan.2018