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Knowledge among Mothers of Under Five Children Regarding Severe Acute Malnutrition to Develop Health Education Pamphlet

Author(s) Prof. Dr. Vidyashri R
Country India
Abstract ABSTRACT :OBJECTIVES: 1.To assess the knowledge among mothers of under five children regarding severe acute malnutrition at selected rural community Tumkur.2.To find out an association between the level of knowledge of mothers of under five children with their selected demographic variables.3. To prepare and distribute health education pamphlet regarding severe acute malnutrition prevention and its management. METHODOLOGY: The research design selected for the present study is a Non experimental descriptive study design. The subjects are randomly assigned. The pretest was done and the pamphlets were distributed. Evaluative approach, Descriptive research design was used, with convenient sampling technique. The data was collected from 100 mothers of under-five children. The pre-test knowledge was assessed through knowledge questionnaire. RESULTS: The overall scores show that majority 99% of the mothers of under-five children had inadequate knowledge and 1% of the mothers of under-five Children had moderate knowledge regarding severe acute malnutrition in the pretest and the health education pamphlet was been developed. CONCLUSION: This study reveals that majority of the respondents had inadequate knowledge in pre-test regarding severe acute malnutrition. The following conclusions were drawn based on the current study. There is lack of knowledge among mothers of under-five children regarding severe acute malnutrition. Based on the pre-test knowledge score the health education pamphlet was developed and distributed among mothers of under-five children.
Keywords Under-five children, severe acute malnutrition, health education pamphlet.
Field Medical / Pharmacy
Published In Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On 2025-12-17
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.63536
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