Socioeconomic and communicational profile of tribal women about health and nutritional practices

Abstract

From the study it was found that majority of the respondents had high knowledge but medium adoption level about health and nutritional practices. The correlation analysis revealed that independent variables, namely education, land holding, annual income, social and cultural participation, extension participation and sources of information had positive and significant relationship with knowledge and adoption while age had positive and significant relationship with adoption about health and nutritional practices. The findings of the present investigation indicate that majority of the respondents (85.00%) were in young age group and (89.16%) were educated upto high school and above level. The majority of respondents (48.34%) had land up to 1.01 to 2.00 ha. Over (82.50%) of respondents had annual income between 25,001/- to 50000/-. Majority of them (73.33%) had nuclear family type. Exactly half (50.00%) of the respondents were having medium family size. 71.66 per cent of them had expenditure pattern in the range of 12667 /- to 25332 /-. Nearly half (48.33%) of the respondents were having medium level of social and cultural participation and exactly half (50.00%) of the respondents had medium level of extension participation, while little more than half (51.67%) of them had medium level of sources of information. The majority (56.67%) of the respondents were having high level of knowledge about health and nutritional practices. Most of the respondents (66.67%) had medium level of adoption about health and nutritional practices.