“A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE AMONG MOTHERS OF INFANTS REGARDING WEANING PRACTICES IN SELECTED RURAL COMMUNITIES”, HARIDWAR, UTTARAKHAND

Abstract

The children of today are citizens of tomorrow. During the rst 4-6 months of life, infants need only breast milk or formula to meet all their nutritional needs. After that, it is essential for mothers to give supplementary foods in addition to breast feeding because several developmental milestones take place in the child. The research design adopted for this study was descriptive survey design. The sample non-probability convenient sampling technique was adopted for selection of subject. This includes 100 mothers of Infants (6-12 months) sample in selected rural communities, Haridwar. Result: The result of this study that knowledge and attitude had no signicant difference. Conclusion: In this study showed that attitude score is better than knowledge score. Because majority of mothers of infants was had positive attitudes towards weaning practices.