A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge and Attitude regarding the Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana among the people in selected Urban Community of Visnagar

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana is a health care plan developed by the Government of Gujarat to help poor families in their major adversities.1 MA Amrutam Yojana has been implemented for all families living under poverty line in all the districts of Gujarat state from 4th September 2012.2 DESIGN: A quantitative approach using Descriptive survey research design. PARTICIPANTS: 100 urban people were selected using Probability Simple random sampling technique in selected urban areas of Visnagar. TOOL: Self Structured Questionnaire was used to assess the level of Knowledge regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana and Likert scale (five-point scale) to assess the attitude towards Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana among the urban people. RESULTS: In this study overall the highest percentage in the demographic data including the Age group 29.7% (29-39yr), Gender 51.3% (female), Marital status 71% (Married), Type of family 47.3% (joint family), Education qualification 30.3% (Secondary education), Occupation 40% (Unemployed), Monthly income 34% (above 15000) and previous knowledge 48% (yes). 26.33% of sample had poor knowledge score (0-6), 60.33% of them had average knowledge score (7-13) and 13.33% of them had good knowledge score (14-20) regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana. 22% of urban people have negative attitude while 78% have positive attitude towards Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana. The correlation coefficient was done to assess relation between knowledge and attitude. The result was 0.59. It shows there was moderate relation between knowledge and attitude regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana Chi-square test used to associate the level of knowledge and attitude with selected demographic variable at 0.05 level of significant. CONCLUSION: The findings of the study revealed that sample have average knowledge about Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana. The findings of the study indicate there was moderate relation between knowledge and attitude regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana.