Empowerment of Area Development Society Workerson Awareness and Attitude Regarding Family Financial Management

Abstract

Background: Financial management within the family is essential to avoid disease and disaster andto make a healthy family. The study was aimed to analyze the effect of empowerment programme onawareness and attitude regarding family financial management among the Area Development Societyworkers in selected panchayath in Thrissur District.Objectives: The objectives of the study were to evaluate the effect of empowerment programme onawareness and attitude regarding family financial management.Methods: The research design was two group pretest posttest design. The population was ADS workersin Thrissur district. 60 ADS workers were selected using multistage random sampling with 30 each inexperimental and control group. The tools used were valid and reliable -FFM questionnaire (r 0.86) andFFM attitude (r 0.95).Results and Conclusion: Statistical analysis was done using unpaired t test which revealed that meanscores of awareness and attitude regarding family financial management were significantly higher inexperimental group than in control group (t 0.25, p 0.001 & t 4.26, p 0.001). It was concluded that theempowerment programme was effective in enhancing awareness and attitude regarding family financialmanagement among ADS workers.