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  • Title: Mother's attitude towards child's health education and play in ICDS and non-ICDS areas.
    Author: Chaturvedi S, Prasad M, Singh JV, Srivastava BC.
    Journal: Indian Pediatr; 1989 Sep; 26(9):888-93. PubMed ID: 2634006.
    Abstract:
    To lay the foundation for proper physical and psychological development of children is one of the stated objectives of Integrated Child Development Services Scheme, which is operational in India since 1975-76. This objective can not be achieved unless a positive change in maternal attitude is accomplished. The present investigation was conducted in an oldest project area of India to assess this change using an adjacent Non-ICDS area as control. Majority of the mothers in both the areas were apathetic towards the health, education and play of their children. Nevertheless one encouraging trend was also observed. Significantly higher number of mothers in ICDS area had positive attitude in all the three variables in comparison to mothers in Non-ICDS area. It appears that ICDS Scheme has given the start but to have more acceptable answers, in depth investigations at national level are needed. Researchers distributed a questionnaire designed to assess mother's attitude towards her child's health, education, and play to 419 mothers of 6-8 year old children in Dalmau and Lalganj Blocks in India. The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) has been operating in Dalmau Block since 1975-1976 therefore women here made up the study group. The mothers in Lalganj Block, which was similar to Dalmau Block, comprised the control group. The majority of children from both groups had mothers who were apathetic towards their child's health, education, and play. There was a significant difference between the positive attitudes towards child's health of mothers of ICDS children (38.78%) and those of the non-ICDS children (17.56%) [p.001], however. Researchers observed a negative attitude towards health in the mothers of 1.41% of ICDS children and 5.37% of non-ICDS children (p.001). Further, more mothers in the ICDS block (24.76% of the children) had a positive attitude towards child's education than those in the non-ICDS block (16.59%) [p.001]. 2.34% of the ICDS children's mothers and 10.24% of the non-ICDS children's mothers had a negative attitude towards education (p.001). Even though a significant difference also existed between the positive attitudes of the 2 groups concerning child's play (p.01), the difference was less significant than it was for health and education. Moreover most of the mothers did not realize the importance of play in child development, but play conditions were better in the ICDS block, however. The results demonstrate that the ICDS program has indeed had an impact on changing the attitude of mothers, but ICDS workers must closely look at what needs to be changed in the program so as to bring about a positive attitude towards health, education, and play in the majority of mothers.
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