| सारांश: | A study was done to assess the impact of mobilization on the change of mothers'
behaviour towards health and nutrition practices. Mobilization was given by
adolescent girls trained on various aspects of health and nutrition. Like regular
growth monitoring of their children, immunization, colostrums feeding,
complementary feeding, night blindness, hookworm infestation and hand washing
practices before eating and after defecation. The adolescent girls were trained in
BRAC non-formal schools in some villages of Muktagachha Upazila of Mymensingh
district. They made house to house visits and mobilized and motivated the mothers on
the above subjects. Mothers living in neighbouring areas but not visited by the
·adolescent girls were considered as non-mobilized. Results show that mobilization
has important effects on some aspects of health and nutrition behaviour such as age at
which complementary feeding should be started, vegetables as sources of vitamin A
nightblindness, and personal hygiene like hand washing practice before eating.
However, no significant difference was found between mobilized and non-mobilized
mothers in respect of importance of growth monitoring, immunization, colostrum
feeding and washing of hand after defecation. The reason for this is not know at
present but it may be due to weakness of the mobilization procedure/programme,
leakage of information from mobilized mothers to non-mobilized mothers, or gaining
of knowledge by the non-mobilized mothers from other source like radio and TV.
Further in-depth study is needed to resolve the question.
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