Does mobilisation help change mothers' behaviour towards health and nutrition?

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, col...

Полное описание

Библиографические подробности
Главные авторы: Hyder, S.M. Ziauddin, Jalal, Chowdhury S B, Roy, Rita Das, Chowdhury, AMR, Yusuf, Harun KM
Формат: Research report
Язык:English
Опубликовано: BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED) 2019
Предметы:
Online-ссылка:http://hdl.handle.net/10361/12987
id 10361-12987
record_format dspace
spelling 10361-129872019-11-17T21:01:15Z Does mobilisation help change mothers' behaviour towards health and nutrition? Hyder, S.M. Ziauddin Jalal, Chowdhury S B Roy, Rita Das Chowdhury, AMR Yusuf, Harun KM Mothers' behaviour Nutrition Health Mobilisation Muktagachha Upazila Mymensingh Women--Health and hygiene Women--Nutrition Women's health services 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. 2019-11-17T09:50:15Z 2019-11-17T09:50:15Z 2000 Research report Hyder, S. M. Z., Jalal, C. S. B., Roy, R. D., Chowdhury, A., & Yusuf, H. (2000). Does mobilisation help change mothers’ behaviour towards health and nutrition? Research Reports (2000): Health Studies, Vol - XXIX, 207–221. http://hdl.handle.net/10361/12987 en application/pdf BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED)
institution Brac University
collection Institutional Repository
language English
topic Mothers' behaviour
Nutrition
Health
Mobilisation
Muktagachha Upazila
Mymensingh
Women--Health and hygiene
Women--Nutrition
Women's health services
spellingShingle Mothers' behaviour
Nutrition
Health
Mobilisation
Muktagachha Upazila
Mymensingh
Women--Health and hygiene
Women--Nutrition
Women's health services
Hyder, S.M. Ziauddin
Jalal, Chowdhury S B
Roy, Rita Das
Chowdhury, AMR
Yusuf, Harun KM
Does mobilisation help change mothers' behaviour towards health and nutrition?
description 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.
format Research report
author Hyder, S.M. Ziauddin
Jalal, Chowdhury S B
Roy, Rita Das
Chowdhury, AMR
Yusuf, Harun KM
author_facet Hyder, S.M. Ziauddin
Jalal, Chowdhury S B
Roy, Rita Das
Chowdhury, AMR
Yusuf, Harun KM
author_sort Hyder, S.M. Ziauddin
title Does mobilisation help change mothers' behaviour towards health and nutrition?
title_short Does mobilisation help change mothers' behaviour towards health and nutrition?
title_full Does mobilisation help change mothers' behaviour towards health and nutrition?
title_fullStr Does mobilisation help change mothers' behaviour towards health and nutrition?
title_full_unstemmed Does mobilisation help change mothers' behaviour towards health and nutrition?
title_sort does mobilisation help change mothers' behaviour towards health and nutrition?
publisher BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED)
publishDate 2019
url http://hdl.handle.net/10361/12987
work_keys_str_mv AT hydersmziauddin doesmobilisationhelpchangemothersbehaviourtowardshealthandnutrition
AT jalalchowdhurysb doesmobilisationhelpchangemothersbehaviourtowardshealthandnutrition
AT royritadas doesmobilisationhelpchangemothersbehaviourtowardshealthandnutrition
AT chowdhuryamr doesmobilisationhelpchangemothersbehaviourtowardshealthandnutrition
AT yusufharunkm doesmobilisationhelpchangemothersbehaviourtowardshealthandnutrition
_version_ 1814308808799813632