https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/issue/feed Asian Journal of Home Science 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Dr. Alka Singh hahs_2005@yahoo.com Open Journal Systems <div id="i-scholarabout">Asian Journal of Home Science is an official publication of the HAS. It features the original research in all branches of Home Science and other cognate branches of sufficient relevance. The journal publishes three types of articles. i.e. Review/Strategy/Case study (exclusively by invitation from the personalities of eminence), Research paper and Research Note</div> https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203009 A Study on Consumer Awareness on Consumer Rights and Responsibilities: A Special Reference to the Rural Women of Assam 2020-09-09T12:09:28+00:00 Manorama Devi manoramaaau@gmail.com Mira Kalita India is one of the biggest rural consumer markets in the world. Indian market have been witnessing several changes following on towards globalization, liberalization and privatization and a large scale entry of multinational company is a major outcomes of new economic order. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi (1890) “A consumer is the most important visitor on our premises; he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him, he makes favor to us, not we favor on him”. This quote expresses the importance of a consumer in the business context. The Consumer Protection Act 1986 provides certain rights to consumers to protect themselves from unfair trade practices resorted by the seller. These rights are well defined by the Consumer Protection Act and there are agencies like the government, consumer courts and voluntary consumer organizations that work towards safe guarding the consumer rights. Each and every consumer should be aware of the consumer rights and responsibilities. For the existing study an attempt was made to find out the awareness level among the rural women. Three villages have been selected randomly from Jorhat sub-division following stratified random sampling method. A total of 120 respondents have been selected for the present study and interview method has been used to collect the data. The result of the study exposes various liabilities of the consumers and it has presented a clear scenario of the consumer’s awareness regarding their rights and responsibilities so as to know their demand. The findings of the study revealed that the age is negatively correlated with the awareness level for consumer rights and education and income are positively correlated with the awareness regarding rights of consumer. Majority of the respondents (60.83%) showed average awareness towards consumer responsibilities. 2020-06-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203010 Work Related Musculoskeletal Discomfort in Meat Sellers - A Study Carried out in Tura, West Garo Hills, Meghalaya 2020-09-09T12:09:28+00:00 Ranima Saikia ranimasaikia@rediffmail.com The study was conducted to know the work related musculoskeletal discomfort perceived by the Poultry, Mutton and Pork sellers. The findings of the study show that the sellers are found involved in various activities while selling poultry, mutton and pork and most of the activities are performed by cent per cent of the sellers. While performing these activities the sellers reported that they feel moderate to very severe pain in different body parts. 2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203011 Parental Stress in Raising Children with Special Needs (CWSN) 2020-09-09T12:09:28+00:00 Sushmita Borah sushmitaborah@gmail.com Sampreety Gogoi Parenting stress is an experience of every parent in the parenting process. It is experienced by almost all parents in raising their children, but it is more increased in parents having children with special needs (CWSN). The birth of a child with special needs often bring changes in the life of the parents for which they might not be prepared and will have bigger challenges to overcome in future. So, the present study entitled “Parental stress in raising children with special needs (CWSN)” was conducted in Jorhat district of Assam so as to assess the level of stress in parents raising children with special needs. A sample of 80 parents was selected purposively from special schools of Jorhat. Findings of the present study revealed that majority of the parents had an average level of stress in raising their children with special needs. 2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203015 Socio-economic Status of Farm Women in Coastal Odisha 2020-09-09T12:09:28+00:00 C. Devadarshini chitramickey@gmail.com D. Jena In Indian society, women have a multi dimensional role. The largest number of women in India is engaged in farming operations either as cultivators or as supervisors or as agricultural labourers. A study was conducted to assess the socio-economic status of women in agriculture in coastal districts of Odisha during the year 2013-14. The findings suggested that majority of the farmers (63.14 %) were under BPL ( Below Poverty Line). When male wage rate was compared to female wage rate for agricultural activities, females represented a lower value Rs. 186.66/day compared to male workers (Rs. 235.57±15.31), and it was statistically significant (Z=11.71**, p&lt;0.01) for male workers. The average total monthly income of the household was Rs. 3459.74. Women were earning less for both in agricultural (Rs. 292.33) and non-agricultural activity (Rs. 244.68) compared to male farmers (Rs. 859.96 for agriculture and Rs. 704.72 for non agricultural activity). The study clearly showed that there was gender inequality in case income of the women between the male and the female farmers. 2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203018 Extent of Adoption of Home Science Practices Disseminated Under Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE) 2020-09-09T12:09:28+00:00 Sandeep Kaur sandeepbhullar586@gmail.com Sukhdeep Kaur Mann Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE) was introduced in to the curriculum of B.Sc. Home Science (Hons.) by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, in the year 2002. It aims at bringing improvement in quality of life of rural families. It had also been realized that formal system of education is restricted to classroom and laboratory situation. In real life situation learning through experience has become an integral part of the education. This informal education enables the students and teachers to actively participate in examining the subject matter and it’s utility to solve problems of the rural women. The present study was planned to assess the extent of adoption of home science practices disseminated under Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE) programme of College of Home Science, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana. Four villages i.e. <em>Rauwal, Sidhwan Kalan, Talwandi Khurd</em> and <em>Sarabha</em> of Ludhiana district were selected for the purpose of the study. A total of 120 rural women constituted the sample of the study. The findings of the study inferred that the extent of adoption of majority of respondents for Apparel and Textile Science (77.50%) and Family Resource Management (74.16%) was low. Consequently, it may be concluded that there is a large scope for betterment of adoption rate of home science practices by rural women. 2020-06-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203020 Challenges Faced by Female Entrepreneur : An Analytical Study 2020-09-09T12:09:28+00:00 Neha Rai neharai331@gmail.com U.V. Kiran <strong>Aim:</strong> The main purpose of the study is to analyze the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs in Lucknow city. <strong>Methodology:</strong> The Cross- sectional research design was used for the study. This study was carried out on a sample of women entrepreneurs of the Lucknow city. A total of 80 respondents were selected from Lucknow city. Multistage random sampling technique was used for the study. Women entrepreneurs were selected randomly for assessing their work life balance and challenges faced by them.<strong> Result :</strong> Women entrepreneurs faces many problems like family conflicts, less education and awareness, less government support, management issues, limited mobility, social-culture barrier, problem in arranging finances, raw materials etc. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> This study covered obstacles which are coming in the way of women entrepreneur. Women entrepreneurship in India is necessity for the economic, social and industrial growth of the country. Basic qualities of entrepreneur are innovative thinking, risk taking, self-confidence, accept change and management skills. But in India most of the women are low paid, low skilled, lack knowledge of technology and evolved in low productivity jobs. Women entrepreneurs mostly are engaged in household products, cottage industry, art and craft, handicraft, painting, knitting, live stock management, industrial goods etc. 2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203021 Estimation of Glycemic Index of Traditional Paddy Varieties Through on Farm Trial (2018-2019) 2020-09-09T12:09:28+00:00 P. Karuppasamy samysks@gmail.com M.R. Latha The rising prevalence of diabetes is closely associated with industrialization, urbanization, socio-economic development and changes in the life style. The rice varieties namely TRY-3, Black Kavuni and Karungkuruvai were selected for the study based on their popularity, nutritional characteristics and other specific characteristics in Tamil Nadu. Initially the non-diabetic participants were screened by conducting glucose tolerance test by administering glucose powder available in the market dissolved in potable water containing 50g of glucose as reference carbohydrate. For the intervention rice varieties viz., TRY-3, Black Kavuni and Karungkuruvai containing 50g of carbohydrate in the form flakes and provided to the healthy participant. The blood glucose level of the participants before administering test food and during 15<sup>th</sup>, 30<sup>th</sup>, 45<sup>th</sup>, 60<sup>th</sup>, 90<sup>th</sup> and 120<sup>th</sup> minutes were noted and taken for calculating the glycemic index. The Carbohydrate and crude fibre content of TRY-3, Black Kavuni and Karunkuruvai were 70.23g and 0.99g, 62.89g and 1.70g and 63.09g and 2.01g, respectively. The Consumer acceptability of TRY-3 was high than Black Kavuni and Karunkuruvai with values are 8.7, 8.1 and 7.8, respectively. The recovery percentage of Black Kavuni was high than Karunkuruvai and TRY-3 with values are 58 per cent, 55.2 per cent and 53.5 per cent, respectively. In the present study the Glycemic index of black kavuni (53.10) is lesser than karunkuruvai (55.50) which are in the low Glycemic foods. TRY 3 has a G.I. of 68.20 which is higher Glycemic index than traditional varieties. 2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203023 Enhancing Metacognitive Skillfulness of Adolescents 2020-09-09T12:09:28+00:00 Parul Kalia kalia.parulkalia.parul9@gmail.com Sarita Saini Metacognition refers to one’s “thinking about thinking” and is often defined by its accompanying skills such as monitoring and evaluation. Often researchers use metacognition as an overarching umbrella term but cognitive and educational theorists argue as to whether metacognition is a single construct or made up of distinct, differentiable factors. Metacognition has also been acknowledged as an abstract thinking ability known to enhance learning outcomes. The present research has made an attempt to assess the metacognitive skills among the students of the constituent colleges of PAU Ludhiana. The sample included 200 college students, in age range of 17-18 years. Metacognitive Awareness Inventory developed by Schraw and Dennison (1994) was used to measure the metacognitive skillfulness of the selected subjects and subsequently an attempt was made to prepare guidelines for parents and teachers to create a metacognitive environment since early years through daily interventions to strengthen their learning outcomes. 2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203025 A Study on Health Problems among the Elderly 2020-09-09T12:09:28+00:00 Meghna S. Kelgeri meguachuth10@gmail.com Rajeshwari M. Desai The present study was conducted in the year 2017-2018 to study the problems among the elderly. The sample consists of 120 elderly population aged 60 years and above residing in Hubli and Dharwad cities. A self structured interview schedule was used to collect the data. The results revealed that nearly one third and equal percentage of elderly belonged to underweight and overweight followed by normal weight and obese categories. Diabetes was the major problem faced by the selected elderly followed by blood pressure arthritis, coronary heart diseases and asthma. General weakness, poor eyesight and loss of hearing were the other problems faced by the elderly. Pain in knees while using toilets and while sitting and getting up were ranked first by the elderly. Hence it can be concluded that advancing age is associated with increasing physical frailty, cognitive impairment and economic vulnerability and requires appropriately supportive environments. 2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203027 Awareness of Domestic Violence : Need of Hour 2020-09-09T12:09:28+00:00 Shilpa Rathore Sneha Jain snehajain8349@gmail.com Domestic Violence undoubtedly a human right issue where it is very important to know what actually leads to act of domestic violence. Exploitation of women for demanding more dowry, discrimination of women, alienation of women’s self acquired property fraudulently, torture by husband and in-laws, arguing with the partner, refusing to have sex with the partner, neglecting children, going out of home without telling the partner, not cooking properly or on time, indulging in extra marital affairs, not looking after in-laws, cruelty by husband or in-laws mentally or physically, abusing and insulting by using vulgar language, sexual harassment, molestation, immoral traffic, rape, sodomy and all other inhuman acts are some of the most common causes for women stalking and battering. Present study was carried out in order to find out the reasons of Awareness of Domestic Violence: Need of Hour. The sample was comprised with 240 women from the age range of 24-40 years were selected from 3 district headquarter of Rajasthan. Domestic violence awareness scale was developed to see the awareness level of women. Tool was standardized by the investigator through calculated validity and reliability. The tool covers three major aspects on self aspect, family and social aspect and legal aspect of women. The data obtained were analyzed in the light of objectives set for the present investigation. Percentage was calculated for each part. The research finding also indicates that women were less awareness regarding domestic violence and aspect related to it. 2020-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203029 Lifestyle and Dietary Pattern of Diabetic Patients 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Soni Kumari Seema Dey seemadey@rediffmail.com Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder that prevents the body to utilize glucose completely or partially. It is characterized by raised glucose concentration in the blood and alterations in carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism. The prevalence of diabetes in India is reaching alarming proportions. The present study was design to access the dietary pattern and life style behaviour of diabetic patients. Total 300 diabetes type -2 patients from five hospitals of Ranchi districts were purposively selected. Maximum 51.33 per cent reported diet control is the prime factor for diabetic patients. Diet is the single most important factor in the successful treatment of diabetes. Inspite of all advance medical treatment diet has maintained its supremacy. Despite frequent intake of meals continual loss of weight is the symptom of diabetes. Forty-seven per cent families had strong hereditary tendency to diabetes. The family plays an important role both in health and diseases in the prevention and treatment of individual illness. Health care is the primary necessity of the society. 2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203032 Assessment of Work Life Balance Among Female Entrepreneurs 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Neha Rai neharai331@gmail.com U.V. Kiran <strong>Aim:</strong> The main purpose of the study is to analyze assessment of work life balance among female entrepreneurs in Lucknow city.<strong> Methodology:</strong> The Cross-sectional research design was used for the study. This study was carried out on sample women entrepreneurs from Lucknow city. A total of 80 respondents were selected from Lucknow city. The sample comprised of three categories of women entrepreneurs including entrepreneurs from beauty parlour, business outlet and catering service. Multistage random sampling technique was used for the study. Random sampling technique was used to select the sample.<strong> Results:</strong> The result of this study shows, working women executives were having difficulty in balancing their work life. Working women has tries to give their best for family and at work. Among get the three categories of female entrepreneurs selected for the study all the three professionals had problem in balancing their family life and work life due to pressure at work and competitive environment. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> The findings emphasised entrepreneurship being a global concept contributes for economic development of the country. Economic empowerment is the major goal of women to take up any entrepreneurial activity. They due to use their potential skills in establishing and controlling their own terms and activities. Women through their enterprises helps in providing employment to the unemployed youth and skilled labour, aids in innovation and further at large the National development. Goal orientation to various sections of the society and clarity to the policy makers, also are provided by these women entrepreneurs. They get act as role models, but they can excel only when they are able to harmonise work life. 2020-06-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203034 Preference of Consumers Regarding Purchase of Western Dresses 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Pushpinder Kaur pushusekhon94@gmail.com Vandana Gandotra gandotra_vandana@yahoo.co.in The present study was undertaken to study the preferences of consumer regarding purchase of western dresses. An interview schedule was framed for collecting the preference off respondents and sources of information, factors and various constructional features. The results of the collected data revealed that the most important source of gathering information in dresses was internet followed by television. Most of the respondents preferred to purchase dresses from boutiques and retail shops. The most important factor considered by respondents was price and comfort. 2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203037 To Study the Parenting Styles of Mothers of Early Adolescents 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Shreya Mehta shreya91mehta@gmail.com Garima Babel The present study was undertaken to assess the parenting styles of mothers of early adolescent. The study was conducted in the municipal limits of Udaipur city. The total sample comprised of 120 mothers of early adolescents belonging to middle income group. Parenting style questionnaire, developed by Robinson <em>et al.</em> (1995) was modified and used for data collection. The results revealed that mothers of early adolescents followed authoritative parenting style. 2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203038 Awareness About Elderly Schemes and Benefits Among Senior Citizen of Jhansi City 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Meenakshi Singh singhmeenu71@gmail.com Pooja Prajapati Iti Nigam In India’s, old age parents are cared for by their children. They need assistance in daily activities with dignity. Elderly adults are not scared of their death but they fear of losing their independence. It is the responsibility of their children as well as society to provide them security in all aspects e.g. financial, health etc. Even though government has introduced several schemes for elderly people but awareness related to these schemes is very poor. This study assessed the awareness about elderly schemes and benefits (Economic security, Insurance (Health and Pension), Reverse Mortgage, Concessions in travel, Old age homes and Miscellaneous schemes) among senior citizens of Jhansi city. Fifty old age people of Jhansi City of Uttar Pradesh state were randomly selected from Kaimasan Nagar, Shivaji Nagar, Duriyapura, Narayan Bagh, and Rajpoot colony. The structured interview schedule was prepared in accordance with methodical procedure. Results showed that education and type of family had significant association with awareness about schemes and benefits of old age. Rest of the variables (age, sex, marital status, number of family members, occupation before retirement, means of income and monthly income) has no association with awareness of elderly schemes. 2020-06-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203039 Dimensions and Availability of Light in Bathroom and Water Closets 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Meghna S. Kelgeri meguachuth10@gmail.com Rajeshwari M. Desai rajmanohardesaiuas@gmail.com Home is the one where we spend our valuable time with family, hence the special features with regard to interior should be taken into consideration especially for the elderly people. The present study was conducted during the year 2017-2018, in urban areas of Dharwad district, Karnataka, India. The sample consisted of 120 elderly population aged 60 years and above. Exploratory research design and self structured interview schedule were used to conduct the study. In houses of majority of male and female respondents, separate bathroom and water closets were present. The size of maximum number of bathroom and water closets were bigger than the standard recommended. It was good to know that none of the bathroom and water closets were smaller than the standard recommended. The availability of natural light in maximum number of bathroom and water closets was more than the standard recommended by the BIS. But the reverse trend was observed with respect to availability of artificial light, which disclose that the intensity of artificial light in maximum number of bathroom and water closets was less than the standard recommended. 2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203040 Academic Stress nad Self-esteem Among Rural and Urban Adolescents 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Pinki pinkibamal007@gmail.com Priyanka Sushma Kaushik Academic stress is a mental distress with respect to some anticipated frustration associated with academic failure or even awareness of the possibility of such failure. Selfesteem is that subjective judgment by which people make their potential to face life’s challenges to recognize, understand and also solve the problems, and their right to achieving happiness, and be given respect. The study was undertaken in rural and urban area of Haryana state. Hisar district and village Kharkara was taken in order to meet the sample requirement <em>i.e.</em> 50 adolescents from rural area and 50 from urban area thus making a total sample of 100 adolescents ranging in 16-18 years of age group. The scale used for the study was academic stress scale by Rao (2012) used to assess academic stress and self-esteem inventory by Prasad and Thakur (1977). The finding elucidates that maximum number of respondents have moderate level of academic stress and found significant difference in both rural and urban area.Data regards to self-esteem found that maximum respondents have positive level of self-esteem followed by balanced level and self-esteem was significantly and negatively correlated with academic stress. 2020-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203041 Personal Hygiene Practices with Special Reference to Towel Hygiene Practices: An Exploratory Study 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Meenakshi Mishra meenakshimishra57@gmail.com Sudha Babel Health is the normal and healthy state of body. Health refers to a healthy state of mind and body physically fit to have no disorder, illness or disease. Good personal hygiene is important for both health and social reasons. Personal hygiene is how we care for our body. In bathing, towels play a very important role. Towels are incredibly useful home textiles, whether they used for guest, bath, hand, or beach, all towels share one thing in common: they need to absorb moisture and dry quickly. As they used, they get dirty easily and then smells stingy. The longer towels stay damp, the longer the yeasts, bacteria, molds and viruses remain alive and stay active. Dirty towels can carry a huge variety of microbes, and they’ve even been linked to spreading infectious disease. The present study was conducted to get the data of towel hygiene. For this purpose hundred respondents were selected. Structured interview schedule was used for data collection. Results revealed that majority of respondents were following unhealthy practices 2020-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203042 Assessment of Developed Tunics Inspired from Inlay Work 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Himani Bhardwaj himanibhardwaj93@gmail.com Kanwaljit Brar The investigation was carried out to design a line of tunics inspired from inlay work. Acceptance of respondents for prepared tunics was studied. Based on the preferential choices of the girls, six tunics were prepared using inlay motifs were rendered through machine embroidery. Evaluation of designed tunics was done by a sub-sample of thirty respondents. The most preferred tunic on the basis of silhouette was D5 (Mean score 4.6) which obtained first rank. Tunic D8 (mean score 5.2) was most preferred for the embellishments used. Both D5 and D8 tunics were most preferred for overall appeal. Quoted selling price of prepared tunic D5 was observed as adequate by most of the respondents (76.67 %). Probable profit margin possible on selling tunics were estimated from minimum 20.40 per cent to maximum 26.67 per cent. Mass production of tunics can reduce the cost of production. 2020-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203043 Effectiveness of Social Advertisements in Promoting Adoption of Selected Health and Hygiene Practices 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Sumita Bhalla Preeti Sharma preetisharmahsee@pau.edu The present study was conducted with the objective to assess the effectiveness of social advertisements in promoting adoption of selected health and hygiene practices. The study was conducted in purposively selected two districts of Punjab, India i.e. Gurdaspur and Ludhiana. Total eight villages from four selected blocks of selected districts were randomly selected. From each of the selected village 20 rural women were selected randomly. So, in total 160 respondents made a sample for data collection. The most frequently telecasted five government sponsored social advertisements during the month of June, 2017 on <em>Swach Bharat Abhiyan</em> (Clean India campaign), use of ORS/Zinc during diarrhoea, pregnancy check-up, immunization and breast feeding were selected after consultation with experts. Data was collected using pre-tested structured interview schedule. The effectiveness of social advertisement was assessed in terms of adoption stages i.e. awareness, interest and adoption of health and hygiene practices. The findings revealed that the advertisement of <em>Swach Bharat Abhiyan</em> (Clean India campaign) helped 91.25 per cent respondents to adopt the practice of keeping the environment clean. Most of the respondents i.e. 83.13 per cent immunized their children below 5 years of age. Majority of the respondents (66.38%) were at adoption stage of exclusive breast feeding of infants for first 6 months. Nearly half of the respondents (48.13%) were at the interest stage of adopting the practice of check-up of pregnant women. Nearly two fifth of respondents (42.50%) were at adoption stage of using ORS/Zinc during diarrhoea. It can be concluded that social advertisement plays a significant role in influencing people to adopt health and hygiene practices. It is suggested that more emphasis should be given to produce good social advertisement on different issues to promote adoption of better and improved health and hygiene practices. 2020-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203044 Development of Apparel Designs Using <i>Mishing</i> Textile Motifs 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Lizamoni Chungkrang kutumlucy@gmail.com At present the trend is towards change in styles in clothes with more reliance on accessories for variety. A new fashion is almost always an evolution. So, an attempt was made to development of apparel designs using textile motifs of <em>Mishing</em> community through fabric painting, block printing and embroidery techniques. A set of twenty four numbers of apparels suitable for adolescents were designed and sketched by placing the chosen motifs. Out of twenty four, six designs of Palazzo, Fitted skirt and top, Kurti, Long gown, Stole, and Mekhela - Chadar were selected based on the results of the survey conducted. The selected motifs were prepared by using Coral Draw Software. The basic blocks were prepared and drafted based on the standardized body measurements. The constructed apparels were systematically evaluated by panel of judges and consumers from different fields of textiles with the help of a structured questionnaire. From the findings it can be concluded that it is possible to develop new and interesting designs from the <em>Mishing</em> traditional motifs to meet the excessive demands of contemporary designs in the fashion and apparel fields and also increase the variety of designs in the field of textiles. 2020-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203050 Assessment of Dietary Diversity of Rural Women of Reproductive Age 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Divya Raghuwanshi divyaraghav594@gmail.com Renu Mogra mograrenu@yahoo.co.in Women of reproductive age (WRA) are at greater risk of health issues for which gaps in diet quality and food consumption pattern have been recognized for a long time. To overcome this situation, FAO proposed dietary diversity indicators for assessing and analyzing the nutritional situation and food consumption pattern of households, as promotion of diverse diets is considered as one of the several approaches to improve micronutrient deficiency in women of reproductive age.Therefore, the present study was conducted with an objective to assess dietary diversity of rural.The total sample consisted of 200 women of reproductive age (15 – 49 years). An interview schedule was developed for the procedure of data collection. Background information was procured pertaining to subjects and their families.Twenty four hour recall method was used to obtain the information on the food consumed and dietary diversity was measured using the (FAO, 2016) Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDDW). The data obtained were analyzed in the light of objectives by calculating frequency, percentage and mean scores. Major findings of the study indicated that majority of the women had received minimum dietary diversity with mean value 4.34 ± 0.54. The study found most of the women of reproductive age were not consuming diverse diet. 2020-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203051 Evaluation of Contemporary Fashion Footwear Designed by Refashioning Traditional Punjabi <i>Jutti</i> 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Amanjot Kaur amankaur.ct@gmail.com Harminder Kaur Saini harminderct@pau.edu Traditional <em>Juttis</em> are back on the fashion scene in a jazzed up new style. The world of fashion is cyclical and now it is the turn of the traditional Punjabi <em>Jutti</em> to be reinvented. Forty motifs/designs of traditional Punjabi <em>Jutti</em> were documented from leading stores of local markets of Muktsar and Fazilka, internet, books and magazines etc. through photographs. For this study, different designs of footwear were developed in styles/shapes variation using ten selected <em>Jutti</em> motifs through computer aided designing (CAD) using corel draw x4. Thus, total 10 contemporary footwear designs with selected seven style variations of each footwear were developed. Six most preferred designs of footwear preferred by the consumers were prepared and evaluated by a sub sample of 30 respondents in terms of design, shape/style, fabric used and overall appearance. Among the prepared footwear, the most preferred footwear was design code C<sub>2</sub> on the basis of design, fabric type, style/shape and overall appearance, with mean score of 4.73, 5.23, 5.16 and 4.66, respectively. The quoted price for the prepared footwear C<sub>2</sub>, H<sub>7</sub> and G<sub>1</sub> were found to be adequate with profit margin of 50, 26.58 and 19.89 per cent, respectively. 2020-06-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203078 Assessment of Knowledge Levels of Women Farmers in the Areas of Nutrition and Health Care 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 L. Uma Devi lingareddy.umadevi@gmail.com Bilquis bilquisbasha@gmail.com K. Sudha Rani The study aimed at determining the existing knowledge levels of thirty women farmers in the areas of nutrition and health care of infants and pre school children. A semi structured questionnaire was used to collect the socio demographic data, knowledge, attitude and practices about nutrition and health care during pregnancy. Pre-Post knowledge assessment was done to study the impact of intervention programme. The results revealed that women farmers had poor knowledge of nutritional aspects like balanced diet, protein rich foods, low cost iron foods etc during pre test. After implementing intervention programme to the rural mothers for a period of six months a significant improvement in the knowledge was observed during post-test. Rural mothers had good knowledge on health aspects like immunization, health check-ups during prenatal and post natal periods. The above findings can be used to plan a customized nutritional intervention programme aiming to improve the maternal nutritional knowledge and practices and eventually improve the health status of the pregnant mothers especially in rural areas. 2020-08-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203093 Female Consumers Buying Behaviour for Fashion Apparels: An Exploratory Study 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Meenakshi Mishra meenakshimishra57@gmail.com Sudha Babel Apparel is billion-dollar industry employing millions of the people around the world. Over the last one decade, apparel industry has gone through the drastic change in the world market. Indian garment industry is very diverse in size, manufacturing facility, type of apparel produced, quantity and quality of output, cost and requirement for fabric etc. It comprises suppliers of ready-made garments for both, domestic or exports markets. This study is targeted on females buying behaviour for the purchase of their apparel. Women in age range of 16-45 year were selected for the study. Structured questionnaire and personal interview method was used for data collection data were coded and analyzed. Results revealed that availability of fund is major factor for purchase for middle age women, they occasionally purchase clothes, and usually purchase formal wear<em> i.e.</em> tighties and kurties. College girls’ apparel buying behaviour revealed that they usually purchase clothes monthly and availability of funds is least important factor for them. Apparel buying behaviour of girls is affected by friends while of middle age women decision to buy is affected by husband. 2020-08-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203094 Capacity Building of Women of Mangali Village, Hisar Through Time Management and Entrepreneurial Training for Making Bead Crafts 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Ekta Melkani ektamelkani@gmail.com Manju Mehta manjuijmehta19@gmail.com Sudesh Gandhi sggandhi3@gmail.com The plight of the women workers is reported worse in the small scale industries. Bead making, a small scale enterprise, is commonly practiced in North-Western part of Haryana where bead making from wood is the main source of livelihood for more than 70 per cent of the households in Mangali village. All the family members have been involved in various activities of bead making. However, women’s involvement was higher in making beads and string <em>(mala)</em> making (Gandhi <em>et al.,</em> 2017) who spend 8-12 hours daily for bead string making at one rupee per string. Seasonal calendar and activity profiles of 50 purposively selected women from <em>Surtiya</em> Panchayat of Mangali village were recorded for the assessment of the working hours of the women involved in bead string making. The work-rest ratio of the average respondents in minutes was calculated to be 20:3, which was not satisfactory for the long hours sitting work. Trainings with time management, bead products like jewelry making, curtains, bead vases, and other bead craft techniques was given to the women for eight months at intermittent intervals. The similar work is recommended to be introduced on large scale and a proper channel can be devised to sell the products and benefit the enterprise. More time management trainings need to happen at village levels to reduce the unnecessary drudgery of the rural women and employ their precious time in quality and productive works. This will ensure that the diverse designs and market colour trends would have wide range of customers resulting in good returns for the bead making enterprise. 2020-08-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203095 Content Analysis of Elder Abuse Cases Reported in Selected Regional News Papers 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Bilquis bilquisbasha@gmail. com L. Uma Devi The aim of the study is to do content analysis pertaining to elder abuse. 80 articles related to elder abuse were analysed from 2018 to 2019 to study the reasons for elder abuse. The information collected was analyzed using frequencies and percentages.The result revealed that different types of elder abuse were found as physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, financial exploitation, neglect and abandonment. The reasons for elder abuse were found as psychological and emotional abuse (56.25%), abuse by care givers (24.16%) mistreatment by their own children (14.32%) and improper medication (5.27 %). 2020-08-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203096 Assessing Trainee’s Profile for Better Adoption of Home Science Practices 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Sandeep Kaur sandeepbhullar586@gmail.com Sukhdeep Kaur Mann The present investigation was conducted to assess trainee’s profile for better adoption of home science practices. The study was conducted in purposively selected <em>Rauwal, Sidhwan Kalan, Talwandi Khurd and Sarabha</em> villages of Ludhiana district, where RAWE (Rural Awareness Work Experience) programme was conducted during the year 2013-14 to 2016-17. From each village, thirty rural women who were exposed to home science practices during RAWE were randomly selected. Thus, a total of 120 respondents constituted the sample of the study. Data were collected through a well structured and pre tested interview schedule. The results of the study showed positive and significant relation between the educational qualification, land holding, annual income of family and mass media usage. However, age was negatively and significantly associated with adoption status of practices. Practices should be need based and cost effective and students should be trained properly before RAWE were the major suggestions given by the respondents for improvement in RAWE programme. 2000-08-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203097 A Study on Health and Sanitation Practices Among Women Residing in Slum Area of Lucknow District 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Shivani Srivastava shivanisrivastava1964@yahoo.com Woman’s are the venerable group of our society still women’s living in some area such as slum are not treated same due to their residence. The woman’s residing in the Slum area leading their lives in an unfeasible manner. These unfeasible manner is directly associated with their health and sanitation practices. Health and sanitation are the important aspects of our lives and the practices followed are the indicators of the leading the future diseases. The present study was an attempt to study the health and sanitation practices adopted by the woman’s living various slum area of Lucknow district. The sample of total 250 woman selected randomly from different slum area of the Lucknow district. The data was collected by interview method using self structured interview schedule. The study revealed that majority (98 %) of woman were married. More than 50 per cent were lived in katcha houses where as 64 per cent had no proper water supply. About 58 per cent woman’s were illiterate and 46 per cent were housewives.76.4 per cent were going public health centres for any health related issues and 51.2 were usually suffering from cough and cold. 52 per cent were aware about the health services and same were benefitted from those services. 88 per cent were eating stale foods. 92 per cent women were not using sanitary pads during menstruation. Due to poor menstrual hygiene they are prone to some infectious and most serious health risks such as urinary tract diseases and sexually transmitted diseases. The study conclude that more than half of the women’s still have lack of information about health services and for better sanitation practices there is still need to provide more knowledge and awareness among them so that they can easily take it in practice. 2020-08-08T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203098 Reusability of Face-masks: Facing the Pandemic 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Aligina Anvitha Sudheshna anvithasudheshna@gmail.com Meenu Srivastava An unhealthy person can act as carrier to transmit the pathogens like virus, bacteria through respiration, if proper face covering in the form of face mask is not used by them to block the spreading of tiny droplets. Studies show that an infectious aerosol remains in the air for more than 6 hours after release. Respiration via inhalation or exhalation accompanied with sneezing or coughing by infected people gathered in group at society or park or any other public places is one of the common modes of transmission of this pandemic due to COVID19. Understanding the importance of taking adequate preventive actions like frequent cleaning of hands, using face masks that provide concealment to nose and mouth without any gap for air leakage can assist in protecting the individual, family and community at large from this deadly virus. This review article highlights various facets related to face mask and how they act as barrier against such harmful pathogens. 2020-08-06T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203099 A Critical Review and Recommendations Over Product Designing Problems Faced by New Product Designers in Agriculture 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Ekta Melkani ektamelkani@gmail.com Manju Mehta manjuijmehta19@gmail.com Kiran Singh kiransingh.in@gmail.com Designers of Agricultural products have major playing roles to keep trying to uplift the agricultural sector dignity by producing innovative design insights. Product designers work alongside engineers and model makers to conduct research and device an accurate design proposal for projects. Agricultural excellence could be attained through technological advancement and innovation in design. The major implications of an innovative product development postures for the agricultural research organization and management along with the role of design function in innovation development. The appropriate agricultural technologies harmonize with the environment, maximize and minimize its benefit and harmful effects, respectively while requiring an intelligent balance of labour-intensive and capital-intensive parts of technologies. The intensive innovation activity nowadays in agricultural sector is becoming an essential part of development and considered as a major factor in the contribution to the production development and efficiency in the market economy. The shaping and advancing strategy of the innovation system is aimed at assimilating the novelties making it possible to launch new production technological structure and to ensure competitiveness of enterprises both domestically and internationally in markets. New product development in agricultural risk management using integrated approach should be made to crop insurance improvement so that farmers are drawn to adopt innovative technologies and designers are motivated to design new for no loss of uncertainties of future marketing. 2020-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203100 Burgeoning Trend of Smart Clothing: An Overview on Military Use 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Aligina Anvitha Sudheshna anvithasudheshna@gmail.com Sudha Babel Smart outfit’s development started in military field and still remains a main field. Clothing is the first layer of protection and forms an important protective layer in military operation while combats and environmental hazards. Extended Cold weather clothing ensemble, High Altitude Pulmonary Oedema chambers, Anti-G suits, Flame retardant overalls, Submarine Escape Sets, Chemical warfare protection ensemble, liquid cooled garment for protection against hyperthermia etc., are fabricated from variety of technical textiles having special material properties. Technical and smart textiles are used worldwide to provide protection from the hazards of battlefield to the military and paramilitary forces, as ‘man behind the machine’ is the most important entity in a war theatre. The design of smart cloth is crucial to obtain the best results. This review focuses a collective account of harsh military environment faced by war fighters during War and Peacetime and desired smart textiles to lower the wear and tear due to harsh surroundings and battle menaces. 2020-08-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://i-scholar.in/index.php/Ajhs/article/view/203101 Women Empowerment- A Challenge for Government as Well as Society 2020-09-09T12:09:29+00:00 Parul Gupta parulgupta145@gmail.com Women empowerment is the buzz word around the world, when it comes to ensuring women get equal opportunities as compared to men. This excitement around the topic is because of the potential women possess to contribute immensely to the development of society. This is because if a woman is empowered, then it is linked to the sustainable development in the entire world. Therefore, women empowerment has become important topic in the development of the nation. In order to make the nation developed, it is always necessary to developboth the halves of the population equally, i.e. the nation must ensure that both men and women are provided equal access to resources and opportunities to reach the ultimate goal of development. Empowering women means giving power to woman to take decisions at her own level in economic, political and all other dimensions of life.In order to empower women it is necessary to understand the ill practices followed by the society against women in male dominated Indian society. By and large they are discriminated against, suffer neglect, denied rights and violated in every possible way including getting killed even before they are born. The successive governments have been paying special attention to achieve the objectives of women empowerment. The government of India and Punjab has started so many programmes for the upliftment of the women. Ministry of women and child development has also started many schemes/programmes for the welfare of women. The governments have to be careful about not letting these schemes use women as only posters for the schemes. The women must be actual beneficiaries and for this the women themselves need to come forward and start coming out of the shadows of their family members. The schemes discussed in this paper clearly showed that govt. is providing all the help to women in order to achieve community, organizational, economic, political and psychological empowerment. Along with the governments it is our responsibility to be open-minded and change the mindset of the society by providing equal opportunities to women so that she performs well in all spheres of life. Keeping above points in mind, this paper made an attempt to analyze the need for women empowerment and various schemes launched by the state government for the benefit of women using secondary data sources. 2020-08-07T00:00:00+00:00