A Study to Assess Knowledge of Mothers with Infant on Child-Rearing Practices and Beliefs in Selected Areas at Coimbatore

The present study entitled ,”A study to assess the knowledge of mothers with infant on child rearing practices and beliefs in selected communities, at Coimbatore”. Assess the knowledge of mothers with infant on child rearing practice and beliefs. Find out the correlation between knowledge of mothers with infant on child rearing beliefs and practice. Associate the knowledge of mothers with infant on child rearing beliefs and practice on selected demographic variables. A descriptive research design was used. Selected villages (Somyampalayam, Kalveeram-Palayam and Kanuvai at Coimbatore. 120 mothers with infant. Random sampling technique .Outcome measures: Knowledge of mothers with infant on child rearing practices assessed through structured interview questionnaire and knowledge of mothers with infant on child rearing beliefs measured through Likert scale. Among 100 respondents 73% had poor knowledge on child rearing practice and 45% had poor knowledge on child rearing beliefs. Karl pearson's co-efficient of correlation indicates that there was a positive correlation(r= 0.7084) exists between knowledge of mothers with infant on child rearing practice and beliefs score. There was an association between child rearing practice score of respondents with their occupation, income, number of children and mass media at home, significant at 0.05 level. There was an association between scores on knowledge of mothers with infant on child rearing beliefs with age, educational status, monthly income, number of children and type of medical services sought out significant at 0.05 level. The study revealed that knowledge of mothers with infant on child rearing practice and beliefs are poor.