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Impact of Education on Health Information Seeking and Decision-making among Rural Women


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In order to analyze the influence of the level of education and income on seeking health information independently and making independent decisions of their health, 213 rural women from different villages of Kangpokpi Sub-Division in Manipur are selected for the study. A questionnaire was used to collect data, and the One-Way ANOVA test was done to see whether the level of educational qualification and income are determinants of independent health decision making of rural women.

Keywords

Education, Income, Health Decision Making, Health Information Seeking, Rural Women.
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Florence Guite
Department of Library and Information Science, North-Eastern Hill University, Umshing Mawkynroh, Shillong - 793022, Meghalaya
India

P. Hangsing
Department of Library and Information Science, North-Eastern Hill University, Umshing Mawkynroh, Shillong - 793022, Meghalaya
India


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Authors

Florence Guite
Department of Library and Information Science, North-Eastern Hill University, Umshing Mawkynroh, Shillong - 793022, Meghalaya, India
P. Hangsing
Department of Library and Information Science, North-Eastern Hill University, Umshing Mawkynroh, Shillong - 793022, Meghalaya, India

Abstract


In order to analyze the influence of the level of education and income on seeking health information independently and making independent decisions of their health, 213 rural women from different villages of Kangpokpi Sub-Division in Manipur are selected for the study. A questionnaire was used to collect data, and the One-Way ANOVA test was done to see whether the level of educational qualification and income are determinants of independent health decision making of rural women.

Keywords


Education, Income, Health Decision Making, Health Information Seeking, Rural Women.

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