DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2021.v07i07.002

Pages: 304-308

In India, around 43% of its children under the age of five are malnourished or undernourished. Malnutrition is more common in India than in sub-Saharan Africa. It is estimated that one in every three malnourished children in the world live in India. The Millions of Indian children are deprived of their right to survival, health nutrition, education and safe drinking water. It is reported that 63% of them go to bread hungry, 53% suffer from malnutrition. Deaths in children constitute more than 34% of total deaths in India. Seven out of ten of these deaths are due to respiratory infections, diarrhoea and malnutrition. There is high under five morbidity and mortality in India. hence a study was conducted from 06Feb. 2019 to 17June 2019 to assess the Impact Of Structured Educational Programme On Knowledge Regarding Malnutrition& Its Prevention Among Mothers of Under Five Children Residing In Selected Rural Area At Sikar City (Rajasthan). A pre-experimental, one group pre-test, post-test design was used without a control group on 400 Mothers of under Five Children. The technique used in the study is Non probability convenient sampling technique and result hows that knowledge regarding malnutrition & its prevention among mothers of under five children who have participate in the study in which 263(65.8%) had Poor knowledge score, 119 (29.8%) had Average knowledge score, and 18 (4.5%)had Good knowledge score. After the implementation of Structured Educational Programme, there is a significant increase level of knowledge of mothers of under five children regarding malnutrition & its prevention.