DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2021.v09i11.011

Pages: 1704-1709

Background: More than half of child deaths are due to conditions that could be easily prevented or treated given access to health care and improvements to their quality of life. Materials and Methods: The descriptive approach was thought to be most appropriate for the present study. A Structured Interview Schedule for collecting information regarding knowledge of rural mothers regarding new-borne care and child Health care which consist of back ground data of the study participants. The study period was from March’ 2021 to July’ 2019. Results: There is significant association between knowledge score with socio-demographic variables except caste (8.31) and occupation of the rural mothers (5.14). There is significant association between practice score with socio-demographic variables except caste (10.58) and education (7.05) of the rural mothers. There is a significant comparison at 0.05 levels between knowledge and practice of the study participants regarding new-borne care and child health care. Conclusions: 451(90.2%) participants have excellent knowledge for new-born care and child health care.327 (65.4) participants are practicing the new-born care and child health care effectively.