Knowledges of Rural Mothers About Nutritional, Health and Educational Needs for Their Children in Some Villages of Alexandria Governorate

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This research aimed mainly to study knowledges of rural mothers about nutritional, health and Educational needs for their children in some villages of Alexandria Governorate. The study was carried out through achieving the following objectives:
1- Asses some characteristics of the respondents.
2- Determine the knowledge level of the respondents about their children needs.
3- Study the relation between some independent variables and the knowledge level of respondents.
Data were collected by a questionnaire through personal interviews with a sample consisted of 200 rural respondents, person correlation, spearman correlation and percentage were used in data analysis.
Data indicated the following result:
1-   Nutritional knowledges level of the respondents was medium and high (35%, 58.5%).
2-   Healthy knowledges level of the respondents was medium and high (33.5%, 59.5%).
3-   Educational knowledges level of respondents was medium and high (58%, 24.5%).
4-   Total knowledges level of respondents was medium and high (67.5%, 31%).
5-   Data revealed also that a significant relationship on 0.05 level was found between the dependent variable and each of the educational level of respondents, the number of marriage years, family size, number of knowledges sources
 
 
 

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