A Study on Awareness and Utilization of Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY) Services among Adolescent Girls in Urban Area of Davanagere Taluk
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 12
Abstract
Background: Adolescence is an in-termediate phase of development between childhood and adulthood. In 2000, Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY) was initiated with aim of im-proving nutrition, health status and empowerment of adolescent girls. Objective: To assess the awareness and utilization of KSY services among adolescent girls and the fac-tors influencing them. Methodology: A community based cross-sectional study was conduct-ed among adolescent girls of urban Davanagere. A house to house sur-vey was conducted among 376 girls; the data was collected by interview method, analyzed using SPSS (v16). Results: The mean age of adolescent girls was14.21 years; only 123 (32.7%) knew about KSY services. Supplementary nutrition services were utilized by only 100 (26.5%) adolescent girls, 96 (25.5%) attended health education sessions, 44 (11.7%) received iron and folic acid tablets but none of them utilized vo-cational training services. Reasons for poor utilization were lack of awareness, lack of motivation to avail services and unsuitable tim-ings. Conclusion: This study observed poor awareness and utilization of KSY services. The need of hour is to spread more awareness and in-crease participation of adolescent girls addressing at individual, fami-ly and community levels.
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Swathi S Aithal, Sandhya Rani Javalkar, Satish Ghatage
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