Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Rainbow Nutrition among Mothers in the Selected Urban Pocket

Abstract

Introduction: Good nutrition is highly crucial for the Children’s development-mentally and physically. According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs), fruit and vegetable consumption focuses on health promotion, illness risk reduction, and chronic disease prevention. To gather all of the nutrients our bodies need, different colored fruits and vegetables must be consumed daily. Eat the Rainbow nutrition is about eating many fruits and vegetables of many different color every day, which offer different nutrients to the body. Objective: To assess the knowledge and attitude regarding rainbow nutrition among mothers and associate the knowledge and attitude score regarding rainbow nutrition among mothers with their selected demographic variables. Methods: The research design used for the proposed study was descriptive research                           design and the sampling technique used nonprobability convenient sampling technique. The population in this study is 14 years of child’s mothers who are living in urban area of wardha district. Results: The study result is 22% of mothers were having poor knowledge regarding rainbow nutrition, while 27 (54%) mothers had satisfactory knowledge and 20% subjects had had good and 4% excellent knowledge regarding rainbow nutrition and 74% of mothers were having unfavourable attitude (<50), 13 (26%) were having moderately favourable (51-75%) attitude and none of the mothers having favourable attitude (>75%) towards rainbow nutrition. Conclusion: After finding all results it was concluded that there is a need to improve the knowledge and develop a favourable attitude of mothers towards rainbow nutrition. The study result is 22% of mothers were having poor knowledge regarding rainbow nutrition, while 27 (54%) mothers had satisfactory knowledge and 20% subjects had had good and 4% excellent knowledge regarding rainbow nutrition.