A study to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding behavioral disorders among mothers of school going children

Introduction: Behavioral disorders is a condition child cannot adjust to an environment around them, they become unable to behave in the society acceptable way resulting in exhibition of peculiar behavior.Objectives-The study to assess the level of knowledge regarding behavior disorder among mother of school going children in selected in West Bengal.Design: One group pretest research design. Sample-80 mothers of school going children. Sample technique-Non-probability purposive sampling technique.Results-Analysis revealed that the mean score of knowledge in pre-test was 37.25 and in post-test the mean score of knowledge was 64.87.The calculated 't' value between pre-test and post-test knowledge score was 239.42 which was greater than tabulated 't' value.Therefore, it can be said that, there is a significant difference between pre-test and post-test knowledge score among the mothers of school going children at 0.05 level of significance.The mean score of attitudes in pre-test were 4.62 and in post-test the mean score of attitudes was 7.32.The calculated 't' value between pre-test and post-test attitude score was 18.42 which was greater than tabulated 't' value.Therefore, it can be said that, there is a significant difference between pre-test and post-test attitude score among the mothers of school going children at 0.05 level of significance. Conclusions-The findings of the present investigation show that most of the mothers of the school going children participated in the study were having average score which indicates average knowledge, some of them are having good score which indicates higher knowledge and some of them are poor score which indicates lower knowledge.