Rural Women's Knowledge of Child Nutrition in Gharbia Governorate

This study aimed mainly to identify the level of rural women's knowledge of child nutrition in Gharbia governorate. Gharbia governorate has been chosen as spatial field for the study, two districts were randomly selected which are Tanta and Al-Santa districts. Two villages were randomly selected from each of the selected districts. These villages were Shoni and Ikhnaway from Tanta district, and Shobraqas and Shenra Al-Bahreya from Al-Santa district. The research population was delineated as being formed of the whole rural housewives in Gharbia governorate. Random sample of 384 rural housewives with preschool-aged child from the four selected village. Data were collected from sample by personal interview questionnaire. Collected data were coded and analyzed using the SPSS package. The main findings of the study could be summarized as follows:- 1- About 41.9 % of respondents had low and intermediate level of knowledge regarding child nutrition. 2- There were statistically significant bivariate relationships at the level of 0.01 of significance between the number of years of education of the respondents, the number of years of education of the respondents' husband, the number of the child of preschool-aged, the monthly income of the respondents family, informal social participation, possession of household appliances, housing condition, exposure to information sources, media exposure, mental flexibility, attitudes towards health foods and between the variable of respondents' knowledge in the field of child nutrition. 3-The studied independent variables combined explained about 32.2 % of the variance of the variable of respondents' knowledge in the field of child nutrition.