Existing knowledge of the underprivileged women for various health and nutritional practices

A study was undertaken in Masinadih village of Samastipur district, Bihar, to know the existing knowledge of the Underprivileged women for various health and nutritional practices. For this the developed knowledge test was subjected to the 50 respondents. For this purpose, primary data have been collected. The findings of the present investigation indicate that most of the respondents 58% were in the category of medium knowledge with mean percent score of 66.95 while 40% percent respondents were in the category of low knowledge with mean percent scores of 45.96 and 8% percent respondents were in the category of high knowledge with mean per cent scores of 100.