Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Daneshwari Onkari ¹, Sunanda Itagi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development, College of Rural Home Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

A study on occupational stress of women police was carried out in the year 2014-15 in Dharwad taluk, Karnataka state with the objectives to assess the occupational stress of women police and to know the relation between selected demographic variables with occupational stress of police. A total of 60 police belonging to 21-60 years age group were randomly selected from 22 police stations of Dharwad taluk. The occupational stress was assessed using occupational stress scale developed by Srivastav and Sing (1984) socio economic status was assessed using socio-economic status scale developed by Agarwal et al. (2005) and self structured questionnaire were used to collect information. The data was collected through questionnaire method along with personal interview of the respondents. The results revealed that 60.00 per cent of women police had moderate level of occupational stress while 36.67 per cent had high and only 3.33 per cent had low level. Occupational stress was significantly and positive related to duty period and distance from residence pointing out that higher the duty period and greater the distance from residence higher was the occupational stress. There was significant and negative relationship between family size and occupational stress indicating that increase in family size decreased the stress. There was no significant relationship between age, education, marital status, work experience, opinion about work, socio economic status and occupational stress.

Keywords

Occupational Stress, Police Women, Role Overload, Role Conflict.

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Daneshwari Onkari ¹, Sunanda Itagi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department ofHuman Development and Family Studies College of Community Seienee University of Agrieultural Seienees, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

The research on socio-emotional behaviour of orphans was conducted in the year 2016-2017 in Dharwad taluka, Karnataka state with objectives to study the prevalence of orphans and to know their socio-emotional behaviour. Data was collected using Childbehavior checklist developed by Achenbach (2001) socio-economic status scale by Agarwal et al., 2005 and self structured questionnaire to collect auxiliary information. Prevalence study was conducted in Dharwad taluk Karnataka. About 60 orphans were randomly selected trom the prevalence to know their socio-emotional behaviour. Results revealed that 47.06 per cent of the orphans were in the clinical range category of socio-emotional behaviour which indicates that they are in need of immediate and effective intervention stratergies. Around 35.29 per cent and 14.71 per cent were under normal and borderline category of socio-emotional behaviour respectively. There was significant relationship between age and gender with respect to socio emotional behaviour of children.

Keywords

Socio-Emotional Behaviour, Orphans, Status and Prevalence.

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Pooja Patil ¹, Sunanda Itagi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

The Siddis are the primitive tribal group of Karnataka which are lagging behind the demographic, social and economic indicators. Till date health and nutritional status among tribal populations have been investigated by number of researchers, but there is dearth of researches particularly concentrating on Siddi tribal community. Therefore, it is worth investigating the changing perspectives of nutritional status of Siddi tribal mothers. Study was conducted on 60 Siddi tribal and 60 non-tribal mothers (18-49 years age group) from 6 villages of Dharwad and Uttar Kannada districts of Karnataka state during2017. Structured interview schedule was used for collection of personal characteristics. Nutritional status was assessed by using anthropometries measurements. Results indicated that, 39 % of mothers (tribal & non-tribal) had ideal body weight and equal percentage of them exhibited overweight and obese (25.0%) and only 11 % were underweight. No significant difference and association were observed in the body mass index and waist hip ratio of tribal and non-tribal mothers. Body mass index was significantly associated with socio-economic status of rural mothers but not observed in Siddi tribal mothers indicating that prevalence of obesity increases with increases in socio-economic status. No significant relationship was found between body mass index and education of tribal and non tribal mothers.

Keywords

Siddis, Tribes, Nutritional Status, BMI.

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