期刊名称：Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2457-1024
出版年度：2019
卷号：38
期号：2
页码：1-8
DOI：10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i230352
语种：English
出版社：Sciencedomain International
摘要：Background: Inadequate health and hygiene practices have direct effect on health of the individual,
family, communities and nation as a whole. The knowledge about different health and hygiene
practices depends largely upon the sources from where we regularly get information. Women tend
to be the primary health information seekers for family and for themselves. Therefore there is a need
to study their information seeking behaviours.
Aim: The present study was conducted with the objectives to identify the information-seeking
behaviour of women regarding household health and hygiene practices, and to ascertain the
relationship of information-seeking behaviour of women with their household and socio-economic
characteristics.
Methodology: The study was conducted in Ludhiana district of Punjab. Two blocks and two zones
were selected purposively from Ludhiana district. Further two villages from each block and two
localities from each zone were selected randomly. Twenty five women from each selected village as
well as from each locality in the age of 25-50 years were selected on random basis. Thus, a total of
200 women formed the sample for the study and data was collected with the help of an interview
schedule.
Results: Information-seeking behaviour was studied in terms of information needs, use of
information source and information source evaluation. Findings of the study revealed that majority of
the respondents i.e. 59 per cent had low information needs for selected household health and
hygiene practices. Informal sources were the most frequently used sources of information whereas
use of all information sources by most of the respondents (98%) was found to be low. Around 40 per
cent of the respondents never evaluate the source of information while looking for information on
household health and hygiene practices. Half of the respondents (50%) had active informationseeking behaviour regarding household health and hygiene practices.
Conclusion: Information-seeking behaviour of the respondents was positively correlated with their
education, occupation and mass media exposure while age of the respondents and the family type
were negatively correlated with their information-seeking behaviour.
关键词：Information-seeking behavior;information needs;information sources;household health and hygiene practices.
