Assessment of Performance of Services for Three to Six Years Old Children in Urban Anganwadi's in Kozhikode Corporation in Kerala: A Cross Sectional Study Sivakumar D.1,*, Deepika2 1Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Government Thiruvannamalai Medical College, Thiruvannamalai 2Medical Officer, Kanchipuram District Hospital, Tamilnadu *Corresponding Author: Dr. Sivakumar D., Assistant Professor, Department of Community medicine, Government Thiruvannamalai Medical College, Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, e-mail: kumarsiva2010@yahoo.com, Mobile: 08056458035
Online published on 31 March, 2020. Abstract Introduction Integrated Child Development Services is the largest national programme for the development of mothers and children in the world. The services are rendered through Anganwadi worker (AWW) at Anganwadi centre (AWC). An evaluation study is carried out toassess the services provided by the anganwadi centres to 3 to 6 year old children in Urban ICDS blocks in Kozhikode Corporationto study the shortcomings in implementation, improving the services and in decision making of the programme. Method A cross sectional descriptive study was carried out in 4 urban ICDS blocks in Kozhikode. Data was collected using pretested semi structured questionnaire and by observation of anganwadi centres and records at the time of visit and interviewing anganwadi workers and anganwadi helpers. Results Among 117 anganwadi centres, 73(62.4%) of AWC's provided average services to 3 to 6 year old children, only 26(22.2%) of centres provided good services and 18 (15.4%) of AWC's with poor performance needs to be targeted for improvement. Conclusions There is a need for effective coordination between the health functionaries and the anganwadi workers in immunisation, growth monitoring, health checkups and referral services, nutrition and health education. Top Keywords Supplementary nutrition, Preschool education, Health checkups, Referral services, Immunisation, Health education. Top |