In any community mothers and children constitute a priority group. These considerations have led to the formulation of special Health services for mothers and children all over the World, Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services are one of them. To assess the knowledge and utilization of RCH services among married women of reproductive age group in selected rural area of district Ludhiana, Punjab. A Descriptive study was undertaken to assess the knowledge and utilization of RCH services. A sample of 150 married women of reproductive age group having child of age 1-6 years was selected by convenience sampling technique from rural area of district Ludhiana. Interview method was used to collect the data. The present study revealed that majority 60.7% of subjects were in age group of 24-29 years, 47.3% and 52.7% married women and their husband respectively had elementary level of education. Maximum 90.7% of women were housewives. While majority of husbands were driver and labourer. 71.3% of women had 2 or more child, 82.7% of subjects belonged to joint family and were Sikh. Health personnel were the source of information among majority 67.3% and half 50% of subjects were from upper lower class. 87(58%) subjects had good level of knowledge and 107(71.3%) were adequately utilizing the RCH services. The correlation between knowledge and utilization was found to be 0.086 which was non significant at 5% level of significance. Women and her husband’s Level of education had impact on level of knowledge regarding RCH services. While women and her husband’s education, husband’s occupation, source of information, socio economic status of the family had impact on level of utilization of RCH services among married women of reproductive age group. Study concluded that women of reproductive age group had good knowledge and adequate utilization of RCH services. There is positive relationship between knowledge and utilization and found to be non significant at p˂0.05 level.
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