Parmita Deb
The objectives of the study is to assess the knowledge regarding household waste management, to identify attitude regarding household waste management among the housewives in selected urban slum areas, Agartala, Tripura West and also to find out the association between knowledge score regarding household waste management among the housewives with their selected demographic variables. The Conceptual Framework based on Modified Pender’s Health Promotion Model is used. In this study housewives of urban slum area were selected as a sample 100 (hundred) samples were selected for the study by non-probability purposive sampling technique. Knowledge level and attitude of the housewives assessed using standardized questionnaire and attitude scale which is modified by 9 (nine) experts of various nursing and medical department as well as by the statistician. Reliability of the tools is 0.70 and 0.84 (r) that was checked using Cronbach’s Alpha correlation coefficient method. Statistical analysis was done by chi square test and frequency distribution table to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding household waste management among housewives in selected urban slum area. The finding of the study revealed that in regarding the household waste and its management among 100 number of housewives (in the age of 18 and its above), 23% of housewives are having adequate knowledge 35% of housewives is having moderate knowledge and 42% of housewives having inadequate knowledge and 20% of housewives is having positive attitude, 33% housewives having average attitude and 47% housewives having negative attitude. There is significant association between the knowledge of the housewives regarding household waste and its management and their selected demographic variable that is educational status and no association between knowledge of the housewives regarding household waste and its management and their selected demographic variable that is age, religion, and size of the family, source of information and income of the family.
