The Evaluation of awareness of pregnant mothers & reproductive age women about nursing

Importance of mothers general knowledge on proper nutrition facts to prevent nutritional problems, and the aftermath effects on infant growth, have stimulated us to carryout this study. In fact, the objective of this research was to evaluate the basis of general knowledge of number of mothers on the manner of proper nutrition of infants in Iran. For this purpose, 300 mothers aged 18-40, have been evaluated by the “Simple Random Sampling”, method. They filled the questionnaires and participated in a, , face to face,, interview. After scoring the questionnaire, the results have been statistically analyzed.The measuring variables in this research included, general knowledge of proper nutrition of infants, age, level of education, home address and amount of income of the mothers. After statistical analysis of the data,some meaningful relations have been obtained between the above variables and the level of education of the mothers. It was found that 12% of the mothers had poor, 25% good,and 63% excellent knowledge on the nutrition of infants. Although, it seemed that the general knowledge of the mothers could be more or less accepted, but they ought to be more informed and educated in the related areas.