Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) is one of the world's largest and most unique programmes for early childhood care and development in India. This study aims to find out the efficiency of anganwadi centres in providing service to beneficiaries and the factors affecting the efficiency. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 200 anganwadi centres in Thiruvananthapuram district. An oper...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program in terms of infrastructure of Anganwadi centers, inputs, process, coverage and utilization of services, and issues related to program operation in twelve districts of Gujarat, India. DESIGN Facility (Anganwadi) based study. SETTING Twelve districts of Gujarat, India (April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013). PARTICIPANTS I...

Improved infant and young child feeding practices have the potential to improve child growth and development outcomes in India. Anganwadi Workers, the frontline government functionaries of the national nutrition supplementation programme in India, play a vital role in promoting infant and young child feeding practices in the community. The present study assessed the Anganwadi Workers’ knowledge...

OBJECTIVE The current study was aimed to assess the facilities and services being provided at the Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) by the Anganwadi workers with regards to the norms laid down by Integrated Child development Service (ICDS) scheme, with special emphasis on the children of 0-6 years of age. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING A resettlement colony of North-West District of Delhi, ha...

Shally Awasthi and colleagues’ DEVTA investigation (published online March 14) purports to have studied 1–2 million children in Uttar Pradesh, India, from 1999 to 2004, half in villages in which vitamin A supple mentation reached 86% of the children every 6 months for 5 years and half in which coverage was assumed to be low. About 25 000 deaths were reported; no diff erence in child mortality w...

This study explores the positive association between healthcare programs of Anganwadi Centers (AWCs) and the infant survival rate in India by using three complimentary log-log regression models. This study employed AWCs’ three services—nutritional aid, immunization, and health-check—targeting pregnant/lactating mothers and children for the performance evaluation. The India Human Development Sur...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the burden of common morbidities for each month in one year, in preschool children. SETTING Anganwadi centers under the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS) in Lucknow, North India. DESIGN Prospective cohort study, METHODS From 153 anganwadi centers in urban Lucknow, 32 were selected by random draw. All eligible children registered with the anganwadi w...

In an Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) block, Alipur, in Delhi, India, interviews were conducted with 100 anganwadi workers (one of whose major functions is growth monitoring) to determine their knowledge on growth monitoring and to identify gaps in that knowledge. Each anganwadi worker serves a population of 1000. 99% had adequate knowledge about the significance of the lines on ...

In North Delhi, India, 83 community workers (anganwadi workers) in the ICDS project Alipur participated in a survey designed to assess their knowledge and attitude about breast feeding and to identify gaps in their knowledge of breast feeding. 98.7% knew that breast feeding should be begun immediately after birth. 92.7% knew that the newborn should receive the colostrum. Only 56.6% knew that...