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рrint ISSN: 2617-2682; online ISSN: 2707-3637; DOI:10.26697/ijsa

More than half of the study participants 142 (56.8%) had average knowledge and 38 (15.2%) had poor knowledge
good knowledge score >5, others 70 (28.0%) had (Figure 2).

Figure 2
Distribution of Knowledge Score Assessment

More than half of the study participants 174 (69.6%) average perception and 34 (13.6%) have poor perception
have good perception score >5, others 42 (16.8%) have (Figure 3).

Figure 3
Distribution of Perception Score Assessment

Discussion Another study in Nalgonda district, Telangana (Kishore
In the present study, majority of the respondents et al., 2018) showed that 29.6% belonged to 21–30 years’
belonged to 21-30 years’ age group (29.6%). Mean age age group, with predominantly female participants
was 47.6 ± 9.8; were females 156 (62.7%), and were (56.1%), 96.6% was Hindus, 62.5% were literates, and
Hindus 206 (82.4%). Most of them lived in joint family 38.4% belonged to middle class similar to our study.
167 (66.8%). Regarding educational status 99 (39.6%) In another study done in Karnataka (Jeratagi et al., 2017),
were illiterate, and rest were literate, only 33 (13.2%) most of them (49.2%) belonged to SES Class IV followed
were unemployed rest of them were employed, majority by Class V (42.8%), where as in the present study, no one
belonged to Socioeconomic Status (SES) Class II and belonged to SES Class V.
Class III as per BG Prasad Classification updated. The present study revealed that most of the respondents
In a similar study conducted in Jharkhand (Asian 226 (90.4%) had heard about SBA, which is similar to
Development Research Institute, 2017), it was found that the studies 91.31% (Pradhan, 2017) and 93.62% were
39.0% of their study participants belonged to 21–30 aware of SBA (Asian Development Research Institute,
years’ age group. Majority were female participants 2017).
(76.0%) and 34.0% were illiterates.

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