Abstract
The present study aims basically at an assessment of the knowledge of rural area women the family care domain. The research also aims at specifying the relationship and difference between rural women knowledge and the independent related variables. Women in the two villages of AL-Shraikhan and Qubba in Nineveh governorate areas, random sample forming a percentage of 10% using a questionnaire form (a test method) prepared specially to asses the knowledge of rural area women in this domain, the first part of it consists measuring of independent variables, the second part of it consists test to measure rural women level in family care domain it consists of (26) items regard with (children bighting care, baby healthy care, and family members nutrition care). after making sure of its' validity, its' reliability was measured using half split method. Then, the data were analysis using statistical tools: Mean, Person Coefficient, Kroscal Wells, and Stepwise Regression. The results showed that 88.66% of rural women have middle or high level knowledge, the results also showed that the knowledge level of rural women in family care is not related to: age, family previous work , type of family number of females in the family and number of children in the studied family , Her knowledge in family care is related to martial status , educational level of the subjects, family level of education, standard of living
