Homeopathic drugs are the most side effect less drugs and many homeopathic practitioners claim about better curing effect of such drugs in children and mothers. Anganwadi workers (AWW) are community based workers, and work as one of the crucial media for the delivery of ICDS services to children and mothers. There is no scientific data available for identifying their knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of homeopathic drugs. Therefore, an instrument has been designed and tested to identify KAP of AWW on homoeopathic drugs. This can be used for motivating AWW to participate in homeopathic drug delivery programs. It would result in sensitizing AWW on usefulness of homeopathy, especially in children. All the AWW from the two specific areas, namely Niali and Kantapada of Cuttack district of Odisha were included in this study. The study was undertaken by a survey that was carried out on a sample of 339 AWW in Cuttack district of Odisha to identify their KAP towards homoeopathy drugs. A bilingual questionnaire was prepared and tested on the AWW subjects. In some instances, the questionnaire items were identified via telephonic interview with the subjects. The questionnaire was tested in terms of its internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and face and construct validity. Their KAP was recorded and analyzed. For the study, it was observed that most of the AWW were young graduates with sound background knowledge on homeopathic medicines. They opine that since these medicines are cheap, there should not be any apprehension for treatment of diseases with such remedies especially in children. Albeit, they lack with a complete idea about the usage of the homeopathic medicines especially about their administration. Since AWW act as the bridge between community and health services, government should emphasize to train all AWW of all the poor states such as Odisha about homeopathic remedies especially their administration. A special drive may be initiated by the government on availability of homeopathic remedies with less or no cost at all health centers for their effective distribution through AWW.
