Abstract: Housewives often have less time available to maintain their health due to typical homemaking duties, which include maintenance of familial dietary life and child care. Women's social participation has recently increased the number of working housewives, resulting in changes in dietary patterns and also, the use of instant and processed foods has increased for reasons of convenience. The study was focused to find the nutritional status and stress level among the home makers in kanyakumari. The questionnaire in Google form was used to collect the data about socio-demographic profile, anthropometric status, dietary pattern and stress level among 51 homemakers. About 10% of the subjects were underweight, 33% were with normal BMI, 51% overweight and 6 % of the subjects were under grade I obesity. Nutrient intake was analyzed and found that energy, carbohydrate, protein, fibre, iron and calcium was deficit and intake of fat was found to be in excess. Perceived stress scale was used to assess the stress level of selected homemakers and found that 25.49% of the subjects had moderate stress, 31.38% of the subjects were under high stress category and 43.13% of the subjects had very low stress. Nutrition education was provided through e-platform. E-Poster on consequences of obesity, healthy food choices and physical activity was created and posted through e-platform. It was concluded that the nutritional status of the home makers was comparatively low, the stress level was found to be moderate to high and there is no relationship between nutrient intake and stress level.

Keywords: Housewife, nutritional status, stress, nutrition education.

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2021.8590