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Background: Kangaroo Mother Care is the method of holding an infant with skin to skin contact, prone and upright on the chest of the parents. This method was described as human incubator for low birth weight babies. Since large number of deliveries occur in hospital now a days we require that sufficient knowledge should be created enough to mothers regarding "quality mothering" through natural and universally approved easily applicable way of Kangaroo Mother Care among staff nurses. Neonatal nurses, however, play a pivotal role in facilitating the attachment process by promoting early parentinfant contact through encouraging parents to touch, hold and care for their infant as well as establishing collaborative and positive relationships with the parents

Methods: The research approach and design adopted for the study was descriptive survey approach. The population consisted of maternal child health nurses in Mysore. Purposive sampling technique was used. The data was collected using personal profile, structured attitude scale. Structured practice checklist is used to assess the attitude and practice of maternal child health nurses regarding the use of kangaroo mother

Results: Majority (50%) of the maternal child health nurses belong to the age group of 20-25 years and majority (96.67 %) of them were females. 80% of the participants belong to Hindu religion. Majority (90%) of them had their educational qualifications as Diploma in nursing and majority (46.67%) had clinical experience below 5 years. The mean score is 35.03 with standard deviation of 6.56. Practice scores of maternal child health nurses ranged from 4-11. The mean score is 8.433 with standard deviation of 2.04. Majority (93.33%) of maternal and child health nurses had positive attitude and only 4(6.7%) had negative attitude towards use of kangaroo mother care. Majority (66.7%) of maternal and child health nurses had poor practice and only 20(33.3%) had good practice in the use of kangaroo mother care.

Conclusion: The recent concept of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) or the skin to skin care is an economical, acceptable and practical way for maintaining temperature of the LBW neonates. Promoting kangaroo mother care is one way neonatal nurses can enhance closeness between parent and infant. In the present study, majority of maternal child health nurses reported of positive attitude, but it is not practiced in their clinical setting. Hence, the purpose of this study was to survey the attitude and practice of maternal child health nurses in the use of kangaroo mother care and examine in greater depth, issues and concerns nurses may have in promoting KMC in their area of clinical practice.

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Aims and objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the level of knowledge regarding female foeticide among the adolescents in selected urban areas in Mysore.

Approach and design: In the study, exploratory descriptive survey was used.

Samples and sampling criteria: The knowledge was assessed among 30 adolescents. The level of knowledge was measured by using structured interview schedule regarding female foeticide. The data were collected and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results: Results of the study revealed that, the mean level of knowledge scores was 11.066 with SD±2.247, ranged from 8-15 and there is no significant association with any variables.

Conclusion: Thus study concludes that the adolescents should get enough awareness regarding female foeticide. As health professionals it's the responsibility of us to conduct some awareness programe to improve their level of knowledge.

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Background: All parents wish for a healthy baby but some parents though not by their choice are gifted with mentally retarded child. Some are able to cope up with such a situation and some experience psychological stress. Mothers of mentally challenged children showed more psychological distress like (denial, shock, anger, grief, guilt, embarrassment, depression, with drawl, ambivalence and fear of stigma) than other member in their families, as they are the primary caregivers for their children.

Aim: The present study was aimed to assess the psychological problems of mothers with mentally challenged children in selected special schools at Mysuru. Methodology: A descriptive survey approach was adopted for the present study. The samples were selected using Non- Probability purposive sampling. 100 mothers of mentally challenged children were selected for the present study. Data was collected with the help of following tool Proforma for selected personal variables and self administered rating scale to assess the psychological problems.

Results: Collected data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of the present study revealed that majority of the mothers were having moderate psychological problem. There is a significant association the between level of hopelessness and their age at 0.05 and it was found not significant with other variables. There is no significant association found between the level of helplessness, sadness, social isolation and agitation of mothers with mentally challenged children and their selected personal variables.

Conclusion: Mothers with mentally challenged children were having moderate psychological problems. Caring a mentally challenged child can produce great stress and a sense of imbalance in the mental health especially for mothers. Thus these mothers are in need of a wide range of support and educational programs that offer broad information about mental retardation along with therapeutic and effective strategies to address these stressors, improve their mental health and prevention of psychological problems.

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Aims and objectives: The aim of the study was to screen anaemia among rural women (18-45yrs) in the selected rural area of Mysore with a view to develop an information booklet

Approach and design: In the study, exploratory descriptive approach was used.

Samples and sampling criteria: The Anemia was screened among 90 rural women by Sahli-Hellige method.

Results: Results of the study revealed that, 13.33% of women belongs to normal (>12gm/dl), 32.22% of women belongs to mild (10-12gm/dl) anaemia, 28.89% of women belongs to moderate (8-10gm/dl) anaemia and 25.56% of women belongs to severe (<8gm/dl) anaemia.

Conclusion: Thus study concludes that, there it is a need to strengthen the activities related to anemia in rural area.

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Materials and Methods: A descriptive survey was adopted. The sample of 30 people living with HIV/AIDS receiving Anti-retroviral therapy was selected by using random sampling technique. The data collection tools consist of Personal profile, structured interview questionnaire method by using WHO QOL-BREF instrument.

Results: The data analysis was done using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings of the study revealed that Psychological domain scored low scoring about quality of life.

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Aims and objectives: The main aim of the study was to assess the level of knowledge among rural women regarding menopausal changes in selected rural areas of Mysore. Approach and design: In the study, pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test design was used.

Samples and sampling criteria: Convenient sampling technique was adopted to select 30 rural women. The knowledge was measured by using structured knowledge questionnaire regarding menopausal changes. A structured teaching programme was conducted for the samples. The data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Result: The results of study revealed that the significance of difference between the mean pre-test and mean post-test knowledge scores which was statistically tested using paired 't' test and was found to be highly significant at 0.05 level of significance. The results also show that the knowledge scores of rural women had no significant association with their selected personal variables like age, education, religion, occupation, type of family, marital status, previous exposure to any awareness programmes, Utilization of services, sources of awareness, illness, number of children, attainment of menopause, use of contraceptive, type of contraceptive, mode of delivery,

Conclusion: Therefore, the study concluded that the administration of structured teaching programme was an effective method to improve the knowledge of rural women regarding menopausal changes.

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Introduction: In India, Infectious disease is major public health issue .India suffers significant population losses each year from infectious diseases.

Aims and objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the level of knowledge regarding tuberculosis among the adults in selected rural areas of Mysore also to find the association with their selected variables.

Approach and design: In the study, exploratory descriptive approach was used.

Samples and sampling criteria: The knowledge was assessed among 30 adults. The level of knowledge was measured by using structured interview schedule regarding TB. The data were collected and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results: Results of the study revealed that,50% of the adults have good knowledge about TB and there is no significant association with any variables.

Conclusion: Thus study concludes that the adults should get enough awareness regarding TB. As health professionals it's the responsibility of us to conduct some awareness programe to improve their level of knowledge in tackling the problem of TB in India.

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