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Introduction: Women's health during the reproductive or fertile years is relevant not only to women themselves, but also its impact on the health and development of the next generation. Reproductive tract infections are a hidden epidemic leading to enormous health and economic consequences worldwide. Materials and methods:A comparative descriptive study was conducted to assess the knowledge and attitude of urban and rural women regarding Reproductive Tract Infections (RTIs) in selected Urban and Rural areas Guntur Dist. Andhra Pradesh. The study was conducted among the women who are in the age group of 20 years to 60 years. Sample for this study was 75 women from urban area and 75 women from rural area, comprising a total size of 150 and the participants are selected by Simple random sampling technique. Structured Knowledge questionnaire and Likert 5 point attitude scale was used to collect the data. The responses are tabulated, organized, analyzed and interpreted by using descriptive and inferential statistics based on objectives of the study.Results: Findings revealed that half (49.33%) of the respondents from urban area had moderately adequate knowledge and three fourth (84%) of the rural women had inadequate knowledge. Majority (66.66%) of the urban women had highly favorable attitude and most (97.33%) of the rural women had only favorable attitude regarding RTIs. The relationship between the knowledge and attitude level of the urban women (r=0.765) and rural women (r=0.514) revealed that there was strong positive correlation. Conclusion:The study concluded that the knowledge and attitude of urban women was high compared to rural women. There is a need to educate the women on preventive strategies as women are less likely to seek treatment because of the stigma associated with it.

Introduction: Adolescence is a challenging and sometimes difficult stage of life. Television, Movies, Magazine, Music, Videos, Internet and Mobile phones are some of the many ways today's adolescents are influenced. Material and Methods:A descriptive study was conducted to assess the impact of multimedia on adolescents' educational, behavioral and social aspects of life in selected undergraduate colleges of Krishna District, in Maris Stella College and Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada among 100 adolescents of 1st year degree course and the participants selected by using purposive sampling. Semi-structured questionnaire and Likert 5-point scale was used to collect the data. The responses are tabulated, organized, analyzed and interpreted by using descriptive and inferential statistics.Results: Maximum subjects were in the age group of 18 years (50% males and 50% females). Majority (68%) of them were from nuclear family and were Hindu. More than half (52%) were from urban area. Half (53.3%) of the samples had a positive influence of multimedia on educational life of adolescents. More than half (54.8%) of the samples had a positive influence of multimedia on behavioral life of adolescents. 50.8% of the samples had a negative impact of multimedia on social life of adolescents. Conclusion:Adolescents who participated in the study had positive impact of multimedia in their educational and behavioral aspect and had negative impact on social aspect.

The present paper is an attempt to analyze the socio-economic profile of the labour households in rural Punjab. The study revealed that majority of rural labour households belonged to the scheduled caste category. As far as the distribution of sampled rural labour households according to the family type was concerned, it was found that 46.42 percent of the total rural labour households had nuclear families, while the remaining 53.58 percent have joint families. Majority of the rural labourers were living in semi-pucca houses. Further, if we look at the housing condition, 54.72 percent of rural labourers owned the houses of average condition, 40.19 percent owned good condition households and 5.09percent owned dilapidated houses. The analysis further showed that as many as 20.35percentof the sampled labour population was illiterate. A few persons from sampled labour households educated above matric. Although large majority of the sampled labour population were from the working-age group yet the ratio of dependents was high among rural labour households. This was due to lower employment opportunities in rural areas.