The cross-sectional descriptive study was done from December 2011 to February 2012 to determine the awareness about lifestyle in controlling diabetes mellitus among the visitors of a tertiary level hospital in Dhaka city. The data were collected by face to face interview using a structured questionnaire. The sample size was 306, which was selected randomly from visitors aged 21 years and above. The mean age of the respondents was 42.97 years, of them 53.60% were male and 46.40 % were female. 231 (75.49%) tested their blood for diabetes, of them 84.42% tested within one year; about 51(17%) respondents were diabetic. Of the diabetic 49.02% was suffering for 1-5 years, and 35.29% for more than 5 years; of the 51 diabetic respondents, 90.12% controlled diet, 88.23% did physical exercise, 72.95% took prescribed medicine and 70.55% took all the measures while 9.80% did nothing for management or control of diabetes. Of the respondents, 19.28% had family history of diabetes. Regarding risk factors for developing diabetes 77.45% mentioned excess intake of sweetmeat, 69.28% lack of exercise, 55.23% family history, 53.92% overweight, 49.02% overeating, and 39.54% mentioned about life style change; 46.73% of the respondents did exercise irregularly and 12.09% regularly; 25% of the total respondent controlled diet regularly and 26.47% occasionally; 86.80% opined excess intake of sweetmeat may increase diabetes and 50.00% said excess intake of all food may increase the diabetes. The study revealed that diabetes mellitus is a multi-factorial disease, since several risk factors appear to play contributory role in its prevalence in the community. Hence, a complex mix of interventions is required at multiple levels to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with this condition.

Knowledge and awareness concerning sexually transmuted diseases (STDs) has become the burning issue of the day. Although STDs pose serious risks to health security, there is very little literature quantifying the knowledge and awareness of these diseases. The aim/of this study /was to determine knowledge and awareness, about STDs among the people in a selected area of Bangladesh. In this descriptive type of cross sectional study an attempt has been made to know the knowledge and awareness among 200 adult people from Keraniganj Upazilla of Dhaka district. Pre-tested questionnaire was used for data collection which includes information regards to STD. The data were compiled and tabulated manually according to key variable-in master sheet. Finally data were analyzed in computer. Majority participants (63%) were female. Most of the individual as 15-25 age group (34%) followed by 26-35 age group (28.5%) and 36-45 age group (23%). The majority of the respondents (82.5%) stated that they had knowledge about STDs, and (17.5%) of them did not have any knowledge at all. Majority (67.5%) acquired the knowledge from media, followed by (21%) friends and (14%) doctors. Out of 200 respondents thought the risk group of STDs mainly identified as by sex worker followed by professional blood donor, drug addict, and bus or truck drivers. Almost 26.5% respondents thought that STDs could be prevented by using condom, avoiding illegal sexual contact (34%4. religious binding (32%), raising social awareness (27%). safe blood donation. It is considered that the awareness and knowledge about the STDs are increasing than the other previous studies but some information needs to be addressed more for affective impact. The findings of this study are believed to serve as an useful basis for further research and planning.

A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among 240 mothers who had children under two years. Mean age of tlw resputulou was 26.73 years. Most of the mother (60.83%) had dtildren tuuler the age group of 6 months. Fifty three pen.ent respondent and their husbands (47.92%) completed primary level of education and monthly im.onte of them was within 5000-10000 !aka in 39.17% (teases. Most of the respondent (78%) thought that breast milk was most safe food for baby and 82% knew what colostrum was. Only 35% of respondents acquired knowledge about breast feeding from donor and health workers and 32% of mothers thought supplementaty foods should start at the age of 3 months. but .19% of mothers started giving supplementary foods at age of 6 months. It was seen that among breast feed children 51% of them frequently felt sick. Majority of the respondent's children (33%) suffered from common cold and cough and 22% suffered front diarrhoea! diseases. Even after a huge mass publicities and mobilization for many years to promote exclusive breast feeding. only 27% mothers know the duration of exclusive breast-feeding correctly as 6 months. Thus it is obvious that there is a large knowledgesto-pradice gap.

A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among women of reproductive age who were attending Gynae out-patient department of Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital. The study was carried out from 2nd week of February to 2nd week of March, 2013. Total 250 women were selected purposively for the study. Data was collected by face to face interview using structured questionnaire, Mean age of the respondents were 26.6 (60%) years and 41% of the respondents were in age group 15-19 years. Most of the respondents (60%) age at marriage were from 21-30 years. Maximum (60%) respondents had their conjugal life up to 10 years. Among the respondents house wives were 50% and 38.4% were well educated. Most of the women (60.4%) got their 1st child within 3-5 years of their married life. About 42.8% women had 2 children and only 1.6% had 5 children. All respondents (100%) had knowledge about contraceptives, oral pill and barrier methods were known to all. Among 250 respondents, 156 (62.4%) were using contraceptives and 94 (37.6%) were not practicing any contraceptives. Among the contraceptives users 48.7% were using oral contraceptives and 16.7% were using Infra uterine device. Maximum 59% respondents were using contraceptives for less than one year.

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