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Background of the study: The world is advancing with a high pace in terms of technology in every field facilitating human habitation. Health care is now a competence-based task with challenges awaiting perfection and precision. Nursing students need to cope up with this speed and learn the basics with technical advancements. Life skills are the core skills that make a person use his/her maximum potential in achieving the challenging tasks in learning. Aim: A cross sectional study to assess the life skills among the Basic BSc Nursing First year students. Method: It was a Descriptive cross-sectional study with a sample of 129 Basic B.Sc. Nursing First year students of Sajjalashree Institute of Nursing Sciences Navanagar, Bagalkot. and Sharadambe Institute of Nursing Sciences Vidyagiri. Bagalkot selected complete enumeration sampling technique. Life skill Assessment Scale was used to collected data regarding Life skills. Chi square test was used to determine the association between global life skill scores of nursing students and their socio demographic factors. Results: the mean age of the sample was 20.42 + 3.6 years 79.1% females, and 20.9% males. The mean global life skill score was 241.50 + 31.09, ranging between 162 to 315. No significant association was found between global life skill scores and socio demographic factors. Conclusion: Most (51.6%) of the Nursing students had average life skills. The nursing students life skills must be strengthened by proper training. Keywords: Basic B.Sc. Nursing, students, Life skill, nursing institution

Background: Every child has a basic need and it is the responsibility of the parents to give them what they need. Everyone wants to be a good parent, but not everyone has mastered the art of good parenting. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess the effectiveness of a Psychosocial Intervention on Perceived Stress and Depression among Children of Alcoholic Parents studying at selected high schools of Bagalkot. Methodology: this was a randomized controlled trial with pre-test post-test control group design. A simple random sample of 4 high schools of Bagalkot out of 10 schools was selected. Then two schools were selected as experimental schools and two were selected as control schools by using lottery method. Children of alcoholics were identified by using the CAST (Children of Alcoholics Screening Test), socio demographic information of Children of Alcoholic was gathered using structured socio-demographic profile and Perceived Stress & Depression were assessed using Cohen’s Perceived stress scale & Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale for Children (CES-DC) respectively. Data were analyzed in terms of objectives of the study. Findings: Result indicates that most of the children of alcoholic of both experiment group (60%) and control group (63.33%) were moderately stressed and most of the children of alcoholic of both experimental group (56.67%) and control group (63.33%) were significantly depressed. A statistically significant difference was found between post test perceived stress score of experimental group and control group subjects [t=8.958,p<0.05]. Similarly, there was a statistically significant difference found between post test depression scores of experimental group & control group subjects [t=6,p<0.05]. No significant association was found between pre test perceived stress scores with their selected socio-demographic variables of children of alcoholic of both experimental & control group. There was a significant association between pre test depression with only family monthly income (χ2=7.847,p<0.05). Conclusion: the findings of the study concluded that the children of alcoholics had perceived stress & depression. The implementation of Psychosocial Intervention to experimental group has decreased their perceived stress & depression effectively as compared to control group. Keywords: Children of Alcoholic parents, Perceived Stress, Depression, Effectiveness, Psychosocial Intervention and Socio-demographic variables.

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The aims of this study are as follows: (1) To assess the knowledge regarding malnutrition among mothers of under-five children. (2) To assess the effectiveness of VATM on knowledge regarding malnutrition among the mothers of under-five children and (3) To find out the association between the knowledge with their selected socio-demographical variables. Study approach- This was a quasi-experimental survey and follow the study design as pre-experimental one group pre-test, post-test without control group. The population involved in this study was mothers of underfive children in Bagalkot. Samples are mothers of under-five children residing in Navanagar. Sample size is 100 (Total) mothers of under-five children were included in the study. Further, data were collected by structured closed ended knowledge questionnaire. After collection, the data are organized and analyzed with the help of mean median and percentage, and the socio-demographic characteristics of mothers of under-five children were as follows: 46% of mothers of under-five children are in the age group of 20-25 years, 35% of mothers belongs to primary education, 59% of mothers are house wife, 38% of mothers are having 15,001-20,000rs, 93% of mothers are Muslims, 71% of mothers are from nuclear family, and 39% of mothers are having 2 children. Percentage wise distribution of mothers according to their knowledge shows that 46% of mothers had good knowledge followed by 36% mothers had average knowledge, 16% had poor knowledge and only 2% mothers had very poor knowledge. After VATM (post test) 86% mothers are having very good knowledge followed by 14% mothers had good knowledge and no mothers of under-five children with average, poor and very poor knowledge. After thorough analysis of the data, researcher concluded that only 46% mothers of under-five children are with good knowledge related to malnutrition. A mother with good knowledge can have healthy children. Hence more study can be conducted by using different method of teaching to achieve optimal knowledge related to malnutrition.