Introduction: Academic stress is anxiety and stress that comes from schooling and education. There is often a lot of pressure that comes along with pursuing a degree and one’s education. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used to find out academic stress and relationship of academic stress with parent-adolescent relationship, and academic achievement which was conducted in two college of Kathmandu Metropolitan. Study populations were students of the management stream who were studying in class XII. This study adopted non probability purposive sampling method to select college of Kathmandu metropolitan whereas simple random sampling with lottery method was used to select sample of 253 students. Data was coded, categorized and then entered into SPSS 16 and analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The findings revealed that nearly half of the respondents (47%) had moderate academic stress and 23.7% have high academic stress. Regarding overall level of relationship with both parents more than half of the respondents (64.4%) have favorable relationship. There is significant relationship between academic stress, academic achievement of previous level and association was seen between academic stress and mother’s education. Students have moderate and high academic stress in their academic path. Irrespective of parent adolescent relationship, majority of adolescent had low or moderate academic stress, research hypothesis was rejected. Respondents who have scored higher grade or academically achieved comparatively had high academic stress, research hypothesis was accepted. Conclusions: Academic staffs and related concerned authorized individual need to identify early as interventions to assess students' academic stress, in order to reduce academic stress, helps to improve the quality of life and mental health for students.

Neonatal period is the most vulnerable period of the survival of the child, so good neonatal care practices is crucial for the prevention of morbidity and mortality of a neonate. Descriptive cross-sectional study design with 219 Muslim women having less than 1year old babies were selected by probability sampling technique to find out the neonatal care practices. A semi-structured interview schedule was used for data collection. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Early marriage and illiteracy is common in these Muslim communities. Only around half (49.8%) of mothers had sufficient neonatal care practice. However, there is good eye care practice in those communities. All of the mothers practiced oil massage to their babies once or more than one time in a day. Regarding breastfeeding, more than four fifth (83.87%) of mothers fed exclusively to their newborn; 13.24% mothers had home deliveries, among them 75.85% of deliveries were assisted by unskilled personnel. The significant association was found between level of neonatal care practice and age of mother (p-value 0.024). Likewise, mother's education is also associated with the feeding of colostrum (p-value 0.038). Insufficient neonatal care practiced was predominant among mothers of those Muslim communities so there is need for strengthening community awareness by mobilizing female community health volunteers (FCHVs). Home delivery by unskilled personnel is very common so they should be motivated for institutional delivery and completion of the recommended antenatal visits.

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