Background:The ‘behaviour problems’ are having major impact on child's bodily and social development. The family provides emotional support to an individual as well as plays a major role in the formation of one's personality. The quality and nature of the parental nurturance that the child receives will profoundly influence his future development. The knowledge of these family factors associated with behaviour problems may be helpful to identify at risk children.Aims and Objective:To study the family factors associated with behaviour problems amongst children of 6-18 Yrs age group.Setting:an adopted urban slum area of Govt. Medical College, Miraj Dist-Sangli.Design:Cross sectional study.Materials and Methods:the sample size was calculated based upon 40% prevalence obtained in pilot study. Total 600 Children in the age group of 6-18 years residing in the urban slum area and their parents were interviewed with the help of predesigned, pretested proforma. Analysis: chi-square test and risk estimate with Odd's ratio.Results:Our study result reveals significant association between prevalence of behaviour problems with absence of either or both real parents and alcoholism in the parent or care taker.Conclusion:The behaviour problems have good prognosis if they are recognized earlier. Family has great role in prevention of behaviour problems in children, so parental counseling may be helpful.

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Introduction: The present study aims to find the effect of instruction of negative marking in a self-coded MCQ examination on the performance of students in the subject of Pharmacology with respect to the raw score, correct score and negative score. Material and methods: This longitudinal study was conducted in the Department of Pharmacology, Rural Medical College, Loni. The Second MBBS students were exposed to a self-coded MCQ test twice by surprise. The first test (T1) was given without instructions of negative marking, while during the second test (T2) instructions for negative marking were given. The parameters of the raw score, negative score, corrected score and number of students who did not attempt respective MCQs were calculated. The number of students passing with modified Minimum Passing Level was calculated was compared with conventional Minimum Passing Level. Results: Sixty-seven students participated in the study. There was a statistically significant decrease in the raw score in the T2, while the increase in the negative score when compared with T1. The number of non-attempted questions was increased in T2. There was a statistically significant difference in the number of students passed with respect to raw score in T1 and T2, while no such difference was seen with respect to Negative score and Corrected score. Conclusion: The Corrected score and Negative score are not affected by the minimum passing level, indicating a better parameter of scoring than the raw score. Hence, the use of Negative score or Corrected score should be encouraged than the use of conventional Raw score. Keywords: Minimum Passing Level, Negative Marking, MCQ, Corrected score, Pharmacology, Formative assessment, surprise test, self-coded test.

ABSTRACT:Research question: How many male partners are aware and involved in maternity care of their partners and in child health? Aims and Objective: To study the level of awareness and involvement of male partners in maternity care and child health setting: Head-quarter village of an adopted primary health centre of Bharati Vidyapeeth university Medical College and Hospital, Sangli. DESIGN: Cross sectional study. Material and Method: male partners of women who delivered in last two years of study period, interviewed with the help of predesigned, pretested proforma. Analysis: Using chi-square test. Results: Our study reveals good awareness and involvement of male partners in maternity care. Only educational factor was found statistically significant with increased awareness amongst participants about maternity care and child health. CONCLUSION: Though our study reveals good awareness amongst study participants there is need of more research in the similar topic.