Background: Knowledge regarding danger signs has been found helpful to reduce delays in seeking, reaching and obtaining care during obstetric emergencies. Aims & Objectives: To assess the awareness regarding obstetric and newborn danger signs among pregnant and recently delivered mothers residing in urban slums of Raipur city. Material & Methods: Observational study was conducted among 160 pregnant and 70 recently delivered women residing in urban slums. The assessment of awareness regarding danger signs was done by adding the marks obtained in various phases. Appropriate statistical tests were applied for any association between knowledge score and socio-demographic variables. Results: Subjects knowing at least one key danger sign during pregnancy, labour, postpartum and newborn period was 54.3%, 51.9%, 7.4%, and 11.3 % respectively. Those with age more than 20 years (p value 0.000), joint family (p value 0.000), educated more than 5 years (p value 0.009), and having married and getting first time pregnant after 20 years (p values 0.001 and 0.022 respectively) were found to have significantly more knowledge about danger signs. Conclusions: Knowledge regarding danger signs should be given at the time of every ANC visit and also at follow up visit after delivery.

Background: Large number of factors related to mother and neonates can affects breastfeeding technique. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to know the association of maternal and neonatal characteristics that can affect correct breastfeeding techniques after intervention among post natal mothers admitted in a tertiary care centre.Methods: An institutional-based pre and post interventional study design was used. 414 lactating mothers were contacted during study period.Results: It was found that parity, time of delivery, mode of delivery, birth weight were statistically significantly associated with correct breast feeding technique.Conclusions:This study highlights that correct breastfeeding technique depends on various factors related to mother and neonate.

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic progressive disorder characterized by high levels of blood glucose. Patient's role in medication adherence is inversely proportional to the severity & complication of diabetes. Adherence to medication is essential to obtain a therapeutic benet for diabetes. Hence, this study has been conducted to assess medication adherence among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus attending government healthcare facilities of the Raipur district. To nd out the magnitude of Objective: adherence to prescribed medication among type 2 diabetic patients attending government health care facilities of Raipur district. Material And Method: A facility based cross-sectional study was conducted in government health care facilities selected by simple random sampling of Raipur district during November 2020 to November 2022. A total of 460 patients with more than 6 months duration of type-II Diabetes Mellitus were interviewed by using structured questionnaire after obtaining verbal consent from them. Medication adherence were assessed on Morisky medication adherence Scale (MMAS-8 scale) from the range of 0 to 8. If patients scored maximum 8 considered as high adherence, if patients scored 6-7 considered as moderate adherence, if patients scored of <6 considered as poor adherence. Out of 460 study subjects, it was Result: observed that about 21% were found highly adherent to medications, 28% moderately adherent and 51.1% were showing low adherence for diabetic medication. Overall medication adherence was very low in study s Conclusion: ubjects. It is clear that there is a serious need for healthcare professionals to address the problem of adherence to prescribed medications to individuals with diabetes mellitus