Journal of Nurse Midwifery and Maternal Health

A stem cell is a cell with the unique ability to develop into specialized cell types in the body. In the future they may be used to replace cells and tissues that have been damaged or lost due to disease. The present study aim to assess the knowledge regarding stem cell collection and preservation among 75 women residing at urban areas of Ahmedabad city with a view to develop an information booklet. The research design adopted for this study was Non experimental descriptive research design and non-probability convenient sampling technique was used for data collection. The study was conducted in urban areas of different societies of Ahmedabad city. Data collection tool consist of semi structured knowledge questionnaire with multiple choice questions. Data was analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics. The study revealed that 17.33% samples had good knowledge, 73.33% samples had average knowledge and 9.33% had poor knowledge. Mean score regarding stem cell collection and preservation was 22.73. Among demographic variable Age in years, Education of women, Occupation of women, Marital Status, No. of children, Monthly Income, Religion, Source of information, Have they ever stored their Stem cells, it was found that there was significant association between occupation of women and knowledge of women. Chi square value was 8.171 and calculated P value was 0.016 which was less than 0.05 which indicated that it was significant. After analysis the investigator developed and distributed an information booklet regarding stem cell collection and preservation. Keywords: Stem Cell Collection and Preservation; Umbilical cord blood; Cord blood Transplants.

Injuries are common in sports. Sports injuries result from accidents and due to poor training practices, improper equipment, lack of conditioning, or insufficient warm up and stretching. Each year more than 3.5 million sports-related injuries requiring medical treatment occur in children under age of 15 years.1 a structured teaching programme on sports injuries among high school children is important to make them aware of the sports injury which will enable them to prevent complications. Objectives of the study were to determine the knowledge of sports injuries among high school children by using structured knowledge questionnaire, To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on sports injuries among high school children. And to find out the association of knowledge score of high school children's regarding sports injury with selected demographic variables the findings of the study revealed marked increase in the knowledge level of the high school children. The pre- test and post-test knowledge score of the high school children ranged from 8-19 and 18-26 respectively. In the pre test, majority (91.7%) of the high school children had moderately adequate knowledge, whereas in the post-test, majority (90%) of the high school children had adequate knowledge on sports injury. The mean pre-test knowledge score was 13.6+2.68 and mean post test score was 23.16+1.99. Area wise mean percentage knowledge score in pre test were minimum in the areas of classification (42.99%) and management and prevention of sports injury (36.07%). In the other area the mean pre-test knowledge score was above 60% whereas, in the post test knowledge scores in all the areas was increased, 'introduction' (87.55%), 'classification' (80.91%) and 'management and prevention of sport injury' (70.92%). There was significant association between levels of knowledge score and selected demographic variable like gender (x2=5.38*). There was no significant association between age (x2=5.92), class of study (x2=4.75), religion (x2=0.00), suffering from sports injury (x2=0.58) and previous knowledge on sports injury (x2 = 0.71) at 0.05 level of significance. Keywords: Sports injury; High school children; Structured Teaching Programme.

Prevalence of consanguinity in global context depicts in spite of the widespread detrimental impressions about inbreeding, consanguineous marriage is still quite common in various part of the world, especially in Asia and Africa. Consanguinity is also prevalent in Indian states wide level. The Indian subcontinent is a panorama of diversity in terms of culture, caste, religion, beliefs and attitudes towards customary social practices the present study was conducted to find out the relationship between the consanguineous marriages and fetal outcome among postnatal mothers, A correlative descriptive research used with a convenient sampling of 60 postnatal mothers were selected for the study . The result drawn out are likely to attract at first the educated unmarried to follow the non-consanguineous marriages. Keywords: Consanguinity; Panorama; Fetal out Come and Unmarried.