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INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAM ON KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE REGARDING KANGAROO MOTHER CARE AMONG POST NATAL MOTHERS HAVING LOW BIRTH WEIGHT BABIES ADMITTED IN GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL AT JHUNJHUNU [RAJASTHAN]

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Introduction: A baby‟s weight at birth is a strong indicator of maternal and newborn health and nutrition. Being undernourished in the womb increases the risk of death in the early months and years of a child‟s life. Kangaroo Mother Care is the method of holding an infant with skin to skin contact, prone and upright on the chest of the parents. This method was described as human incubator low birth weight babies. Kangaroo mother care does not need a sophisticated equipment, can be applied almost anywhere, could contribute to the humanization of neonatal care contains no cost. Methods: A pre-experimental study was adopted for the present study. A structured Knowledge questionnaire and practice checklist on „Kangaroo Mother Care among postnatal mothers having low birth babies‟ was developed to collect the data. Pilot study was conductd from 1 January 2017 to 30 December 2017 to find out the feasibility of the study among postnatal mothers. The main study was conducted from Jhunjhunu at selected hospitals. One eighty postnatal mothers were selected by using purposive sampling technique. Collected data was analyzed and interpreted with help descriptive statistics and inferential analysis. Result: The mean difference between pretest and posttest knowledge was 30 and the „t‟ value was 48.36 and it was found to be highly significant at the level of p<0.05, whereas the mean difference between pretest an posttest practice was 27 and the „t‟ value was 47.0 and it was found to be highly significant at the level of p<0.05. Significant relation was found between pretest knowledge and practice scores with r value of 0.09 at p<0.05. Conclusion: The present study was taken up in an effort to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge and practice of kangaroo mother care among postnatal mothers having low birth babies. STP was effective as denoted by t-value of 48.36 in knowledge scores and 47.0 in practice scores at P<0.05.
KEYWORDS : Kangaroo mother care, Preterm and low birth weight.

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FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF DICLOFENAC SODIUM MATRIX TABLETS USING NEW NATURAL POLYMER

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The aim of this work was preparation and evaluation of diclofenac sodium controlled release matrix tablets using various proportions of natural polymer Abelmoschus esculentus mucilage powder (i.e;Drug: Polymer ratio1:0.25,1:0.5,1:1,1:1.5,1:2) as release controlling factor by Wet Granulation method. The tablets were evaluated for various parameters like friability, weight variation, hardness, drug time, content uniformity. In vitro drug release characteristics of dosage form was evaluated in 6.8 pH phosphate buffer. All the formulations followed zero order kinetics along with diffusion mechanisms.A better sustained drug release (98.7%) was obtained with the matrix tablet (Batch F) of the tamarind gum. Results showed that the drug release from matrix tablets prepared by using natural polymers can be sustained for more than 12 hrs and the drug release vary with concentration of polymer in matrix tablets. A better sustained drug release (50.65%) was obtained with the matrix tablet (Batch C-III) madeup of the carbopol than with the cashew nut tree gum and HPMC. It is cleared through the dissolution profile of Diclofenac sodium from matrix tablets prepared using different polymers were indicated an increase in the polymer ratio retarded the drug release to a greater extent.
KEYWORDS : diclofenac sodium, pH phosphate buffer, drug.