A study to assess the effectiveness of a structured teaching program on knowledge regarding breast crawl among staff nurses working in the labor room in the selected hospital.
Mother Nature equips newborns with a wonderful innate sense of cues. Breast Crawl, demonstrates process of initiating breastfeeding exclusively by baby’s own ability. WHO and UNICEF recommend early initiation of breastfeeding for lower neonatal mortality. Evidences show that early initiation of breastfeeding can prevent 22% of all deaths among babies below one month in developing countries. About 16% of neonatal deaths could be prevented is all infants were breastfed from day 1 & 22% if breastfed within 1st hour after birth. Nurses as health professionals if work in coordination as team to bring forth & promote Breast crawl initiative into maternity hospital; it will be beneficial for Mother and Baby. Methodology: The research methodology adopted for the study was Pre experimental research approach. Consisting of one group pretest-posttest design. A structured teaching programme on Breast Crawl was administered to staff nurses & their level of knowledge was assessed. Semi-structured questionnaire were prepared for assessing the Pre & Post knowledge. Validity was established by the experts. Pilot study was conducted to check the feasibility of the study. The reliability of tool was done by test retest method and Pearson correlation formula. The reliability score was 0.86 which shows that the tool is reliable. Data collection was done on 100 samples by Non- Probability Convenient method. Pretest was taken; structured teaching programme was administered & on the 7th day Posttest was conducted. The collected data was tabulated in the master sheet and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Paired t-test to compare pretest and posttest knowledge scores of staff nurses regarding breast crawl was used. T-value was 31.8. Since p-value is very small (less than 0.05), the null hypothesis is rejected. Average knowledge score in pretest was 6.4, post test was 17.3. The association between knowledge and demographic variables was assessed using Chi square test. Since all the p- values are larger, (> 0.05), there was no evidence against null hypothesis. None of the demographic variables were found to have significant association with knowledge score. Indicating that structured teaching programme on assessing knowledge regarding breast crawl is effective.
Published by: Kalyani V. Makasare
Author: Kalyani V. Makasare
Paper ID: V7I5-1276
Paper Status: published
Published: September 27, 2021
Optimal EEG Channels for emotion detection in humans
A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a system that allows communication between a subject's brain and a computer, without requiring any physical movement. The high-level process for any BCI system is signal acquisition, signal processing and providing output through a physical device. Signal acquisition is done by sensors with multiple channels using invasive or non-invasive methods. The collected data usually contains more than 256 unique channels across the standard 32 sensors. In addition to this, the data is often sampled at a rate of 256Hz for long periods of time, resulting in massive datasets. The critical next step is to preprocess these signals to understand the patterns and changes in the various types of brain waves. However, the intrinsic neurophysiological changes in the brain pose a challenge to the processing of these signals. Identifying the key sensor channels becomes vital not only for the above reason but also due to the large size of the data points captured. This paper is a study on identification of optimal channels for the detection of an emotion such as Fear, one of the primary emotions frequently observed during multiple studies. By detecting channels with highly prevalent features, this study aims to reduce the size of data. The data so optimized can be output to speed up complex classification/prediction algorithms.
Published by: Samarth Kulkarni
Author: Samarth Kulkarni
Paper ID: V7I5-1265
Paper Status: published
Published: September 27, 2021
Pharmacogenomics in Cancer
The science of one’s genetic background and its impact on disease susceptibility and drug response has well established its place in clinics. As many drugs that are currently available in the market are “one size fits all,” but they don’t respond the same way for everyone. These inter-individual differences of drug response can be due to different age, drug-drug interaction, gender, inherited variations in drug disposition or through gene and drug target gene. The impact of Genetic study is mostly observed in the current arena of clinical oncology compared to any other chronic diseases due to several reasons: Toxicity, Critical time & narrow therapeutic index. “Pharmacogenomics” is the whole genome application of Pharmacogenetics, where genomic information is used to study the single gene interactions with drugs by studying the patient’s genetic profile. Their biomarkers hold great promise for the individualization in cancer therapy by selecting the most appropriate medication thereby, applying the optimal dose for each individual patient according to precise markers assisted in screening tests by reducing the toxicity of chemotherapy. Two major aspects considered by researchers while studying the response of a drug in an individual are: how much of a drug is needed to reach its target in the body, and how well the target cells or genes respond to the drug. Overall, the current review summarizes the role of Pharmacogenomics in cancers mainly focusing on Colorectal, Osteosarcoma & Breast Cancer and the advances made in their treatment.
Published by: Melissa Dcunha, Anjali Varma, Vatsal Nisar, Sruthi Menon
Author: Melissa Dcunha
Paper ID: V7I5-1262
Paper Status: published
Published: September 27, 2021
A study on the organic food industry: Consumer perception
This research paper drills deep into the Organic food market. Highlighting the aspect that awareness about the benefits of organic food consumption is already high and after looking at the current incidences of harm to human life because of consumption of unhealthy food products, it is only expected to increase. The research problem is to study the consumer perception towards organic food products in Western Mumbai. The study was undertaken to study the motivations, barriers, awareness levels, and demographic characteristics of our study population w.r.t. organic food products.
Published by: Samarth Agarwal, Vishvesh Mittal
Author: Samarth Agarwal
Paper ID: V7I5-1256
Paper Status: published
Published: September 27, 2021
A study on women entrepreneurship, problems, and prospects in the state of Karnataka
Women entrepreneurs are becoming a frightening force to be reckoned with in the corporate world, and they are not only in it for the money, but also to satisfy their creative urges and demonstrate their abilities. Educated women are playing an increasingly important role in societal transformation, and more women will be entering into previously male-dominated fields in the future. Many women today have built their own economies, or entrepreneurial empires, and are now dominating their world as they desire. With increasing sensitivity to women's position and economic standing in society, the hidden entrepreneurial potentials of women have been gradually altering.
Published by: Shobha Jonathan Prakash, Jesmon Raj N.
Author: Shobha Jonathan Prakash
Paper ID: V7I5-1281
Paper Status: published
Published: September 27, 2021
Structural and Optical properties of Magnetism Oxide and Nickel doped Magnesium Oxide nanoparticles
In this study, un-doped and Ni-doped MgO nanoparticles have been synthesized, through a simple precipitation method. To investigate the effect of Ni-doping on the structure of MgO, the obtained nanoparticles were characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Plate/slice-like morphology was clearly observed in the SEM micrographs. FTIR studies also frequency number 841.06 cm-1 appeared in the stretching vibration of metal oxides Mg-O. The irregular nano-sheets that are assembled together by weak interactions provide the plate-like morphology with an increase in unsaturated Ni atoms, oxygen vacancies, and defect sites which render the plate-like MgO more active for catalytic reactions.
Published by: G. Jayanthi, Kayalvizhi P.
Author: G. Jayanthi
Paper ID: V7I5-1187
Paper Status: published
Published: September 27, 2021
