1. Awareness of mothers regarding newborn care in Urban slums of Noida: A cross sectional study

2. Introduction
Neonatal mortality and morbidity are the greatest challenges in the current health care scenario.
Majority of neonates die because mothers fail to identify danger signs of illness, and inappropriate or delayed care seeking.
With achievement in reducing IMR from 72 in 2011 to 43 in last 15 years , we are not able to reduce NMR significantly. .

3. Among all other reasons, newborn care practices are one of the major contributors for such high rates of morbidity and mortality.

4. Aim & Objectives
To find out the awareness among mothers regarding newborn care
To find out the essential newborn care practices being followed in Urban slums.

5. Material and methods
A cross sectional study was done among the study population of Urban slums, Bhangel, Noida
All mothers with infants less than 3months of age approaching to the Urban Health Training Centre, Bhangel were taken as a study subjects
Duration of the study was from 1st March to 31st August 2014.

6. Material and methods
Pre tested semi structured questionnaire was used for interviewing mothers.
Study has got prior approval from institutional research and ethical committee
Informed consent was taken from mothers about the participation in this study.
Data was analysed using appropriate statistical softwares.

7. Analysis & Results
Total of 194 women with less then 3months of age infants, approached to the Urban Health training centre, Bhangel during the study period.
Data was entered in Micro soft Excel and analysed by using different statistical softwares.

8. Contd… Women among the study subjects were of age group 20-34years.
Almost 52% women were of lower middle according to Kuppuswamy scale.
Literacy rate among women were found approx. 52% which is less than female literacy rate in India (65.4%).

10. Contd… Occupation wise approx. 87% were house wives.
Awareness among women about danger signs: It was found that approx. 50% women were not aware about the danger signs, 35%c were aware about some and only 15% were aware about the danger signs

11. Cont.....
Association between type of family and mode of feeding i.e. was found statistical significant with a Chi square value 12.9 with P value <.05 at 2d.f.
Association between education of the mothers and mode of delivery was also found statistical significant with Chi square value 6.2 with P value <.05 at 2d.f.
Total institutional deliveries were found approx. 75%.

12. Association between mode of deliveries and awareness of danger signs among mothers were found statistically significant with Chi square value 7.1 with P value<.05 at 2d.f.
Association between mode of deliveries and BCG vaccination was found significant with Chi square value 21.3 with P value<.05.
On time vaccination were received almost 71% of total infants.

14. Discussion
Similar type of study done about mother’s awareness regarding danger signs were done in selected hospital in Trivandrum and result was found the same{3}.
Similar kind of study was done like Awareness and Health Care Seeking for Newborn Danger Signs Among Mothers in Peri-Urban Wardha{4}. Results was found the same that less or no awareness about the danger signs among the mothers{5}.

15. A study was done regarding inadequate Knowledge of Neonatal Danger Signs among Recently Delivered Women in Southwestern Rural Uganda: A Community Survey which also stands with the almost same conclusions

16. References
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17. 6. Jacob Sandberg mail,Karen Odberg Pettersson,Gustav Asp, Jerome Kabakyenga, Anette Agardh Published: May 13, 2014 DOI: 7.