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ThesisItem Open Access PERCEPTION OF PARENTS AND ADOLESCENTS ON PARENTING: A SOCIOCULTURAL STUDY(AAU, Jorhat, 2018-03) Begum, Toslima Sultana; Phukan, MinotiParenting is defined as purposeful activities aimed at ensuring the survival and development of children. A better understanding on parenting may be achieved when one can understand how adolescents perceived their parents’ involvement in their upbringing. Children’s perception of parenting are better predictor of their behaviour and psychological development (Buri, 1989 and Paulson, 1994). Again parents and young people can hold quite divergent perception of parenting (Smetena, 1995). Thus a study on “Perception of parents and adolescents on parenting: a sociocultural study” was undertaken in Barpeta district of Lower Assam. Sample comprised of 200 adolescents and their parents. To make the sample representative equal numbers of boys and girls from both rural and urban areas were selected. Adolescents under the age group of 16 to 17 years and who lived with their biological parents were selected for the study. The tools designed was a parenting style questionnaire comprising of 32 items in four parenting styles as subscale .A semi-structured interview schedule consisting of statements pertaining to the objectives of the study was also designed. To collect socioeconomic status and back ground information of the respondent a questionnaire by O.P. Aggrawal was used. Results revealed that Majority of the respondents were follower of Hinduism and belonged to OBC/General category. Majority of the respondents belonged to the nuclear type of family system. Most of the respondent family had their monthly income in the range of Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 9,999 and were belonged to lower middle class families. Rural and urban respondents were not significantly different with respect to their overall socio-economic status. Regarding the perception on parenting style, parents perceived their parenting style as authoritative parenting style with highest mean scores of 33.68 and standard deviation 5.03 followed by authoritarian parenting style (mean= 29.2, SD =5.681). Same as their parents adolescents perceived their parents parenting style as authoritative parenting style with highest mean scores of 33.22 and standard deviation 4.79 followed by authoritarian parenting style (mean= 28.81, SD =5.4). No significant difference was found between urban and rural adolescents in relation to their perception of four types of parents’ parenting styles i.e. authoritative parenting style, authoritarian parenting style, permissive parenting style and uninvolved parenting style. No significant difference was also observed between rural and urban parents in relation to their perception on all four types of parenting styles i.e. authoritative parenting style, authoritarian parenting style, permissive parenting style and uninvolved parenting style. Family income and occupation had positive relationship with authoritative parenting style as perceived by parents and adolescents and negatively associated with parents’ education, number of siblings and overall socio economic status of the family. Perceived authoritarian parenting style by both parents and adolescents had positive relationship with income, occupation, education of parents and number of siblings and overall socio-economic status of the family. No significant gender difference was observed in adolescents’ perception on their parents’ parenting styles and in-between perception of boy’s parents’ parenting style and girl’s parents’ parenting style. Most of the rural and urban parent’s perceived problems in different aspects of parenting which creates stressed on them. Most of the adolescents also had perception on their parents’ problem in parenting them. Developing a parenting module and creation of awareness programmes on different aspects of parenting adolescents inconsideration with contemporary parenting style adopted by parents is needed for both rural and urban parents.ThesisItem Open Access IMPACT OF NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH MISSION (NRHM) ON MATERNAL HEALTH OF RURAL WOMEN OF ASSAM(AAU, Jorhat, 2018-07) Raout, Parboti Prasad; Saikia Baruah, MineravaMaternal mortality is a key indicator for poor maternal health to biological differences alone. To achieve a holistic development, attention should be given more towards the health of the rural women in a realistic manner. Government and different non-government organizations trying to improve the maternal health status of women in rural areas, so they sponsored various schemes and provide incentive to make a healthy nation. One of the major contributions in maternal health is National Rural Health Mission in 2005, which is a centrally sponsored programme for children and women. The utilisation of any scheme depends on the awareness among the beneficiaries. A systematic review of maternal deaths can facilitate identification of health systems failures/gaps and social cultural issues that contribute to death. The present investigation was undertaken to study the Impact of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) on Maternal Health of rural women of Assam, with the objectives : To assess the awareness of beneficiaries of NRHM on different public health care facilities available for improving maternal health of rural women To study the impact of benefits and services of NRHM on maternal health of rural women To identify the problems faced by rural women in availing benefits and services of NRHM To explore the problems faced by the health functionaries in delivering the maternal health services among rural women The study was conducted in four districts of Assam mainly Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Morigaon and Darrang. A multi stage purposive cum simple random sampling design was followed for the present study. The total 500 sample was interviewed for the study. Findings revealed that majority of the 44 per cent of the respondents belonged to the middle age group (26-30), 43.25 per cent respondents were primary passed followed by 23.25 per cent respondents were HSLC passed and 21.50 per cent respondents were illiterate. Majority of the 87.50 per cent of the respondents had done early registration of pregnancy. Majority of the respondents (80%) delivered babies in govt hospital, Almost 44.25 per cent of the respondent didn’t get cash assistance at the time of discharge, but most of the respondents were not able to access the amount because of shortage of fund in account. Majority of the respondents were aware about the services provided at the antenatal period of pregnancy. 39.18 per cent of the respondents were having adequate information regarding the services provided in by the Govt. of Assam in antenatal period, followed by 34.78 per cent of the respondents who aware about services provided at the prepotum or delivery time. There is an association between the attributes awareness and education, age, monthly income and organizational membership. The services and benefits gave a strong impact on improving the maternal health status of rural women. The study has clearly shown that free registration and check-up facility motivate the beneficiaries for regular check-up which minimize risk during pregnancy. The findings also revealed that the provision of cashless delivery promote institutional delivery and avoid the risk of home delivery. Respondents faced difficulty in pregnancy related fatigue which was ranked as first problem of beneficiaries of NRHM. The respondents also faced difficulty due to lack of economic support, followed by non availability of referral services for C-section delivery. The data were collected from rural areas so poor transportation facility was reported as one of the major problem.