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Background: Feeding infants with cleft lip and palate is one of the most challenging and worrying events in a mother’s life. When the baby fails to thrive, the mother becomes anxious as the effort goes futile which may inhibit maternal bonding with the child leading to other consequences. Hence, our aim was to assess the attitudes of mothers towards feeding their babies with cleft lip and palate.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among mothers of children with cleft lip and palate at a cleft center in Hyderabad city. The mothers were interviewed using a self-administered questionnaire on a 3-point Likert scale. The collected data were subjected to statistical analysis using SPSS version 22.Results: A total of 96 mothers participated in the study. Among them a majority of them bottle fed their baby (85%). Escape of milk through nostrils was reported to be the most common problem faced by the child (30%). The attitudes of mothers were categorized into good (29%), moderate (62.5%) and poor (28%). Also there was a significant difference between the educational qualification, household income and clinical diagnosis with the attitude of mothers.Conclusions: In the present study, a majority of them had moderate attitude. Personal and professional care and support are the key factors influencing the mothers’ attitude.
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Aim: The aim of the study is to know the opinion of the passengers travelling by bus in receiving oral health information in bus stands through various methods, and to know their knowledge, attitude and practice regarding the oral health. Material and Methods: A Cross-sectional study was carried out at ten bus stands of Ranga Reddy district, Telangana State. A 400 passengers were decided to be included as subjects to obtain information by interview method with a pretested questionnaire, for the sake of convenience as sampling was difficult. Descriptive statistics and chi-square test was applied using SPSS version 20.0. Results: A total of 400 passengers completed the survey. Eighty-five percent of the passengers agreed that bus stands should have oral health related information. Forty percent of the passengers preferred to receive oral hygiene instructions printed behind the ticket followed by posters and through television. Fifty-five percent of passengers preferred that oral health informative posters should be pasted near platforms. Conclusions: Majority of the passengers preferred to receive oral health information in bus stands. Hence, efforts should be directed by government in spreading the oral health information among public through this mode too.