Smartphone is a mobile phone with advanced computing ability, combining the functions of a multimedia player (allowing for music/video storage and playback) and a personal digital assistant (PDA), offering mobile Internet connectivity, built-in GPS and camera, and the ability to run a wide variety of third party applications (such as games, communication software, applications offering weather or traffic information etc. 1 Smart phones have now become an essential part of life. However, despite the convenience it brings to use, sometimes it might affect our daily life in a negative sense. One of the typical examples is the overuse of smartphone. Smartphone can easily get our attention and distracts us. People, especially students, therefore are easily overusing the smart phone. The distractions lower students" productivity and take their time. It also lowers the quality of the work done. 1 Today"s generation do not know of a world that does not include the Internet and easy access to technology. Parents of iGen youth, however, are "digital immigrants". 2 ABSTRACT Background: Smart phones have now become an essential part of life. However, despite the convenience it brings to use, sometimes it might affect our daily life in a negative sense. The objective of the study was to explore the pattern of mobile phone usage among professional college going students in Indore, India also to examine the extent of addictive behaviour towards the usage of mobile phones. Methods: A total of 300 students of different streams having smartphones were surveyed regarding the usage of smartphone considered as population and simple random sampling technique was used. A well-structured and administered questionnaire was used to elicit the responses. The collected data were analysed with the help of various tools and techniques to draw meaningful inferences and conclusion which were obtained using Excel and some using SPSS. The study was conducted during September 2014 to December 2014. Results: In present study maximum number of the students used smartphone around 4 hours daily and mostly the use was for communication & social networking. Majority of students used their smartphone at home, thought that they used smartphone more than expectation, felt uncomfortable without their smart phone, got irritated by frequent notifications of smart phone and got angry when someone interrupts them while using smart phone. Conclusions: Most of the students felt that over uses of smartphones make their lives more sedentary, dry eyes and headache, feel disturbances in their sleep. Also, they spend excess money on mobile recharges although they prefer to use internet over their own creativity for any project.

Background: The physical discomfort and collection of symptoms after digital screen use for longer than two hours at a time is referred by the Vision Council as digital eye strain (DES). Common symptoms of DES are eyestrain, headache, blurred vision, dry eyes and pain in neck and shoulders. This study aims to know about the prevalence; factors associated with and awareness about preventive measures for DES among college students.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted for 2 months in 2017 among randomly selected 200 college students of 20 to 30 years of age in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh using a pre-designed semi-structured questionnaire.Results: Mean age of participants was 22.5 years; of which 58% were females. Of the respondents, 89.5% (179 students) reported experiencing DES. Average distance from digital screen, brightness level of digital device, use of digital device before going to sleep and awareness about appropriate distance of digital screen from eyes had statistically significant association with having digital eye strain. 98% of respondents were unaware of the term DES while >60% did not have knowledge about the harmful blue light emitted by digital devices, protective use of digital screen filters, appropriate distance of viewing digital screen and the 20-20-20 rule of taking breaks in between screen time.Conclusions: Since digital device use is a necessary evil; better ergonomic practices to avoid DES should be adopted. Opportunistic health promotion and patient education undertaken by ophthalmologists on an OPD basis is one solution.

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Background: Only 62% (NFHS-4) of the infants in India are fully immunized which is much less than the desired goal of achieving 85% coverage. To accelerate the process of immunization by covering 5% and more children every year, the Mission Mode has been adopted to achieve target of full coverage by 2020. Mission Indradhanush will target all children under the age of two years and pregnant women with all available vaccines.Methods: It is a cross sectional study done in 3 randomly selected districts of Indore division. The beneficiaries selected were children <2 years and pregnant women. The selection of beneficiaries was done by exit interview technique. Data collection was done by using pre-designed, semi-structured questionnaire which assess the awareness and satisfaction level of the beneficiaries.Results: About 88% were aware about the immunization. Overall 78% beneficiaries agreed that vaccination is compulsory, 62% agreed that vaccination schedule should be followed, 30% beneficiaries considered that vaccination was harmful. Most of the beneficiaries were satisfied with behaviour of the health provider, with all key messages given by health provider.Conclusions: Most common reasons found for drop out or left out were, fear of side effects due to vaccination followed by lack of awareness regarding session sites. Satisfaction level was found relatively low regarding difficulty in finding the place where vaccination was done and distance of session sites.