Demographic & health profile of tribal population of telangana - A cross sectional study

Abstract

Adivasi is the collective term commonly used for the Tribes of the Indian subcontinent who constitute 8.6% of the total Indian population. Apart from high rates of malnutrition and communicable diseases, rapid urbanisation, and changing lifestyles and environment, has led to a rise in non-communicable diseases also. The objective of the study is to determine the socio demographic profile of the study population and to identify the health problems of the study population. A survey based cross-sectional study was conducted between Dec-2021 to Jan-2022in Appapur&Bowrapur villages of Nagarkurnool district,Telanagana. Convenience sampling procedure was followed. A pre-tested questionnaire regarding demographic & health profile was used. Data was entered systematically / scored accordingly in MS-Excel software. The statistical software SPSS version 23 was used for data analysis. Among the total study population, the Mean age was 28.12. Majority participants (66.1%) were females and most of them (72.7%) were Illiterates with 50% population being alcoholics. Generalized weakness was the major health problem seen, and 19.6% population were found to be hypertensive. About 73.2% population were aware regarding the transmission and precautions of COVID and 64.3% aware regarding the vaccination for COVIDAbout one fourth of the study subjects were aged above 45 years and about two thirds were females and Illiterates and were in unskilled occupations. Alcoholism was the major addiction seen in half of the people. Majority population were suffering from generalized weakness. Majority population were aware regarding the transmission, precautions and vaccination for COVID.