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An Assessment of Skin Diseases in People and Their Quality of Life in Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh 北方邦本德尔坎德邦地区人群皮肤病及其生活质量评估

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Indian Journal of Community Health Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.006

Manish Kumar, Shilpi Singh, S. Barman, L. Singh, Navin Kumar, S. Barman

{"title":"An Assessment of Skin Diseases in People and Their Quality of Life in Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh","authors":"Manish Kumar, Shilpi Singh, S. Barman, L. Singh, Navin Kumar, S. Barman","doi":"10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.006","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Skin diseases occur in all age groups in developed and developing countries. Various types of skin diseases are found worldwide and depend on factors like environment, surrounding ecology, dietary habits, socioeconomic status, mental health, and literacy. Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) improves after treatment or cure of the diseases.\u0000Objectives: To estimate the pattern of skin disease. To find out the quality of life and association of skin disease with sociodemographic factors among patients.\u0000Methods: This observational cross-sectional study was done in skin OPD at the tertiary care center, Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, India from May 2022 to July 2022. All patients who attended to skin OPD during study period were included in the study after taking informed verbal consent.\u0000Results: Skin diseases had further divided in subcategories which were infectious conditions, pigmentary disorders, inflammatory dermatoses, miscellaneous skin conditions, benign tumor and other lesions with their percentage 44.8, 10.5, 28.6, 7.1, 2.9 and 6.2%, respectively in this study Classes of DQLI where major portion of patients (49.52%) were in ‘Small effect on patient’s life’ category. The relation of\u0000age, religion, education and member of household with history of skin disease were found to be highly statistically significant. Conclusion: Infectious skin diseases were found more common in study area. Male populations were more commonly affected. Skin diseases were more common in age group of 18–60 years. Study participants showed no predominant effect on quality of life. But small effect class had major effect on participant’s quality of life.","PeriodicalId":13363,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Community Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48500945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Identifying Pre-hypertensives in the Community: At Risk Approach for Prevention of Hypertension 在社区中识别高血压前期:预防高血压的高危方法

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Indian Journal of Community Health Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.007

Pallavi Singh, V. Saxena

{"title":"Identifying Pre-hypertensives in the Community: At Risk Approach for Prevention of Hypertension","authors":"Pallavi Singh, V. Saxena","doi":"10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.007","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Pre-hypertension is a borderline health state of increased blood pressure (BP) that falls short of the measurable parameters at which surveillance and/or therapy would be required. The approach of identifying people “At Risk” of developing hypertension can be more cost-effective and feasible for applying lifestyle interventions.\u0000Objectives: The objective of the present study is to find the prevalence of pre-hypertensives and associated bio-socio-demographic factors\u0000Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1946 participants aged 19 years and more in the Doiwala block of Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Multistage sampling was used to arrive at desired sample size. A pre-validated, structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The questionnaire included information on the socio-demographic profile (age, sex, education etc.), awareness about hypertension and its associated risk factors.\u0000Statistical Analysis: The chi-square test was used to compare proportions and draw inferences.\u0000Results: 958 (49.2%) study participants out of a total 1946 were found to be pre-hypertensives. A statistically significant association was found between pre-hypertension and factors such as male gender, age, education, occupation and waist-hip ratio. (p<0.05) Conclusion: It is recommended that identification on the pre-hypertensive group and subjecting them to lifestyle modification could be a fruitful strategy for preventing them from becoming hypertensive.","PeriodicalId":13363,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Community Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41359333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Effects of Child Abuse and Neglect on Oral Hygiene and Nutrition in North Indian School Students: A Cohort Study 儿童虐待和忽视对北印度学童口腔卫生和营养的影响:一项队列研究

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Indian Journal of Community Health Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.018

Prerna Singh, Amita Sangwan, S. Singh, Shalini Gupta

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Utilization of Reproductive and Child Health Services and Client Satisfaction from Urban Primary Health Centers by Recently Delivered Women Living in Urban Slums of Lucknow, India 印度勒克瑙城市贫民窟新近分娩的妇女对城市初级保健中心生殖和儿童保健服务的利用及客户满意度

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Indian Journal of Community Health Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.002

Santosh Kumar, M. Agarwal, Prabhaker Mishra, C. M. Mishra

{"title":"Utilization of Reproductive and Child Health Services and Client Satisfaction from Urban Primary Health Centers by Recently Delivered Women Living in Urban Slums of Lucknow, India","authors":"Santosh Kumar, M. Agarwal, Prabhaker Mishra, C. M. Mishra","doi":"10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.002","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Due to rapid urbanization, there is an increase in population in slums often lacking access to basic health services. Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the utilization of reproductive and child health services by recently delivered women and their children residing in catchment areas of urban PHCs, to evaluate their level of satisfaction and to determine the\u0000factors associated with utilization of these services by recently delivered women.\u0000Settings and Design: The study was conducted in the catchment areas of urban primary health centre of Lucknow.\u0000Methods and Material: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 320 women having children less than 24 months in the slums covered under selected U-PHCs, sampled through a multi-stage random sampling technique using a semi-structured questionnaire.\u0000Statistical analysis used: SPSS-26 and MedCalc software were used for data analysis.\u0000Results: Utilization of RCH services by recently delivered women from UPHC was 39%. About 24% of recently delivered women availed ANC services from UPHC and 56.7% utilized family planning services and 95.8% immunization services for children. Child care services for diarrhea and ARI were availed by 9.9 and 3.1% of women, respectively. Satisfaction regarding maternal care and immunization services was seen in 84 and 95.8% of women. Poor satisfaction regarding child care was seen in 56.5% of women.\u0000Conclusions: The utilization of RCH services was found to be poor in the study population. Most recently delivered women\u0000were satisfied with all services except child care.","PeriodicalId":13363,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Community Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45800395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Epidemiological Determinants of Depression among the Geriatric Population Residing in a Slum of Urban India: A Cross-sectional Study 居住在印度城市贫民窟的老年人抑郁症的流行病学决定因素：一项横断面研究

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Indian Journal of Community Health Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.014

Jaishree S Shinde, R. Kamble, Jaya M Tale, D. Rao

{"title":"Epidemiological Determinants of Depression among the Geriatric Population Residing in a Slum of Urban India: A Cross-sectional Study","authors":"Jaishree S Shinde, R. Kamble, Jaya M Tale, D. Rao","doi":"10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.014","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Worldwide interest in geriatric depression has increased but studies to assess the depression among the elderly population in urban slums has hardly been done. So this study would shed light on the risk factors of depression among geriatrics in urban slums.\u0000Aim & Objective: To study the epidemiological determinants such as age, marital status, education, financial dependency, economic status and chronic illness in relation to of depression among the geriatric population (60–80 years).\u0000Settings and Design: Community-based, cross-sectional study for 24 months with a samplesize of 209.\u0000Methods & Material: Urban slum area represented by one health post was selectedas the study area which caters to around 96,630 slum residents. Pre-tested semi-structuredinterviews were conducted after selecting households by systematic random sampling. Statistical analysis: Data was analyzed using SPSS version 21. A chi-square test was applied.\u0000Result: The present study shows overall prevalence of depression among the elderly above 60 years of age to be 48.6%. Depression is found to been significantly associated with an increase in age, living alone (72.7%), lower class economic status (100%), financial dependency (54%), history of chronic family illness (54.7%) and with no formal education (62.1%) among elderly dwelling in slums.\u0000Conclusions: There is a high prevalence of depression in the community and hence, a need to sensitize Primary level Health Care Services to institute screening tests considering the association of these determinants with depression and link them to specialized services for further management.","PeriodicalId":13363,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Community Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44832441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Perceptions of Private Practitioners Regarding Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program- A Cross-sectional Study in Sonepat, Haryana 私人执业医师对修订后的国家结核病控制计划的看法——哈里亚纳邦Sonepat的横断面研究

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Indian Journal of Community Health Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.008

Vijay K Silan, R. Verma

{"title":"Perceptions of Private Practitioners Regarding Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program- A Cross-sectional Study in Sonepat, Haryana","authors":"Vijay K Silan, R. Verma","doi":"10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.008","url":null,"abstract":"Background: A substantial proportion of tuberculosis patients either take treatment from private care providers or first-time visit private hospitals to diagnose tuberculosis. Hence the role of private providers is too essential to ignore to realize the ambition of tuberculosis elimination in India.\u0000Aim and Objectives: To understand the perception of private practitioners of Sonepat district of Haryana state regarding. Setting and Design: A cross-sectional study was done among the private practitioners of the Sonepat district of Haryana Methods and Material: 78 randomly selected practitioners from the list provided by the district health authority were interviewed using a pretested semi-structured questionnaire. The ethics committee of the study institute approved the study.\u0000Statistical analysis used: Descriptive analysis in terms of proportion and percentages was conducted.\u0000Results: One-third of the study participants were in the age group of 30-40 years. Half of the practitioners were reportedly practicing medicine for less than twenty years. A significant proportion agreed that the government could not single-handedly eliminate tuberculosis without collaborating with private providers. Mostly agreed on the effectiveness of Tuberculosis regimens under the program; however, over-relying on the sputum examination was perceived as a negative component of the program.\u0000Conclusions: Private providers understand their pivotal role in tuberculosis-related programs. However, their full participation has not been realized in the program.","PeriodicalId":13363,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Community Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42728177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Study on Menstrual Hygiene Management among Urban and Rural Adolescent Girls in Marathwada region of Maharashtra, India 印度马哈拉施特拉邦马拉特瓦达地区城乡少女经期卫生管理研究

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Indian Journal of Community Health Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.003

M. Fatima, H. Kausar, P. Giri, Abhijeet Ingale

{"title":"Study on Menstrual Hygiene Management among Urban and Rural Adolescent Girls in Marathwada region of Maharashtra, India","authors":"M. Fatima, H. Kausar, P. Giri, Abhijeet Ingale","doi":"10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.003","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Adolescence is a significant period in the life of a woman. Menstruation is a naturally occurring physiological phenomenon in adolescent girls and premenopausal women. Menstrual hygiene and management is an insufficiently acknowledged issue and has not received adequate attention. The lack of menstrual hygiene among rural population is alarming, and there is a need for policy-making and awareness programs to be initiated.\u0000Aim: Hence the present study was aimed to compare the status of menstrual hygiene among rural and urban adolescent girls. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out among 250 adolescent girls (rural & urban), aged between 13 to 19 years residing the in field practice area of IIMSR Medical College, Badnapur, Jalna. Data was analyzed by using MS\u0000Excel 2010.\u0000Results: Out of 250 participants, 48.8% girls from rural area and 51.2% from urban area. The mean age of the menarche was\u000012.3 ± 1.4 and 12.34 ± 1.43 in rural and urban girls, respectively. Knowledge of menstruation prior to menarche was found to be less in rural girls compared with urban girls. Regarding menstrual hygiene practices during menstruation, out of the total girls residing in rural area 49.18% girl and out of the total girls residing in urban area 62.5% girls were using sanitary pads. Restriction during menstruation was observed more in rural girls than in urban areas.\u0000Conclusion: More awareness regarding menarche and menstruation was among urban girls than. Hygienic practices observed by girls were also more satisfactory in the urban area as compared with rural ones.","PeriodicalId":13363,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Community Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46813124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessment of Educational Environment of Newly Established Medical College by UG Medical Students: A Mixed Method Study UG医学生对新建医学院教育环境评价的混合方法研究

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Indian Journal of Community Health Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.019

Ankit Srivastava, S. Pathak, Urvashi Singh, A. Bihari, Manish Upadhyay

{"title":"Assessment of Educational Environment of Newly Established Medical College by UG Medical Students: A Mixed Method Study","authors":"Ankit Srivastava, S. Pathak, Urvashi Singh, A. Bihari, Manish Upadhyay","doi":"10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.019","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Educational environment always play a crucial role in the development of students as well as faculty of any institution. In India, there is a continuous increase in the number of medical colleges and the number of MBBS seats, but the quality of education with quantity is questionable. To answer this question, the present study was planned to know the educational environment in a new Medical Institution that ejected its alumni in 2018.\u0000Aim: To analyze the educational environment of a newly established Medical College in eastern Uttar Pradesh.\u0000Materials and Methods: The present study was a descriptive cross-sectional which took six months to complete. This study used the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire, open-ended questions and focus group discussions (FGDs). The study was conducted on MBBS students in Government Medical College, Azamgarh, UP.\u0000Results: The batch-wise Global DREEM scores were 169.08 (alumni), 156.23 (interns), 168.76 (2015), 164.16 (2016), 176.23 (2017), 176.94 (2018). This demonstrates that the educational environment is satisfactory in all domains and comes under the 3rd category of the educational environment index. The FGDs showed a positive response in all batches but with high variability in scores, which indicates lack of standardization in Medical Education. The open-ended questions’ responses revealed many merits and demerits about five domains.\u0000Conclusion: The variability of DREEM score, FGDs and open ended questions denotes the lack of standardization in the Medical Education system and the scores of the Education Environment Index (all domains) must move from category III (satisfactory) to category IV (excellence).","PeriodicalId":13363,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Community Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45043896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice related to Tuberculosis among Rural and Urban Community of North India 印度北部农村和城市社区结核病相关知识、态度和行为的评估

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Indian Journal of Community Health Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.016

V. Mittal, Vikram Singh, H. Kumar

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Physical Activity Levels And Junk Food Intake Among School Going Adolescents In A North Indian City 印度北部城市上学青少年的体育活动水平和垃圾食品摄入量

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Indian Journal of Community Health Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.009

Sameena Ahmad, M. A. Ansari, A. Abedi, S. Khalil, U. Eram, Najmul A Khan

{"title":"Physical Activity Levels And Junk Food Intake Among School Going Adolescents In A North Indian City","authors":"Sameena Ahmad, M. A. Ansari, A. Abedi, S. Khalil, U. Eram, Najmul A Khan","doi":"10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47203/ijch.2023.v35i02.009","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Physical activity and diet go hand in hand for the maintenance of good health. This becomes even more important in school-going adolescent students as they are readily exposed to a wide variety of junk food items inside or around their school premises and lead increasingly sedentary lifestyles as they progress through their academics. Aim and Objective: Toassess the junk food intake and physical activity level among school-going adolescents.\u0000Material and Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 800 school-based adolescents aged 12 to 14 years at AMU High Schools, Aligarh. Students were asked about their physical activity and dietary habits by disseminating a self-reported questionnaire. The data were analyzed in SPSS version 20.0.\u0000Results: The majority of the adolescents had a moderate level of physical activity (53%), while 23% of the students had high and 24% had low physical activity levels. On the analysis of the students’ dietary habits, it was found that a staggering 70.75% of students had more than the recommended intake of junk food items. The association between physical activity and junk food intake was found to be significant.\u0000Conclusion: More emphasis should be given to limiting junk food intake, increasing healthy food intake, and motivating the students to be more physically active. This can be done by encouraging the family as well as teachers at the school level and creating more spaces for children to be physically active at the community level.","PeriodicalId":13363,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Community Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44205545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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