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{"title":"Impact of Music on Mental Health","authors":"R. Pokharel","doi":"10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42959","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION: Music affects our brain at different levels. Our mood changes with different types of music. However, at a very deep level, its effect is similar to that of deep meditation. The main objective of this study was to explore the impact of music on mental health. This paper explores, how daily listening and practising of music affects our body and mind. \u0000MATERIALS AND METHODS: Qualitative method based on personal experience and document review method was used in this research. Relevant and related literatures were searched through different search engines to draw the conclusion. \u0000RESULTS: Different systematic experimentations have shown that music practice cultivates the life of a human being. Music as yoga is a combination of breathing exercises and physical activities. \u0000CONCLUSIONS: Music has valuable, powerful and important role in happiness, managing mental stress, and for providing relief to the mind.","PeriodicalId":218847,"journal":{"name":"MedS Alliance Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127633225","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}

{"title":"Online Teaching: Better or Worse?","authors":"K. Yadav","doi":"10.3126/mjmms.v1i2.46523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/mjmms.v1i2.46523","url":null,"abstract":"Not Available","PeriodicalId":218847,"journal":{"name":"MedS Alliance Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123696935","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}

{"title":"Perception and Practice Regarding Prevention of COVID-19 among Community People During and After Lockdown","authors":"Poonam Shah, Sanjana Shah, Laxmi Shah, S. Giri, S. Kushwaha, Lokeshwar Chaurasia","doi":"10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42942","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION: Due to erratic growth of COVID-19 infection across the globe, the mortality and morbidity due to COVID-19 is rapidly changing across the world. An assessment of the perception and practices of community members is important to reduce the risk for COVID-19 infection. Therefore, this study aims to assess the perception and practice regarding prevention of COVID-19 infection among community people before and after lockdown. \u0000MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among community sample from November 2020 to January 2021 at Janakpur sub-metropolitan city of Dhanusha district, Province-2, Nepal. Two stage random sampling technique was used to select the study sample (n=422). A structured questionnaire was administered. McNemar Chi-square test was used to assess the association of perception and practice regarding prevention of COVID-19 infection during and after lockdown. P-values less than 0.05 were considered as significant. \u0000RESULTS: The perception among community people regarding prevention of COVID-19 infection during and after lockdown was insignificant for all the component (p>0.05) except perception regarding preventive measures against COVID-19; p=0.002 whereas the practices for prevention of COVID-19 infection among community people for all the components during and after lockdown was found to be significant (p<0.0001). \u0000CONCLUSIONS: The study showed decreased practices among community people after lockdown for the prevention of COVID-19 infection compared to practices during lockdown. However, perception remains unchanged during and after lockdown for the prevention of COVID-19 infection. Therefore, the government and non-government agencies should implement awareness program through mass media and social campaigns to improve the practices on prevention of COVID-19 infection even after lockdown, among community people.","PeriodicalId":218847,"journal":{"name":"MedS Alliance Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116740800","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}

{"title":"Effectiveness of Educational Intervention on Knowledge Regarding Child Abuse among School Students in a Sub-Metropolitan City","authors":"Reena Ishwar, Dilip Kumar Ishwar, Punita Yadav","doi":"10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42949","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION: Child abuse or maltreatment constitutes all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development. The objective was focused to measure the effectiveness of educational intervention on knowledge regarding child abuse among school students at Janakpurdham, submetropolitan city. \u0000MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was conducted in Janaki higher secondary english school, at Janakpurdham, Dhanusha. One group pre-test and post-test design was used. A self- administered structured questionnaire was developed to assess the knowledge regarding child abuse among participants. Differential and inferential statistics were used to analyse data by SPSS package. \u0000RESULTS: Out of total 44 participants, 12 (27.3%) participants had poor level of knowledge in pre-test whereas none had poor knowledge in post-test. 25 (56.8%) participants had average level of knowledge in pre-test but only 15 (34.1%) had average level in post- test. 7 (15.9%) participants had good level of knowledge in pre-test, however 29 (65.9%) had good level of knowledge in post-test. The scores of pre-test 18.80 (3.87) and post-test 24.23 (2.78) were found to be statistically significant. There was no any association between level of knowledge in pre-test and post-test with their selected socio-demographic variables except sex, education status of mother and occupation of father in post-test. \u0000CONCLUSIONS: Majority of participants had average level of knowledge in pre-test that was increased to good knowledge in post-test. The scores of pre-test and post-test were found to be statistically significant which determined the effectiveness of educational intervention programme.","PeriodicalId":218847,"journal":{"name":"MedS Alliance Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences","volume":"13 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130433485","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}

{"title":"Phototherapy Induced Hypocalcemia in Icteric Newborns Attending Birat Medical College Teaching Hospital, Morang, Nepal","authors":"C. Jha, R. Subedi","doi":"10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42940","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION: Neonatal jaundice is the single most common abnormal physical finding and the cause of morbidity in first week of life. It is commonly managed by phototherapy with its inherent complications. A lesser known side effect, but a potential complication of phototherapy is hypocalcemia. This study was done to determine the prevalence of phototherapy induced hypocalcemia in icteric newborns and to compare it between preterm and term babies. \u0000MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a hospital based cross sectional study carried out in the Department of Paediatrics, Birat Medical College Teaching Hospital from 1st September 2020 to 1st March 2021. This study was performed on 201 icteric newborns (121 term and 80 preterm) who were managed with phototherapy. Serum calcium level was estimated both before initiating phototherapy and after 24 hours of continued phototherapy. All the data were recorded in a structured proforma. Data was analysed using SPSS version 16 and p -value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. \u0000RESULTS: Male newborns (n=133; 66.2%) outnumbered the female newborns (n=68; 33.8%). Majority of neonates were in the age group of 1-5 days (n=156; 77.6%), with mean age of 4.50± 3.39 days. 7.9% (16 out of 201) of the neonates exhibited phototherapy induced hypocalcemia. The prevalence of hypocalcemia in preterm was 10% and term neonates was 6.6%. \u0000CONCLUSIONS: Hypocalcemia is a significant problem in icteric newborns treated with phototherapy. Hence there is a need for close monitoring of serum calcium levels in the icteric neonates. Also the risk is greater in preterm neonates as compared to the term neonates.","PeriodicalId":218847,"journal":{"name":"MedS Alliance Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126404549","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}

{"title":"Awareness and Perception Regarding Health Insurance among Community people in a Municipality: A Cross Sectional Study","authors":"Bharat Ram Dhungana, S. Giri, S. Kushwaha, Dammar Kumari Khanal, B. Yadav","doi":"10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42952","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION: Health insurance program is a social protection program of the government of Nepal, which aims to enable its citizens to have access to quality health care services without placing financial burden on them. There was insufficient knowledge and awareness of the health insurance activities. Insured persons have complained of poor attitude and behaviour of service providers operating in the health insurance scheme. The aim of this study was to investigate the awareness and perception regarding health insurance among community people in a municipality. \u0000MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional survey assessing awareness and perception of community people on health insurance was conducted using a structured questionnaire in Bardibas municipality of Mahottari district of Nepal during the month of August 2019 to October 2019. A total of 422 sample were selected by use of simple random sampling technique and face-to-face interview was conducted using the structured questionnaire. Multivariable logistic regression model was applied to test the effects of independent variables after adjusted potential confounders. A p-value ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant. \u0000RESULTS: Participants who were from age group of less than 30 years [aOR 2.82; 95% CI (1.46-5.47)] of male gender [aOR 2.03; 95% CI (1.13-3.66)], from upper caste [aOR 6.22; 95% CI (2.97-13.0)], and had higher secondary education level and above [aOR 4.66; 95% CI (2.81-7.74)] were likely to have adequate level of awareness than counterparts. Likewise, participants who were married [aOR 3.46; 95% CI (1.57- 7.63)], had higher secondary education level and above [aOR 4.74; 95% CI (2.85- 7.87)], and involved in services or business [aOR 8.67; 95% CI (3.54-21.23)], were more likely to have satisfactory perception on health insurance. \u0000CONCLUSIONS: Education level and occupation has influence on the level of awareness and perception of health insurance. Therefore, awareness programme on health insurance need to be implemented through mass media campaign.","PeriodicalId":218847,"journal":{"name":"MedS Alliance Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126886386","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}

{"title":"Effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Prevention of Shaken Baby Syndrome among Antenatal Women at Selected Hospitals of Banglore, India","authors":"Punita Yadav, P. Menaga, Sunil Kumar Bhinawar","doi":"10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42954","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION: The objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of video assisted teaching on knowledge regarding prevention of shaken baby syndrome among antenatal women and also the association between knowledge with their selected socio-demographical variables. \u0000MATERIALS AND METHODS: A one group pre-test and post-test design was adopted. Structured knowledge questionnaire was prepared. The data were collected from 60 women who attend the OPD for antenatal regular checkup using non probability purposive sampling techniques. The reliability of tools was established (0.724).Pilot study was conducted. The data was analyzed and interpreted using descriptive and inferential statistics. \u0000RESULTS: The findings revealed that the overall mean pre-test Knowledge score was 11.06 and the overall post-test knowledge score was 19.98 respectively. The mean post-test knowledge score of antenatal women who were exposed to video assisted teaching were significantly higher, than the mean pretest knowledge scores. There was suggestive significance between the knowledge scores and demographic variables. The findings suggest that the video assisted teaching program is an effective teaching strategy to enhance the knowledge of antenatal women, regarding prevention of shaken baby syndrome. \u0000CONCLUSIONS: The post-test knowledge score was higher than pretest knowledge score regarding prevention of Shaken Baby Syndrome among antenatal women.The study concluded that, the video assisted teaching Program was an effective teaching strategy, to enhance knowledge of antenatal women regarding prevention of shaken baby syndrome.","PeriodicalId":218847,"journal":{"name":"MedS Alliance Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114098505","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}

{"title":"Assessment of Dietary Patterns of Pregnant Women in Southern Nepal","authors":"Satya Prakash, D. Pandeya, K. Yadav, B. K. Yadav","doi":"10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/mjmms.v1i1.42948","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION: Quality and balanced diet becomes very crucial to the health of woman during and after pregnancy. Therefore, the study was focused on the nutritional behaviour and dietary pattern of women during pregnancy. \u0000MATERIALS AND METHODS: Cluster random sampling was adopted. Total 336 pregnant women were selected, out of which 224 were pregnant women (cases) and 112 were non-pregnant healthy women (controls). Maternal demographics information was collected by a structured questionnaire. Data was entered into MS Excel and analyzed using SPSS version 20. Chi-square test was used. The p-value (p< 0.05) was considered statistically significant. \u0000RESULTS: Among pregnant women, 27.23%, 32.58%, 30.95% and 9.82% women consumed meat daily, twice per week, once per week and none respectively while among non-pregnant women the consumption of meat was 25.89%, 50.89%, 17.85% and 5.35% respectively. The association of consuming meat twice per week and fish among pregnant and non-pregnant women was noted statistically significant (p=0.005). More number of study participants drank tea and milk daily. The co-relation between pregnant and non-pregnant women regarding drinking (tea and milk) daily was statistically insignificant (p=0.881 and p=0.122) respectively. However, the relation between pregnant and non-pregnant women for intake of juice was statistically significant (p=0.007). \u0000CONCLUSIONS: Thus, the findings of this research suggest the need for a balanced nutritional diet among Nepalese pregnant women for proper foetal growth, good health of pregnant women and to avoid complications during pregnancy. Nutrition education programs in the community should be launched.","PeriodicalId":218847,"journal":{"name":"MedS Alliance Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117139378","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}

{"title":"Basic Occupational Safety and Health for Respiratory Diseases","authors":"R. Piryani, S. Piryani","doi":"10.3126/mjmms.v1i2.46527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/mjmms.v1i2.46527","url":null,"abstract":"Not Available","PeriodicalId":218847,"journal":{"name":"MedS Alliance Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123999527","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}

{"title":"A Survey on General Pharmacology and Adverse Drug Effects among Undergraduate Medical Students: A Descriptive Study","authors":"Lokeshwar Chaurasia, Gita Paudel, Amrit Khanal","doi":"10.3126/mjmms.v1i2.46508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/mjmms.v1i2.46508","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION: Pharmacology is one of the cornerstones of the drug discovery process. It has been defined as “an experimental science which has for its purpose, the study of changes brought about in living organisms by chemically acting substances (with the exception of foods), whether used for therapeutic purposes or not.” The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge on general pharmacology and adverse drug effects.\u0000MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted at Janaki Medical College from January 2021 to February 2021 among MBBS First and second year undergraduate students. A structured quantitative survey, was used as an instrument for data collection. A total of 120 participants completed the questionnaire. Data analysis was carried out using SPSS version 21.0 software.\u0000RESULTS: In the current study, out of 120 undergraduate MBBS students, 67.5% were males and 32.5% were females. The main purpose of using drug was for treatment as reported by 33.3% of the respondents, major source of drug was plants (69.2%), while generic name was the most commonly remembered drug nomenclature. Oral route was the most common route (100%) as well as the most preferred (89.2%) route of drug administration. The first line of treatment for any illness was home remedies (54.2%) while 69.2% of the respondents reported to consume drugs for any illness after prescription by a registered medical practitioner. Similarly, 80.8% of the respondents took drugs in adequate dose while 83.3% reported to take drugs for adequate period of time for any illness. Type A was the most commonly (79.2%) reported adverse effects.\u0000CONCLUSIONS: The study findings demonstrated the need to reinforce information on general pharmacology and adverse effects related to different dosage forms of medications to the future practitioners.","PeriodicalId":218847,"journal":{"name":"MedS Alliance Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116165883","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}