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{"title":"Predictive Factors Affecting Newborn Survival Admitted in Special Newborn Care Units of Tertiary Care Hospitals","authors":"S. Harsh, Nagar Shashwat, Thomas Ebbie, Patel Jay","doi":"10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.40","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90863,"journal":{"name":"International journal of medicine and public health","volume":"10 1","pages":"184-188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44677432","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":"Perceived Peer Norms and Help Seeking for Depression in Indian College Youth","authors":"Fathima Ma, Seema Mehrotra, Paulomi M. Sudhir","doi":"10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.33","url":null,"abstract":"Copyright © 2020 Phcog.Net. This is an openaccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Cite this article : Fathima MA, Mehrotra S, Sudhir P. Perceived Peer Norms and Help Seeking for Depression in Indian College Youth. Int J Med Public Health. 2020;10(4):152-4. ABSTRACT Background: Low rates of professional help seeking are observed in college youth despite high prevalence of common mental health problems. Perceptions regarding social norms related to help seeking can be one of the factors that influence help seeking inclination. Aim: The present study examined perceived peer norms related to help seeking for depressive symptoms and their relationship to one’s own help seeking inclination in urban Indian college youth. Methods: A crosssectional survey design was used. College youth (N=300) in a metropolitan Indian city constituted the study sample. A modified version of the General Help Seeking Questionnaire was used. This incorporated two depression vignettes; one described depressive symptoms in the context of a life event and another one depicted similar depressive symptoms without any life event. The likelihood of oneself as well as one’s peers seeking help from different sources was inquired into, for both the vignettes. Results: Friends were rated as the most likely source of seeking help for depressive symptoms. Seeking help from a professional by self and by one’s peers was rated as less likely when depression was preceded by a life event than when it was not. College youth rated their own likelihood of seeking professional help to be higher when they perceived their peers’ likelihood of seeking professional help to be higher. Conclusion: Perceived peer norms about help seeking for depression can play an important role in influencing inclination to seek help from professional sources in college youth. Implications for designing interventions to improve help seeking in youth are highlighted.","PeriodicalId":90863,"journal":{"name":"International journal of medicine and public health","volume":"10 1","pages":"152-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47899869","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":"Attitudes and Practices of Indians during the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Aniruddh Agrawal, Anisha Agrawal, Tanisha Baid","doi":"10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.38","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The SARS-CoV-2 led to a nationwide lockdown in India from 24th March, 2020. It became important to identify people's attitudes and practices to allow rapid change in health policies to alleviate stress factors. Objectives: To evaluate the attitudes, practices and sources of information and their perceived reliability from people residing in India.","PeriodicalId":90863,"journal":{"name":"International journal of medicine and public health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46226601","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":"Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Group C Employees in a Tertiary Health Care Centre in Puducherry: A Cross-sectional Study","authors":"Santosh Kumar, S. Kar","doi":"10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.32","url":null,"abstract":"Copyright © 2020 Phcog.Net. This is an openaccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Cite this article : Kumar S, Kar SS. Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Group C Employees in a Tertiary Health Care Centre in Puducherry: A Cross-sectional Study. Int J Med Public Health. 2020;10(4):147-51. ABSTRACT Background: Settings based approach for health promotion at workplaces is surveillance of employees for CVD risk factors, which will help to estimate the prevalence of CVD risk factors and monitor CVD risks among the employees. It was planned to calculate the prevalence of CVD risk factors among group C employees of tertiary care hospital in south India. Materials and Methods: A hospital based cross-sectional survey was conducted among 324 group C employees aged ≥18 years as per the WHO “STEP wise approach to surveillance of non-communicable diseases” (STEPS) methodology. Standardized international protocols were used to measure behavioural risk characteristics (smoking, alcohol consumption, fruit and vegetable consumption, physical activity) and physical characteristics (weight, waist circumference, height and blood pressure). Multivariate analysis was done to know the factors, which carry independent risk of hypertension. Risk factor profiling of the employees was done using WHO/ISH risk prediction chart to estimate the 10 year risk of a fatal or nonfatal major cardiovascular events (myocardial infarction or stroke), according to age, gender, blood pressure, smoking status and presence or absence of self-reported status of diabetes mellitus. Data entry was done using Epi-data version 4.4.2.1. Data cleaning and analysis was done using Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. Results: Mean age in years was 34.3 (±8.26) and men contributed 79.3% of study participants. Prevalence of major cardiovascular risk factors was as follows: Current smokers 25.3% men, regular alcohol intake 29.01% between men, overweight (≥23 kg/m2) 26.4%, central obesity 16%, hypertension 13.7% and a past history of diabetes mellitus 15.6%. Almost 3/4th of the participants were following unhealthy diet and living sedentary life style. The relationship between sociodemographic factors and selected risk factors of CVD (tobacco use, alcohol use, unhealthy diet and physical activity) was found significant associated with gender, age, educational status and years of work experience. Around four percent participants had a >10% risk of developing CVD in next 10 years. Conclusion: The prevalence of CVD risk factors is high in the sample population. Employee health and wellness program must be regulated and implemented in the institute, to overcome the burden of cardiovascular diseases.","PeriodicalId":90863,"journal":{"name":"International journal of medicine and public health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43495278","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":"Determinants of Protective Behaviour Adoption and the Implications for Health Authorities During a Pandemic","authors":"M. Nixon, M. Koshkouei","doi":"10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.41","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Health authorities across the world have implemented non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing measures and hand hygiene campaigns in response to COVID-19. However, the adoption of health-protective behaviour by individuals in alignment with these interventions, although effective, is variable.","PeriodicalId":90863,"journal":{"name":"International journal of medicine and public health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44014767","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":"Mixed Infection due to Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium vivax: A First Case Report from Rural North India","authors":"Pratibha Mane, Jyoti Sangwan","doi":"10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.48","url":null,"abstract":"Copyright © 2020 Phcog.Net. This is an openaccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Cite this article : Mane P, Sangwan J. Mixed Infection due to Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium vivax: A First Case Report from Rural North India. Int J Med Public Health. 2020;10(4):231-2. ABSTRACT Mixed malaria infections often go unrecognized and are therefore under reported. We hereby report the first described case of mixed infection due to P. malariae and P. vivax from most backward region of country emphasizing possibility of change in epidemiological pattern of malaria in the region. Also present case report highlight the increasing importance of Polymerase Chain Reaction in diagnosing malaria especially mixed malaria.","PeriodicalId":90863,"journal":{"name":"International journal of medicine and public health","volume":"10 1","pages":"231-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46558875","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":"Research on Congenital Heart Defects: A Bibliometric Assessment of India’s Publications during 2000-19","authors":"B. Gupta, K. Ahmed","doi":"10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.46","url":null,"abstract":"Copyright © 2020 Phcog.Net. This is an openaccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Cite this article : Gupta BM, Ahmed KKM. Research on Congenital Heart Defects: A Bibliometric Assessment of India’s Publications during 2000-19. Int J Med Public Health. 2020;10(4):217-25. ABSTRACT The paper presents a quantitative and qualitative dimensions of congenital heart defect (CHD) research output in India, based on publications data (1335) indexed in Scopus database during 2000-19. CHD research registered 10.0% growth, averaged 7.07 citations per paper, contributed 3.04% share to the global output and constitute 13.48% share of India’s research as international collaborative. CHD research is skewed as top 10 countries account for 83.23% of global output. India ranks as the 10th most productive country in the world. The distribution of CHD research by type of research reveal that Tetralogy of Fallout accounted for the highest share (34.31% share), followed by Aortic Stenosis (30.41%), Atrial Septal Defects (28.16%), Ventricular Septal Defects (26.22%), etc. AIIMS New Delhi, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Coimbatore and PGIMER Chandigarh lead the country as the most productive organizations (with 222, 73 and 64 papers). Besides, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Coimbatore (33.88 and 4.79), SCTIMST Trivandrum (30.73 and 4.35) and Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi (17.20 and 2.43) lead the country as the most impactful organizations in terms of citation per paper and relative citation index. B. Airan, A. Saxena and S. Talwar have been the most productive authors (with 63, 63 and 59 papers) and P. Khairy (16.31 and 2.31), B. Vaidyanathan (14.3 and 2.03) and R.K. Kumar (10.53 and 1.49) have been the most impactful authors. Indian Heart Journal, Annals of Pediatric Cardiology (84 papers) and Annals of Cardiac Anaesian (53 papers) topped the list of most productive journals (with 110, 84 and 53 papers). International Journal of Cardiology (18.62), Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions (16.64) and Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia (11.65) leads in ranking in terms of citation per paper.","PeriodicalId":90863,"journal":{"name":"International journal of medicine and public health","volume":"10 1","pages":"217-225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41519516","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":"Does Child Friendliness of Schools Influence Prevalence of Depressive Disorders among School Going Adolescents? – A Study in Two Southern Districts of Karnataka","authors":"J. Thomas, P. Kulkarni, B. Prakash, N. Mr","doi":"10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.37","url":null,"abstract":"Copyright © 2020 Phcog.Net. This is an openaccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Cite this article : Thomas JJ, Kulkarni P, Prakash B, Murthy NMR. Does Child Friendliness of Schools Influence Prevalence of Depressive Disorders among School Going Adolescents? – A Study in Two Southern Districts of Karnataka. Int J Med Public Health. 2020;10(4):169-73. ABSTRACT","PeriodicalId":90863,"journal":{"name":"International journal of medicine and public health","volume":"10 1","pages":"169-173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41885345","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":"Risk of Developing T2DM among Students of Graduation and Undergraduation Courses in Andhra Pradesh: An Evaluation using Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS)","authors":"Alan Rose Janga, Jyothi Naga Mohana Sathineni, Siva Bharath Gavini, Jai Divya Tella, R. Nadendla","doi":"10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5530/IJMEDPH.2020.4.42","url":null,"abstract":"Copyright © 2020 Phcog.Net. This is an openaccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Cite this article : Janga AR, Sathineni JNM, Gavini SB, Tella JD, Nadendla R. Risk of Developing T2DM among Students of Graduation and Undergraduation Courses in Andhra Pradesh: An Evaluation using Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS). Int J Med Public Health. 2020;10(4):198-201. ABSTRACT Background: Diabetes Mellitus is a major public and clinical health concern. It is a basic knowledge that T2DM causes a serious decline in normal Quality of Life, where late identification in later ages is the major challenge. The main motive of this study was to evaluate a pre-existing multivariate risk factors for the development of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in youth. Objectives: To predict and assess the risk and risk factors for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Methods: The study was designed to be a cross-sectional epidemiological study. It was conducted in the students of graduation and under graduation courses in Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh over 6 months from 1st September 2019 to 1st February 2020 which includes 2524 students with a response rate of 92.5%. Students are enrolled based on Inclusion and exclusion criteria. Specially designed data collection form used to obtain the data required for the study. Results: In our study we have collected data from 2524 students where, 1088 students (34.50%) were males and 1435 (65.49%) were females. Diabetes risk was assessed using validated tool, Indian Diabetes Risk Score. Conclusion: We came to a conclusion that most of the students have moderate to low risk of diabetes mellitus, with significantly contributing risk factors like family history, low PA.","PeriodicalId":90863,"journal":{"name":"International journal of medicine and public health","volume":"10 1","pages":"198-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48221093","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":"Clinical Manifestation and Complications of Scrub Typhus Cases: A Hospital-based Observational Study from Rural Part of West Bengal","authors":"K. Sarkar, A. Acharyya, Susmita Ghosh, Manas Ghosh, Ambarish Bhattacharya, Kaushik Ghosh","doi":"10.5530/ijmedph.2020.4.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5530/ijmedph.2020.4.39","url":null,"abstract":"1Department of Medicine, Murshidabad Medical College, Berhampore, Murshidabad, West Bengal, INDIA. 2Central Sector Scheme of Grant-in-Aid for Promotion of Ayush Intervention in PHI-Ministry of AYUSH (Govt of India), New Delhi, INDIA. 3Department of Anaesthesiology, Murshidabad Medical College, Berhampore, Murshidabad, West Bengal, INDIA. 4Department of Medicine and Critical Care Nightingle and Monmohini Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, INDIA.","PeriodicalId":90863,"journal":{"name":"International journal of medicine and public health","volume":"10 1","pages":"180-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42486082","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}