Background:Adolescents are a relatively healthy group, but their developmental stage makes them vulnerable to many risk-taking behaviors. One such major issue is road safety practices and their risk on roads.Objective:To determine road safety risk behavior among school-going adolescents of Jaipur city and factors associated with it.Materials and Methods:An observational, cross-sectional study was conducted from July 2015 to February 2016. A total of 900 school-going adolescents were enrolled from eight schools of Jaipur city and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) questionnaire was administered.Results:Most of the participants (67.56%) were in the age group of 13–16 years. A total of 682 (75%) adolescents were driving one or other type of vehicle to commute. Out of the 682 vehicle-using adolescents, 603 (88%) had risky behavior on roads. Driving under the influence was found more among those using four-wheelers (10%) than two-wheelers (5%). Almost half of drivers used mobile phones while driving a car or two-wheeler. There was statistically significant association between risk on roads with respect to rising education and occupation of parents. A majority (88.41%) of the school-going students were found to be at risk on roads while driving. Safety-belt was not used by 28% of the students while half did not use a helmet. More than 70% of the car drivers and two-wheeler drivers drove without license.Conclusion:Majority of the adolescent drivers are at risk on roads. Driving without license and/or helmet and using mobile phone are the main risk factors.

Background: Ganglion is a common cystic swelling around wrist presenting in outdoor department, clinical examination is sufficient for making diagnosis of simple cyst, cosmesis and pain are main presenting complain. Treatment includes aspiration with or without injections but has high recurrence rate, surgical excision has low recurrence rate but being invasive there are numerous complications and should be warrant depending on patient complain. Minimal invasive loop suture technique has low recurrence and minimalcomplication. Aims and Objectives: The aim of the study was to manage the ganglion by double loop suture technique. Materials and Methods: One hundred and four patients with volar and dorsal wrist ganglion fulfilling inclusion and exclusion criteria received treatment by minimal invasive loop suture technique, 6-month follow-up was done for reviewing any recurrence of cyst. Results: From these 104 patients, 76 were females and 28 were males, with a median age of 22 years. Ninety-four (90.4%) patients presented with dorsal wrist ganglion and 10 (9.6%) patients had volar wrist ganglion. The size of simple ganglia varied from 10 mm to 32 mm Cosmesis was the most common presenting complaint in 84 patients (80.7%) followed by pain (19.3%). Recurrence of swelling was observed in four patients (3.8%). Complications were encountered in two cases in the form of superficial infection at the site of entry point of threads. Conclusion: Radical surgical excision is gold standard but warranted by patient complains as there are numerous complications. Double loop suture technique is an ambulatory surgical procedure and has very promising results with low recurrence rate and complications.

Background: Adolescents are a relatively healthy group, but their developmental stage makes them vulnerable to many risk‑taking behaviors. One such major issue is substance abuse. Aims and Objectives: This study aims to determine substance abuse behavior among school‑going adolescents of Jaipur city and factors associated with it. Materials and Methods: An observational, cross‑sectional study was conducted from July 2015 to February 2016. A total of 900 school‑going adolescents were enrolled from eight schools of Jaipur city and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) questionnaire was administered. Results: Most of the participants (67.56%) were in the age group of 13–16 years. Twelve adolescents out of 900 (1.34 %) in the given sample were taking drugs. Out of these, 66.67% took drugs 1 or 2 times in their life so far, while 33% took it 3–9 times. Majority 91.66% of the drug users were from government school (9 times more risk), 9/12 (75%) of the drug users were males. A total of 10% (90/900) of the study population were consuming tobacco. All of these adolescents smoke and 87.78% (79/90) chew tobacco. Conclusion: Although proportion seems less, yet the age at which these young students have been exposed to and indulged in substance abuse is a matter of concern.