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. MATERIALS 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. RESULTS: 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). CONCLUSIONS: 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.

Background and Objectives: Burn injuries can be devastating to both the patients affected and the patients’ families who support the injured person. In an effort to shield patients’ family members from and anxiety-provoking experience and protect the patients from potential infections, burn units have historically restricted visitation during dressing change but evidence indicates that these restrictions contribute to patients’ and family’s dissatisfaction and to their knowledge deficit when it comes time to care for burn patients at home. Thus this study assess the nurse’s perception of family presence during dressing change in the adult burn intensive care unit of selected tertiary care hospital in India. Material and Methods: A Non- Experimental Descriptive Survey Design with evaluative research approach was used to evaluate the nurse’s perception of Family Presence during dressing change in the Adult Burn Intensive Care Unit of KLES Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Belagavi, India. A total of 30 nurses working in Adult Burn Intensive Care Unit (BICU) were selected by using the non-probability convenience method of sampling technique. A 5 points Likert scale was used for data collection. Results: The study findings showed that, Majority 22 (73.3%) of the nurses had performed dressing more than 11 times but 26 (86.7%) of the nurses had never experienced family member in dressing room during dressing and 28 (93.37%) of the nurses had never initiate family member during dressing change as well as majority 21 (70%) of the nurses had never experience of family request to be on dressing room during dressing change. Majority 12 (40%) of the nurses were disagree on family presence during dressing change, 10 (33.3%) of the nurses were had neutral perception where as minority nurses 8 (26.7) had agree regarding family presence during dressing change. Conclusion: The study revealed that majority of the nurses does not agree to have family member to be in room during dressing change even though presence of family members during dressing change will have a positive effect on patient, family, nurse, satisfaction with hospital care.

INTRODUCTION: Health insurance is a type of insurance coverage that pays for medical, surgical and sometimes dental expenses incurred by the insured. It reimburses the insured for expenses incurred from illness or injury or pays the case provider directly. The objective of this study is to determine awareness and perception about health insurance among people of Janakpurdham. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross sectional study, using simple random sampling among 400 participants was done at Janakpurdham. A semi structured questionnaire was used. Data was tabulated, categorized and was analyzed using statistical methods JASP version. Chi-square test was used to find out the association between the dependent and independent variables. RESULTS: In this research awareness about health insurance among respondents slightly more than one third 137(34.25%) were heard about health insurance and 293(73.25%) heard about health insurance scheme. Maximum number of respondents received information from friends 154(38.5%) followed by public media 127(31.7%) and few from newspaper 96(24.0%), and few from employment were 23 (5.8%). Higher Socio-economic status of the respondents were found to be significantly associated with more awareness on health insurance. CONCLUSIONS: Awareness about health insurance was satisfactory, but it did not lead to increased enrolment. There is a need to reinforce information, education and communication campaign about health insurance among the general population.

INTRODUCTION: Assorted beauty products such as skin care products, hair products, fragrances and nail products that may contain toxic chemicals and that can be harmful to health are especially used by women. The objective of this study was to assess the utilization of cosmetics and its knowledge among intermediate level female students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was conducted at Public Youth Campus, Janakpurdham using descriptive cross-sectional study design. Purposive sampling technique was used. Intermediate level female students were included in the study. The data were analysed using IBM SPSS Version 23. Descriptive and inferential analysis was carried out to find out frequency and association between socio-demographic variables, and knowledge regarding the effects of cosmetics utilization. RESULTS: The study revealed that 53.8% of respondents had started using cosmetics at the age of 12-16 years, 20% of respondents had started using cosmetics at the age of 16-20 years, whereas 26.3% had started using cosmetics before the age of 12. Moreover, 68.8% of respondents believed that long-term usage of cosmetic products was beneficial whereas 31.2% of respondents had experienced the adverse effects of cosmetics utilization. Additionally, 28.7% of respondents had a high level of knowledge regarding cosmetics utilization. CONCLUSIONS: The study found that the knowledge regarding the effect of cosmetics utilization was moderate among the respondents. It was also found that the adverse effects of cosmetic use lead to allergic reactions and skin discoloration upon long term usage of cosmetic products. Health education program to the target population is crucial with focus on cosmetic use and its adverse effects on health.