Background: Smartphone with its various functionalities has become an essential part of our daily activities and its use has been increasing. This has raised concern about its overuse and addiction especially in students. It is known that poor sleep is very common among medical students; there are many studies on sleep quality and its determinants in medical students but very few relating sleep quality and smartphone addiction. The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between smartphone use severity and sleep quality among medical students of KIMS, Hubballi. Methods: A cross‑sectional study on sample of 240 undergraduate medical students KIMS, Hubballi was conducted. Students were assessed using a self-administered questionnaire, Smart phone addiction scale (SAS) and Pittsburgh sleep quality inventory (PSQI). SAS score and PSQI scores were co-related. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to identify the variables independently associated with level of sleep quality. Results: Out of 240 subjects 117 (48.75%) were poor sleepers & 123 (51.25%) were good sleepers according to PSQI global sleep score. According to SAS score 123 (51.2%) were low users and 117 (48.75%) were high users of Smart phone. The mean (SD) PSQI global score was 4.8 (2.49) and mean (SD) SAS score was 102.93 (22.13). There was positive correlation between SAS score & PSQI score (r=0.343, p<0.001). Gender (β=0.141, p=0.021) & SAS score (β=0.292, p<0.001) were the significant predictors of global PSQI score. Conclusions: This study concludes that in medical students smartphone addiction affects sleep quality significantly and males are particularly more at risk of having poor sleep quality due to excessive smartphone use.

Background: According to WHO estimates India has 10 million blind population .Corneal problems cause a significant proportion of blindness India. Although effective strategies to prevent corneal blindness are likely to be more cost-effective, visual rehabilitation by corneal transplantation remains the major treatment for restoring sight in those who already have corneal blindness. The requirement of donor corneas per year is at least 20 times the current procurement. Objectives: To study the knowledge and attitude of college students towards eye donation. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using a pre-structured, pre-tested questionnaire to solicit information from students of 8 colleges in Hubli and Dharwad. Results: Totally 403 students from 8 colleges were part of the survey. 96% students aware about eye donation and knew that eyes can be donated after death. Majority (61%) know that eyes should be donated within 6 hours. 69% believe that there is no age limit for eye donation. 68% are of opinion that eye donation will not cause disfigurement of face, among them females were more aware than males. 33.4% know that only cornea is used in eye transplantation.78.1% are willing to donate eyes. Conclusion: These data shows that although majority were willing to donate eyes there is still more potential for obtaining cornea. By the survey we got to know that weak eye sight, religious belief, afraid of invasive process and social stigma are the important reasons for not donating eyes. We also need to educate students to overcome social stigma regarding eye donation

A study was conducted on stress among government city bus drivers in Hubli from 4 th June to 3 rd July 2013 2.1 Sample size: Study sample was collected of 100 bus drivers. 2.2 Inclusion criteria: The bus drivers who were plying within the city limits were taken in the study. 2.3 Exclusion criteria: The bus drivers plying outside city limits were excluded. 2.4 Study method: Structured, preformed and pretested questionnaire was prepared. Permission was taken from CPM, NWKRTC, Gokul road, Hubli. Data was collected by using the questionnaire regarding the socio-demographic profile which contained name, age, education status, socioeconomic status, marital status etc. General information about the bus drivers regarding number of years of service, no. of hours of sleep and work, bad habits etc. were collected. Frequency of bus passenger accident by each bus drivers, concern for driving, confirming safe conditions for drive observed by the drivers during their work were asked. Then depression among bus drivers was assessed by self rating depression scale 4. Various job stressors like aptitude for job, bad environment in bus and among colleagues, complaints from passenger were taken. Lastly details regarding recognition from others about their job were collected. The data was then tabulated in MS excel, correlation tests were applied to the suitable tabulated data and the same was analysed in SPSS 17.0.

Background: The world's elderly population is increasing rapidly. According to the 2011 census elderly population contributes to 7.4% of the total population. Both physical and mental disorders are prevalent among the elderly. Symptoms of depression in older people are often overlooked and untreated. Depression leads to loss of appetite, diminution of food intake, and weight loss consequently leading to malnutrition. Methodology: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among the geriatric population of urban field practice area using a predesigned, semi-structured questionnaire. Geriatric Depression was assessed using Geriatric Depression Scale and Nutritional Status using the Mini Nutritional Assessment Scale. House to house survey of the Geriatric population was conducted after obtaining written consent. Results: Out of 260 participants, 51.5% of the population were males, 49.2% of the population belonged to 60-69 years age group and 16.9% of them were more than 80 years of age. The prevalence of geriatric depression was 68.5 %,). The majority (64%) of the elderly population were at risk of malnutrition. Depression scores were negatively correlated with nutritional scores. Conclusion: The prevalence of depression and malnutrition was considerably high among the elderly population.  Malnutrition among the elderly is a significant determinant of malnutrition.