Improvement of associated sociodemographic factors would reduce the prevalence and resultant complications of chronic suppurative otitis media in primary school children in developing countries.

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Background: A rising tide of information technology (IT) is sweeping through medical education providing learners with easier and more effective access to a wider variety and greater quantity of information. Objectives: This descriptive cross sectional survey was done to explore status of computer and internet use by undergraduate medical students of Bangladesh. Methods: 659 final year MBBS students of randomly selected eight medical colleges of Bangladesh were supplied with a pre tested self-administered questionnaire, seeking information regarding the use of computer and internet, in the period of July 2012 to June 2013. Results: Majority (52%) of the respondents were female. Almost 90% of the respondents had computer and internet access. 83% had personal computer and almost two third of the sample used computers for more than 3 years. Majority used computer and internet more for non-academic activities like chatting, E mail, entertainment, collection of general information, reading newspaper and etc. The features used for academic purposes were multimedia/power point (61.2%), internet literature search (42.3%), presentations (25.8%), and word processing (23.2%). According to the research findings the most visited sites for academic purposes were Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Facebook and YouTube. Conclusion: It is essential to improve the computer and IT knowledge in academics meanwhile reducing non-academic uses.

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Premature ejaculation (PE) has been considered as the most common male sexual dysfunction affecting men and their partners. The objective of the study was to find out the proportion of PE, associated psycho-social factors and psychiatric co-morbidities among the patients attended in the Sexual . For this purpose 280 male patients with complaints of sexual dysfunction aged from 18 to 60 years were selected by convenient sampling technique. A semi-structured, self-administered questionnaire containing socio-demographic variables, Bangla version of the premature ejaculation diagnostic tool (PEDT), Bangla version of the depression anxiety stress scales (DASS 21-BV) were applied to assess their PE and associated depression, anxiety and stress respectively. The results showed that, mean (+SD) age of the respondents was 38.8 (+8.44) years and 26.4% of the respondents were found to have PE. Presence of PE was slightly higher (55.4%) among the older age group (aged 41-60 years) than the younger age group (aged 18-40 years). Chi-square test showed significant association with religion, smoking status and psychiatric co-morbidities with presence of PE (p<0.05 for all comparisons). This high prevalence and associated psychosocial factors illustrate the need for promoting awareness and development of standardized methods for diagnosis, assessment and treatment of PE.