Objective of the study is to assess the knowledge towards breast self-examination (BSE) of breasts among young adults in various districts of Sindh province in Pakistan. Descriptive cross sectional study design was used to conduct the study at Larkana. A total of 171 young female students participated in the study including students of matric, intermediate, undergraduate and postgraduate level. Participants were given a self-administered questionnaire designed to assess the knowledge of students towards SBE and Breast cancer. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical tests in SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 23.0). A total 171 young adults participated in the study. Only a 2.33% were married. Most of the participants (47.36%) had intermediate level education, 43.85% were undergraduate, 8.18% had a family member with breast cancer, 38.6% of the respondents didn’t know that breast cancer is the most fatal cancer in women all over the world. A 43.8% considered that family history as a risk factor for the breast cancer, 61.4% considered that pain in the breast is symptom for the breast cancer, 83.63% of participants didn’t know how to perform breast self-examination, 88.3% of the participants were not practicing self-breast examination. It was concluded that most of the young students in various districts of Sindh province in Pakistan do not have reasonable knowledge towards Self-breast examination and do not practice the same in routine life.
Background: Medication errors are of primary concern in hospitals of Pakistan but only few are reported. Prevalence and type of medication errors are essential for estimating the appropriateness of therapy. Pharmacist is key in improving therapy effectiveness and decreasing medication errors.
Objective: To assess the prevalence, type of medication errors and pharmacist interventions.
Methodology: An interventional study on prescriptions of inpatients was conducted at Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) Hyderabad. Five hundred and fifteen prescriptions were collected randomly from medicine, gynecology and obstetrics and urology department during one year from 01-09-2017 to 31-08-2018. Medications errors were identified by Pharmacist by comparing the prescriptions with standard of British National Formulary (BNF) (edition 73) and informing physician for resolving medication errors. Data was analyzed with statistical package for social sciences version 25.0.
Results: Out of 515 inpatients prescriptions, male patients were 248 (48.2%) and female were 267 (51.8%) with male to female ratio of 1:1.08 and mean age of 37.7 ± 11.6 (18-60) years. 427 medication errors were reported in 303 (59.4%) prescriptions including; omission error 64 (15.0%), unauthorized drug error 41 (9.6%), wrong dose error 67 (15.7%), wrong time error 74 (17.3%), wrong dosage form error 27 (6.3%), wrong route error 23 (5.4%), wrong drug preparation 44 (10.3%), wrong rate error 56 (13.1%) and incorrect administration technique 31 (7.3%). 172 (40.3%) interventions of pharmacists were accepted by physicians.
Conclusion: Rate of medication errors in inpatients prescriptions are high with possible errors of dose, time, omission, rate, drug preparation and others. Pharmacist effectively intervening the prescriptions and playing active role in decreasing medication errors.
Objectives: To determine the association of obesity and hypertension among the faculty members of ShaheedMohtarma Benazir Bhutto University Larkana.
Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 340 subjects from SMBB Medical University. A self-administered questionnaire, mercury sphygmomanometer, stethoscope, weighing and height scales were the research instruments, data was entered and analyzed using the statistical program for social sciences SPSS version 19.
Results: A 340 subjects were included in the study. There were 123 (36.2%) female and 217 (63.8%) male participants, Prevalence of hypertension in the sample was 31.5% (27.6% in females and 33.6% in males) Hypertension was more comparatively more prevalent in overweight group (39.3%) and obese group (32.5%).
Conclusion: Obesity is an important public health challenge in the study setting and its highly associated with HTN. Prevalence of Obesity and hypertension among university teachers was observed significantly higher compared to the general population. Measures to prevent the obesity and hypertension are strongly recommended.
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