With the emergence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), healthy lifestyle has become critical to not only reduce the burden of NCDs, but also to prevent complications and severity of these diseases. Knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) pertaining to healthy lifestyle play an important role in determining the occurrence and progress of NCDs. KAP elements are interrelated and dependent on each other. While awareness campaigns provide necessary information to people on healthy lifestyle, how well this information is utilised is a grey area. The objective of this rapid review is to understand the relationship between KAP elements pertaining to healthy lifestyle among individuals who are at risk of developing NCDs and those who are living with NCDs. For this purpose, a rapid review of articles available on Google scholar and Pubmed was conducted. Articles focusing on KAP elements pertaining to healthy lifestyle from the year 2015-2021 were reviewed. Findings from the reviewed studies suggested that people have knowledge about the harmful effects of unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco and alcohol. People have a positive attitude towards healthy lifestyle, however, being knowledgeable and having a positive attitude did not translate into practicing healthy lifestyle due to multiple barriers to translate existing knowledge into practice. Since practice scores are poor among people, existing behaviour change strategies must be re-examined. An epistemological analysis of existing human behaviour with identified barriers and facilitators to adopt healthy lifestyle can help in formulating sustainable and effective social and behaviour change interventions.

This study empirically investigates how the different e-payment methods performed during the pandemic as an alternative medium to the traditional mode of payment. E-payment methods namely Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT), Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS), Unified Payments Interface (UPI), and Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) are considered from June 1, 2020, to November 30, 2021, when the global pandemic was at its peak. Secondary daily data are considered in this study collected from the RBI database which was converted into corresponding log natural returns. GARCH (1,1) model was applied as the tool for analysis. It was noted that RTGS, AEPS, and UPI undergo positive volatility whereas NEFT and IMPS undergo negative volatility which enables us to conclude that RTGS, AEPS, and UPI are much more acceptable mediums of payments during the pandemic than the others.

Augmented reality requires integration of real-world objects, gestures and actions with the virtual objects. Effective and realistic integration requires solving the complex task of recognition, classification, tracking of objects, gestures and actions, where gesture recognition and action mapping is an active problem in the field of augmented reality, seeking attention for optimized latency, power and throughput. This paper introduces the technique of frame processing with active tile identification to optimize the latency of Convolution neural network in the light of action mapping in augmented reality. The effectiveness of the technique being introduced is evaluated by applying it to the Bharatanatyam Mudra classification and measuring the obtained latency, power and throughput and comparing the obtained results with that of the traditional Convolution neural network. The comparison shows the technique to be effective in terms of the latency, with the best effectiveness factor of 2.30 and least being 1.25.

Poster session 1, September 21, 2022, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Objectives There is an increasing incidence of recalcitrant dermatophytosis in India due to irrational use of antifungals, inappropriate treatment, and also in vitro resistance of the organism by itself. This study is done to determine the clinic-mycological profile, antifungal susceptibility, and outcome of patients with dermatophytosis in our institute. Methods All patients with culture-proven dermatophytosis attending the outpatient department of our hospital from January 2019 to December 2019 were included in the study. Detailed clinical data of all the patients were collected. Morphological Identification of the dermatophytes was done by conventional mycological methods. The isolates were sent to PGIMER Chandigarh for further identification by MALDI-TOF and antifungal susceptibility testing. Antifungal susceptibility testing was done for 47 isolates of Trichophyton species. Results Of the 155 clinical suspected cases, growth of dermatophytes was observed in 55 (35.4%) of the cases. Tinea corporis 39/55(70.9%) was the predominant clinical type The duration of infection was less than 6 months in 22/55(40%) of cases and >6 months in 33(60%) of the cases. Majority of the patients were in the age group of 20-30 years and were male. A total of 36/55 (65.4%) of the patients belong to middle socio-economic status and 19/55 to lower socioeconomic status (34.5%). In all, 10/55(19.2%) of the patients were students and 10/55 (19.2%) housewives; others include auto drivers, mechanics, teachers, cashiers, etc. All except 4 patients were from urban areas. Comorbid conditions noted were diabetes mellitus in 7/55 (12.7%), hypertension in 6/55 (10.9%), systemic steroid usage in 3/55 (5.4%), post-renal transplant status in 1/55 (1.8%), and SLE in 1/55 (1.8%). Sharing of personal use items was found in 12/55 (21.8%) of the patients and 9/55 (16.3%) of patients complained of excessive sweating. Previous therapy with topical and systemic antifungals was given in 32/55 (58.8%) of the patients, other modes of treatment like homeopathy, and ayurveda in 4/55 (7.2%). Topical steroids were given to 4 patients and 19/55 (34.5%) of the patients were not treated for the infection. Trichophyton mentagrophytes complex (69%) was the predominant species complex isolated followed by T. rubrum, M. gypseum, M.canis, and T. tonsurans. Of the 47 Trichophyton isolates subjected to AFST, all the isolates showed MIC >1ug/ml for fluconazole and griseofulvin. Majority of the isolates showed MIC of <1 ug/ml for other antifungals; high MICs (MIC >1) were exhibited by 5 isolates for terbinafine and naftifine, 2 isolates for sertoconazole, and 1 isolate for voriconazole. Molecular detection of terbinafine resistance done in 15/55 isolates showed mutation in the squalene epoxidase (SE) gene leading to F397L substitutions in 2 isolates. In the present study, the patients were treated with both oral and topical antifungals Of the 55 cases, complete cure was observed in 21 (38%), partial cure in 9 (16.3%), and relapse in 5 (9%) on 2 years follow-up. However, 20/55 (36.3%) of the cases were lost to follow-up. Conclusion Trichophyton mentagrophytes complex was the predominant species isolated and Tinea corporis was the commonest clinical presentation. Resistance to terbinafine, griseofulvin, and fluconazole has been noted. Dermatophytosis has become a difficult to treat disease due to antifungal resistance, and chronicity/recurrence of the lesions. Early diagnosis followed by rational antifungal therapy are essential for improved outcome.

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