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Background: Developing countries including India are in epidemiologic health transition resulting in increased life expectancy and increase in geriatric population. Geriatric population is considered the most vulnerable population. Many factors such as age, income, education, environment have a significant impact on quality of life. Hence our study aims at assessing the Quality of life and activities of daily living among geriatric population in Bengaluru city. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out for a period of 3 months - August to October 2016 among 250 geriatric study participants residing in the slums of Bangalore. Data was collected using WHOQOL-BREF scale and Katz Index of Independence of Activities of Daily Living by interview method. Results: Out of 250 study participants, males were 127 (50.8%) and females were 123 (49.2%). Quality of life was found to be average with a mean score of 50.02 (11.13) and with a least score of 44.55 (12.54) for environmental domain. Conclusions: Significant association was found between quality of life and factors like age, functional capacity, education and environment. Improving access of elderly to health facilities, providing health education, psychological support, and modification of environment helps to improve the quality of life among aged population.

A cross sectional study to assess the prevalence of bullying among the high school students in schools of Bangalore urban district.

Background: Menstruation is a physiological process but generally it is considered as unclean in the Indian society. Hygiene related practices of menstruation are of considerable importance as it has health impact in terms of increased vulnerability to reproductive tract infections (RTI) and drop outs from school. A good knowledge regarding menstrual hygiene is important during adolescence age which helps to practice good hygiene, minimize the sufferings of women and to manage their menstruation without any hesitation.Methods: A cross sectional study was undertaken in a rural field practice area of BMCRI, Bengaluru. Data was collected from 311 adolescent girls by using predesigned semi structured questionnaire.Results: It was evident that 38.3% participants were aware about menstruation before their menarche and among them; mothers were the main source of the information for 72.3% girls. It was found that 80.4% respondents used sanitary pads and 73.6% girls did not have practice of changing the adsorbent in the school. Only 27.7% had the practice of changing ≥4 pads/cloths per day during the menstruation. Majority of the girls were restricted to enter the place of worship (73.3%) and to attend the religious functions (41.5%) and also restriction to eat certain food items among 20.3% girls. There was a significant association between the religion and the frequency of changing the adsorbent and cleaning the external genitalia during the menstrual period.Conclusions: This study could found that majority of the girls had no information about menstruation before menarche. Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) was very poor.