Community Medicine with Recent Advances

Suryakantha, AH

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“…Out of the students who have answered (n=52), most of them (30.7%) were in class II of Modified Prasad scale. 6 Mean age of menarche was 11.95 years with a SD of 1.08, range between 8-14 years. 42% knew about menstrual cycle before their menarche.…”

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Menstrual hygiene among adolescent school students: An indepth cross-sectional study in an urban community of WestBengal, India

Yasmin¹,

Manna²,

Mallik³

et al. 2013

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confidence: 99%

Menstrual hygiene among adolescent school students: An indepth cross-sectional study in an urban community of WestBengal, India

Yasmin¹,

Manna²,

Mallik³

et al. 2013

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“…[4] There has been definitive evidence to show that 70-80% cases of cervical cancers are due to persistent infection by the sexually transmitted HPV types 16 and 18. [5,6] Cervical cancer remains largely uncontrolled in high-risk developing countries due to ineffective or no screening.…”

Section: International Journal Of Medical Science and Public Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Awareness and attitude about carcinoma cervix and human papillomavirus vaccine: A cross-sectional study among undergraduate female medical students

Tripathy¹,

Karmee²,

Behera³

et al. 2017

Int J Med Sci Public Health

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deaths.[1] According to data of 2017, in India every year 122844 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 67477 die from the disease. Cervical cancer ranks the 2 nd most frequent cancer among women in India and the 2 nd most frequent cancer among women between 15 and 44 years of age. About 5.0% of women in the general population are estimated to harbor cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) -16/18 infection at a given time.[3]The principal causative agent for the development of cervical cancer is the infection of specific high-risk types of HPVs. Although more than 140 types of HPVs have been identified only about 40 types are sexually transmitted. Of these, two high-risk HPV types 16 and HPV 18 are responsible for more than 80% of cervical cancer in India, and the low-risk types are HPV-6 and HPV-11, which cause genital warts, the Research ArticleBackground: Cancer cervix is the leading type of cancer in India. One woman die of cervical cancer in every 8 min in India. The primary cause of developing cervical cancer is chronic infection with high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPVs). Vaccination against HPV is the primary mode of prevention from cancer cervix. Objective: The objective of the study was to assess the awareness and attitude of young medical students about cancer cervix, its cause and HPV vaccine. Materials and Methods: An observational cross-sectional study was done among 2 nd year to final year female medical students of M.K.C.G Medical College and Hospital for a period of 2 months. Data were collected using a self-administered, semi-structured, and pre-tested questionnaire. The study explored knowledge on HPV infection and cervical cancer, as well as awareness regarding the vaccine and their willingness to take the vaccine. Results: In the present study student's awareness about etiology of cancer cervix was 100%. About 98.6% of students knew about the high-risk strains of HPVs causing cancer. The awareness about preventable nature of cancer cervix among study participants was 93.8% and 92.5% students knew that the vaccine is available in India. About 87% of students wanted to be immunized with HPV vaccine. Conclusion: There is not enough knowledge about cancer cervix and HPV vaccine among medical students. Information regarding cancer cervix and HPV vaccine should be included early in the medical education curriculum. Group discussions and forums should be conducted to fill the knowledge gap.

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“…United Nations considers 60 years as the age of transition to the elderly age group. In India, people aged 60 years and above are treated as old [5,6] and this definition was used for conducting the present study.…”

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Study of disability level of daily activity in geriatric population living in rural area of an Indian City

Khatri¹,

Sharma²,

Hossain³

et al. 2017

JPPCM

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Objective: At present geriatrics has not been fully established as a speciality in India and Rajasthan. The problems associated with the ageing of the population are that of absence of facilities of medical treatment and providing economic and social support. Hence, information on morbidity profile of the population is essential for planning its health care facilities. Therefore, the present study was undertaken on the morbidity pattern among geriatric population in the field practice area of RHTC, Achrol. Material and method: The present study is a community based cross-sectional study. Study population included all the elderly persons of 60 years and above age group, residing in the field practice area of RHTC Achrol. Result: This study showed that almost half of the elderly i.e. 47.7% had normal gait & stability and out of them majority i.e. 85.3% belonged to 60 to 64 years of age group, while the proportion of elderly having normal but slow and limited physical activity was found to increase significantly (p<0.05) with age i.e. from 14.8% & 0.0% respectively in age group 60 to 64 years to 42.8% and 57.1% respectively in >80 age group. Conclusion: It was found that higher proportion of females i.e. 53.6% than males i.e. 51.4% had gait disturbances (p>0.05).

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Community Medicine with Recent Advances

Cited by 67 publications

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Menstrual hygiene among adolescent school students: An indepth cross-sectional study in an urban community of WestBengal, India

Menstrual hygiene among adolescent school students: An indepth cross-sectional study in an urban community of WestBengal, India

Awareness and attitude about carcinoma cervix and human papillomavirus vaccine: A cross-sectional study among undergraduate female medical students

Study of disability level of daily activity in geriatric population living in rural area of an Indian City

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