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Background: Career counseling to medical students is vital for future needs of health care system
Objective: To assess the perception of students in choosing the medical profession and their future career planning
Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted at Sheikh Zayed Medical College/Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan Pakistan, comprising 152 medical students. The questionnaire included questions on demographic information like age, sex, and year of study, reasons for choosing medical profession, future plans for specialization and choice of career in Pakistan or abroad, and their plans after graduation. SPSS 16 was used for data entry and statistical analysis
Results: Total number of study subjects was 152. Female participants were 62%. Mean age of participants was 22 +/- 2 year.77 [51%] students said they chose the medical profession because their parents wanted them to be doctors; while 50 [33%] chose the career to serve ailing humanity. Regarding specialization, in this study, 13.2% wanted to specialize in Surgery, 14.5% in Medicine, 3% in Public Health, while 24.3% did not want to pursue the medical profession and applied for positions in civil service by appearing in the Central Superior Services [CSS]. While 68%[103] students wanted to pursue the medical profession in Pakistan, the rest preferred to go to the United Kingdom 18.4%, 10% in America and 4% in Australia
Conclusion: Our study showed that most of the medical students selected medical profession due to parental and peer pressure. It was found that one third wanted to leave the country after graduation and one third wanted to leave the profession after graduation. It shows the lack of career counseling at undergraduate level in country
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Background: Psychiatric illness is mental disorder or mental illness that can be explained as mental or behavior pattern that causes either suffering or poor ability to function in ordinary life. In our country psychiatric problems are increasing day by day. Very little has been done in South Punjab in this regard
Objective: To assess the health seeking behavior among psychiatric patients attending Psychiatric OPD of Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan
Methodology: Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Psychiatry Outdoor, Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan. Duration: From 15 February to 15 May 2016. Sample Size:116 patients were interviewed. Apredesigned and pre-tested questionnaire was used for the data collection. Subjects of study were all the patients who were suffering from Psychiatric illness between 18-65 years of age and of either sex. Atotal of 116 consecutive patients were included in the study. The questionnaire was prepared and presented. It included variables on age, sex, socioeconomic status, family history, occupation, marital status and education and questions on health seeking behavior, like Health care provider, 1 contact, 2 contact, 3 contact and 4 contact, distance travelled for health care. All data was collected after getting informed verbal consent from patients. Data was entered and analyzed by using SPSS 16. The frequencies and percentages were calculated on categorical variables. Means and Standard Deviation were calculated on numerical variables. The data was entered and analyzed by using SPSS version 16
Results: There were total of 116 subjects included in study. 64% patients were males and 36% were females. 32.8% were illiterate while 36.2% had primary level education. 81% mothers and46.6% fathers of patients were illiterate. 63.8% patients were married and 67.2% were living in urban areas. Among 116 patients, 41.4% has depression, 19% epilepsy, 17.2% anxiety, 12.1 % schizophrenia and 10.3 % insomnia. Out of those, 56.9% of the patients went to Spiritual healer, 20.7% to Psychiatrist, 13.8% to Physician and 8.8% to Hakim overall in the study for the treatment of their psychiatric problems
Conclusion: This study showed that more than half of the patients with psychiatric problems went to Spiritual healers as first contact for health care. There is a dire need of health education programme to launch for the sensitization of people regarding to improve quality of life of psychiatric patients and improve health seeking behaviour
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Background: Myopia is one of the preventable cause of visual impairment
Objective: Objective of this study was to determine the frequency and risk factors for myopia among children [6-12 years] visiting Ophthalmology outpatient department of Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur
Patients and Methods: It was cross sectional study conducted in Ophthalmology outpatient, department of Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur from 1[st] July, 2012 to 30[th] June 2013. After taking ethical approval from hospital ethical committee, all the children aged 6-12 years visiting Ophthalmology outpatient department, whose parents had endorsed informed written consent, were included in the study. After collecting personal detail of each participant, and noting risk factors from their parents by using questionnaire, the visual acuity of each child was checked by using Snellen's chart. The children having visual acuity less than 6/6 in at least one eye underwent refraction by using retinoscopy after 1% cyclopentolate eye drops had been instilled at least half an hour previously. Data was entered and analyzed by using SPSS version 17. Spherical equivalents equal to or more than -0.50 D in either eye was taken as myopic. Chi square test was applied to see any statistical difference if existed and p-value
Results: Out of total 2936 children, 57.93% were myopic. 32.86% children were in the age group of 6-8 years, 54.67% in 9-11 years and 12.47% were >/= 12 years of age. 67.37% children were females. Family history of myopia was positive in 65.8% children. The reading hours of 17.3% children were 8 hours per day in 6.48%. The duration of TV watching was 4 hours in 2.02% children. 60.72% of the children were spending their time in playing video games or using computer for 4 hours
Conclusion: There is strong association of myopia with near work and parental myopia