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Background: Increased use of mobile phones has led to increase in the prevalence of health problems. Hence, the presentstudy was undertaken to assess the pattern of the use of mobile phone and its association with self-reported health problemsamong adults.Materials and Methods: A total of 1520 participants visiting a private dental institute in Dhule, Maharashtra, were interviewedusing a pre-tested, structured questionnaire. The questionnaire included variables such as socio-demographic details, use ofmobile phone use and its pattern, selected health problems, perceived benefits, or threats of the use of mobile phone. Dataobtained were analyzed using SPSS software.Results: The majority of the participants (87.9%) were using mobile phone for up to 3 h daily. The majority of the participants(98.3%) reported using mobile phone for calling facility followed by internet or social networking purpose (67.2%). Healthsymptoms such as headache, stressful eyes, tiredness, and painful fingers showed an increased prevalence with increase in thedaily usage of mobile phones; whereas hypertension was inversely related to the use of mobile phone. Most of the participantsagreed that they start feeling stressed or anxious without their mobile phones.Conclusion: Selected health problems showed a positive association with increasing mobile phone use. People should bemade aware of harmful effects caused due to over-indulgence in the use of mobile phone and should restrict the use of focusonly on mobile positive phones to the minimum possible.
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Background: Induction of labor is one of the great challenges for obstetric care provider. Misoprostol is used for induction of labor by various routes with the advantages in being cheap and stable at room temperature and widely available even in resource-poor settings.Methods: A randomized controlled study was conducted in the obstetrics and gynecology department of Govt. Medical College and associated Maharani Hospital, Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India over a period of 1.75 years from September 2014 to May 2016. Study has comprised of 200 pregnant women admitted in the department for induction of labor fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data was collected and analyzed by SPSS 16.0. z-test and chi-square test to compare the safety and efficacy of both the routes of misoprostol use for IOL.Results: There were insignificant differences in number of doses required for induction with satisfactory maternal and neonatal outcome but shorter (12 hours) induction delivery interval with sublingual Misoprostol induction. Most of the cases of both the groups were delivered by vaginal route (86% and 62%) within 12 hours of induction(58% and 42%) yet significant (p value < 0.001) number of cases had undergone caesarean in group of vaginal misoprostol administration (29%) with major indications of meconium stained liquor (3% and 12%) and non assuring fetal heart rate (1% and 10%).Conclusions: Although both the routes of induction by Misoprostol are well tolerated by the women with satisfactory neonatal outcome, sublingual Misoprostol has an added advantage of quicker delivery, less caesarean and ease of administration indicates better safety and effectiveness.