Contraceptive attitude and behaviour among university men: a study from Punjab, Pakistan

The men's attitudes towards family planning and on the use of family planning method may affect not only their wives intention to use contraception but also the choice of a particular family planning method. This focus of this study is to assess the educated men's role, belief, practice and their participation in family planning. A cross-sectional data on 150 university male employees was taken. The logistic regression in connection with stepwise procedures is used to find the most significant variables that influence the men's current use of contraception status. About 42 percent of the married male employees were users of family planning methods. Among family planning methods, condom was the most used method [about 71%] followed by traditional methods [14%]. The mean age at first marriage of the respondents was 23 years and for the spouses it was 19 years. The knowledge of men in family planning methods is quite universal and general; but the attitude on the use of contraceptives and the family planning method is much different between the employees who had the awareness of contraception and those who had no awareness

Job satisfaction among doctors working at teaching hospital of Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Doctor's profession has long been among one of the most attractive professions in Pakistani society, but doctors are increasingly getting dissatisfied with their jobs. The focus of this study is to point out the most prominent factors of job dissatisfaction among doctors working at Bahawal-Victoria Hospital/Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur. A questionnaire was mailed to a random sample of 60 out of 244 doctors working at Bahawal-Victoria Hospital/Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur. Questions included satisfaction with respect to designation, income, service structure, career prospects etc. Overall 56% doctors were not satisfied with the level of their income. It is found that 92% of all the doctors were neither satisfied with the present service structure nor with the career prospects in Pakistan. Further, 78% of the doctors would like to serve abroad. Main factors contributing towards job satisfaction were designation and working environment whereas service structure turned out to be the source of dissatisfaction. Most of the doctors in all ranks and with different qualifications were not found satisfied with their job due to lack of proper service structure and low salaries

Depression amongst epileptic patients

To evaluate the proportion of depression amongst epileptic patients. Cross-sectional study. The study was carried out in CMH Pano Aqil September 2003 to September 2004. One hundred consecutive cases of primary epilepsy from the outpatient department were included in the study sample. Patients with severe physical or mental disability were excluded from the study. Standardized translated Urdu version of Beck Depression Inventory was used to evaluate depression. ICD-10 criteria for depression was used for such patients. Statistical significance was calculated by using SPSS computer software programme. Out of 100 epileptics, 36 patients were found to be depressed. There is very significant depressive morbidity in epileptic patients and is under diagnosed and hence under treated. There is need to address this aspect very seriously