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Background: Occupational health hazards are very common. With promotion of industrial life, the prevalence of low back pain has increased markedly during the past decades. Many factors at work could predispose people to develop musculoskeletal disorders. The goals of a medical school are to produce competent, professional doctors and promote health care of society. But during the period of medical training, students are exposed to stress, study problems, long training hours in hospital wards and clinics. In addition to the increasing use of computers in teaching and learning.Methods: This cross-sectional study will be carried out among medical students of new final year (n=145) in government medical college in Patiala Punjab during the period April 2018. Data collected from the students were analyzed and frequencies and percentage were presented for categorical variables.Results: Most of the students 68.27% had experienced back pain in 12 months period (excluding the premenstrual pain. Among 68.27% students 3.4% students suffered low back pain always, 10.34 % students suffered pain frequently and 58.62% students suffered pain seldom.Conclusions: There was high prevalence of LBP among medical students and many risk factors like lack of exercise, physical activities, carrying bag packs were present and it highlight a need for behavior change communication, education, counseling, and restructuring of the medical curriculum.
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Background: Nurses as healthcare providers obliged to protect herself and patients against infections. Therefore, nurses should have knowledge and strict adherence to standard precautions. Hence, this study was undertaken to assess the knowledge and practices of nursing staff regarding standard precautions. Aims and objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge of nursing staff regarding standard precaution and to observe the practices of nursing staff regarding standard precaution.Methods: This was a cross sectional study conducted among staff nurses working in Bhim Rao Ambedkar Memorial Hospital, Raipur, and Chhattisgarh, from January to March 2017 among 100 staff nurses. Pretested predesigned semi-structured questionnaires were used. Data collected were entered in Microsoft excel sheet. The statistical analysis was done by using epi info 7. Frequencies and percentage were presented for categorical variables.Results: The overall knowledge regarding standard precaution were excellent (>75% score) in 8% nurses. Good knowledge (50 to 75%) in 83% and average (25 to 50%) in 9%. The Practises regarding standard precautions among the nurses were good in 72%, excellent in 17% and average in 11%.Conclusions: Based on the findings of the present study, it can be concluded that in spite of having good knowledge regarding standard precaution among the nurses, practices were not to up to the mark.
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Background: Rabies is a preventable enzootic endemic disease in India, it is a viral disease caused by Lysavirus causing acute inflammation of brain in humans and other warm blooded animals. It is typically transmitted through bites from infected animal. Human rabies deaths are almost entirely preventable through prompt delivery of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to victims of bites by rabid animal. Appropriate knowledge regarding rabies and its prevention among medical students is very important to prevent rabies deaths. The aims and objectives of the study were to assess awareness regarding rabies amongst medical students.Methods: This was a cross sectional study which was conducted in month of April 2018. There were total of 496 students, we could obtain the information from 373 students as the questionnaire was given during a theory class and some of the students were absent. A pretested, structured questionnaire was administered to assess their knowledge about rabies, classification and management of bite wounds, including different vaccination schedules, site and dose. The data was entered using Microsoft excel and statically analysed by Epi Info 7.Results: Almost all (97.32%) students knew that rabies is a fatal disease and 78.02% knew that dog was the primary transmitting animal. Only 41.29% students were aware that head, neck and face to be the danger site of bite. Almost all 98.6% students were aware about washing the wound with soap and water as the primary first aid measure following dog bite whereas 0.27% said suturing as first aid measure.Conclusions: Awareness of medical students regarding cause of rabies and its fatality were good but they had less awareness about the danger sites of animal bite.