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Background: Adolescence is considered as a stressful phase due to physical, psychological, and sexual changes. Due to stress overload, people from adolescent age group easily fall prey to mood disturbances such as anxiety and depression compromising their quality of life. Objectives: The objectives of the study were to study the prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of stress, among urban and rural areas of Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh. Materials and Methods: A present cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2017 to December 2017 among adolescents of field practice areas of the Department of Community Medicine, Teerthanker Mahaveer Medical College and Research Centre, Moradabad. A total of 400 participants were selected using a multistage sampling design with a random approach. Results: Majority of adolescents (165) belonged to late adolescent followed by early (119) and midadolescent (116). One hundred and thirteen adolescents were in primary school, high school (124), intermediate (100), and illiterate (18). About 54.5% of adolescents belonged to nuclear families. Amongst our 400 study participants 49.3% reported of being stressed. This was significantly more in mid and late adolescents, who were living either alone or belonging to nuclear families, children of illiterate parents, belonging to lower socioeconomic class (58.7%) followed by participants from upper socioeconomic class (51.8%). Conclusion: Our study draws attention to the high prevalence of stress among adolescents. Identification of stress can enable us to intervene proactively which can avert further complications. We recommend strengthening the information, education, and communication activities for prevention, early identification, and timely treatment for stress in adolescents.
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Background: Corneal blindness is one of the major causes of blindness and vision can be successfully restored by corneal transplantation. Eye donation can improve the availability of cornea, but it depends on awareness and willingness in general population. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the awareness and willingness of urban population of western UP about eye donation and to correlate factors with willingness. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly selected 400 residents >30 years of age of urban field practice area of the Department of Community Medicine, TMMC and RC, Moradabad. Pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to obtain information about the awareness and perception regarding eye donation. Results: Of 400 participants, 75% were aware about eye donation and 25% were ignorant; print and electronic media were the most common source of information. 51.6 % knew about the time limit of eye donation. 63.5% were willing for eye donation; willingness for eye donation was significantly higher in younger age group, males, and well-educated participants. Conclusion: Our study establishes the need to improve the awareness of eye donation in the study population. The most idealist public health approach would be, to reduce the occurrence of vision loss due to corneal diseases, with effective preventive policies, but as a short-term goal, the key way to deal with corneal blindness is to obtain the required number of corneas for transplantation.
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This cross-sectional study was carried out to assess drug prescribing pattern at a tertiary care teaching medical institute. One thousand prescriptions were randomly collected and analyzed using the world health organization prescribing indicators. The average number of drugs per prescription was 2.91. The percentage of drugs prescribed by generic name, from the essential drug list (National) and as fixed dose combinations (FDCs) was 10.05%, 22.57%, and 49.22%, respectively. The total percentage of encounters with antibiotics, injectables, and FDCs was 19.70%, 2.20%, and 73.60%, respectively. The most common group of drug prescribed was gastrointestinal tract drugs (26.38%) followed by Vitamins and Minerals (23.12%), cardiovascular system drugs (11.56%) and antimicrobials (9.63%). The prescribing practices were not appropriate as they consist of polypharmacy, lesser prescription by generic name, and overprescription of FDCs. There is a need for improvement in the standards of prescribing patterns in many aspects.
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Neonatal suppurative parotitis(NSP) is an uncommon illness in the neonate. Here, to the best of our knowledge we describe first case of newborn who developed NSP due to acenatobacter species and was treated successfully with antibiotics.