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Objectives: Nursing staff is at potential danger of getting HCV infection. Objective of present study is to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of hepatitis C among nurses in Lahore, Pakistan. It also aimed to estimate the HCV genotypes and find out any relationship between their working area and the incidence of HCV infection
Setting: Various public and private hospitals of Lahore
Period: January 2013 to December 2013
Subjects and Method: This study comprised 186 Nurses. All the samples were processed for Anti-HCV antibody detection through ELISA by using third generation ELISA Kit. Genotyping was also performed on all positive samples. In this study the data were analyzed using SPSS version 16. A P-value < 0.05 was considered to be significant
Results: A total of 186 nurses were enrolled and screened for Anti HCV in the study. The mean age of reactive and non reactive nurses was 22.33 +/- 1.15 and 23.66 +/- 1.97 years, respectively. Working experience in surgical wards, habits for going to beauty salon as well as the purpose for which nurses visited beauty salon was significantly associated with HCV status. i.e. p-value<0.05. Out of 9 reactive nurses, 8 patient nurses had 3a viral genotype while 01 patient had un-typeable viral genotype
Conclusion: In our study nine nurses have HCV infection and are at danger of the disease.The working area especially surgical wards is a source of infection of HCV
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To compare the frequency of depression among fertile and infertile women reporting in CMH Abbottabad. A case control study. This study was conducted in combined military hospital abbottabad, over a period of six months from January 2013 to June 2013. The inclusion criteria were all those patients who were married. All the cases were selected from the women reporting in the obstetrics and gynecology department of CMH Abbottabad for investigation and treatment of infertility. A total of 200 patients, 100 fertile and 100 infertile women were included. Patients were given questionnaire form with their consent for research. Beck depression inventory [BDI] was used to assess depression among fertile and infertile women. Other factors such as age, education level, and duration of infertility, pressure from family members, miscarriages, and support from husband were studied. Depression was significantly higher in infertile women as compared to fertile women i.e. 95% vs. 63% [p<0.001]. It was higher among women with more than 1 year of duration of marriage as compared to those with infertility of one year duration or less. Infertility is associated with depression