53 research outputs found
Loss to follow-up among children in pre-ART care under the National AIDS Programme, Tamil Nadu, South India
Internal validity and reliability of experience-based household food insecurity scales in Indian settings
Prevalence of Household-level Food Insecurity and Its Determinants in an Urban Resettlement Colony in North India
An adequate food intake, in terms of quantity and quality, is a key to
healthy life. Malnutrition is the most serious consequence of food
insecurity and has a multitude of health and economic implications.
India has the world\u2019s largest population living in slums, and
these have largely been underserved areas. The State of Food Insecurity
in the World (2012) estimates that India is home to more than 217
million undernourished people. Various studies have been conducted to
assess food insecurity at the global level; however, the literature is
limited as far as India is concerned. The present study was conducted
with the objective of documenting the prevalence of food insecurity at
the household level and the factors determining its existence in an
urban slum population of northern India. This cross-sectional study was
conducted in an urban resettlement colony of South Delhi, India. A
pre-designed, pre-tested, semi-structured questionnaire was used for
collecting socioeconomic details and information regarding dietary
practices. Food insecurity was assessed using Household Food Insecurity
Access Scale (HFIAS). Logistic regression analysis was performed to
determine the factors associated with food insecurity. A total of 250
women were interviewed through house-to-house survey. Majority of the
households were having a nuclear family (61.6%), with mean familysize
being 5.5 (SD\ub12.5) and the mean monthly household income being INR
9,784 (SD\ub1631). Nearly half (53.3%) of the mean monthly household
income was spent on food. The study found that a total of 77.2%
households were food-insecure, with 49.2% households being mildly
food-insecure, 18.8% of the households being moderately food-insecure,
and 9.2% of the households being severely food-insecure. Higher
education of the women handling food (OR 0.37, 95% CI 0.15-0.92;
p 640.03) and number of earning members in the household (OR 0.68,
95% CI 0.48-0.98; p 640.04) were associated with lesser chance/odds
of being food-insecure. The study demonstrated a high prevalence of
food insecurity in the marginalized section of the urban society. The
Government of India needs to adopt urgent measures to combat this
problem
Widespread fear of dengue transmission but poor practices of dengue prevention : A study in the slums of Delhi, India
Background This study has been conducted to throw light on the knowledge and practices related to dengue fever among the poor population living in Delhi's slums. Materials A household survey was conducted in 2013 among 3,350 households. The households were stratified by a number of variables related to socio-economic status and health events such as hospitalisation. The data collection was completed through face-to-face interviews conducted with the help of 25 field investigators. Results About 8% of the households had at least one diagnosed dengue case. In comparison to the population surveyed, teenagers (15-19 years) and adults (30-34 years) were more affected whereas children under four years of age were underrepresented. Housewives are more affected by dengue (24%) compared to their share of the population surveyed (17%). Despite the fact that 77% of the respondents are worried about mosquitoes, only 43% of them monitor environment to avoid the presence of breeding sites. Conclusion One cannot exclude the possibility that though young children under the age of four years are exposed to the virus, either their cases were asymptomatic or family members infected during this period had potentially more serious symptoms leading to hospitalisation. This result could thus be explained by budget-related health choices made by this population which do not favour small children. Educational programs should target housewives to improve their impact, as they are the ones mostly responsible for water storage and cleanliness of the house and its neighbourhood. Even with a dengue experience and potentially an acute perception of the risk and its factors, a proper management of environmental conditions is lacking. This along with the fact that word-of-mouth is the main source of information quoted should be a message for municipality health workers to give door-to-door information on how to prevent breeding sites and dengue infection
Morbidity, utilization of curative care and service entry point preferences in metropolitan Centro Habana, Cuba
Are current case-finding methods under-diagnosing tuberculosis among women in Myanmar? An analysis of operational data from Yangon and the nationwide prevalence survey
Strengthening the perception-assessment tools for dengue prevention: a cross-sectional survey in a temperate region (Madeira, Portugal)
Perception and utilization of public health services in Southeast Nigeria: Implication for health care in communities with different degrees of urbanization
Determinants of Household Food Insecurity in Rural Areas of the Hilly Region of Kumaun, Uttarakhand, India: A Pilot Study
Short EpiData course: do participants use the data entry tool two years post-training?
SETTING: Training courses on data entry are few and far between compared to analysis. To address this gap, we conducted a short 2-day course on quality-assured data capture using EpiData for public health professionals in Bangalore and Puducherry, India, in 2013. OBJECTIVE: To determine the proportion of participants who used EpiData and taught the software to others during the 2-years after training and explore the reasons for doing/not doing so. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study with self-administered, semi-structured questionnaire developed using web-based Google Forms. We performed a manual thematic analysis to identify the major reasons for using/not using EpiData. RESULTS: Of 46 participants, 38 (83%) responded. Of 31 participants involved in research, 17 (55%) had used EpiData, of whom 6 (35%) had performed double entry and validation. Of the 14 who did not use EpiData, 11 had used MS Excel or SPSS/Epi Info for data entry. Of the 38 respondents, 29 (76%) had taught EpiData to other colleagues and students. Reasons for using EpiData included its user-friendliness, its being open access and the ease in preventing data entry errors. Reasons for not performing double entry included lack of time and manpower. CONCLUSION: The short course on EpiData was effective in knowledge transfer and provides a scalable model for incorporation into the teaching curricula of medical schools and research institutions
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