Knowledge and treatment seeking behavior regarding malaria among the residents of tribal dominated areas of Mandla district in central India – A cross-sectional study

Background: Malaria is both a result and a cause of a lack of development. Dearth of information, education, and communication activities and awareness, knowledge regarding malaria is poor particularly in tribal population of Mandla. Aims and Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the malaria knowledge and treatment-seeking behavior among the residents of the tribal dominated areas of Mandla district and to study their association with the sociodemographic characteristics. Materials and Methods: A total of eight villages were selected from which 25 households were randomly selected making a total sample size of 200 households, from these 200 households, 200 adult respondents were identified for administration of the study questionnaire. Results: The age of the respondents ranged from 18 to 80 years, with a mean age of 37 years (SD=14.7). Overall, 48.5% of respondents had correct knowledge about perceived cause of getting malaria. The treatment seeking behavior of the respondents were associated with sociodemographic profile of the participants the age of the participants, the association was found to be highly statistically significant (P=0.001). Conclusion: Malaria prevention campaigns should be tailored according to knowledge gaps, practices, environment, resources, and preferences in different areas of the Mandla District, using the health education/awareness most likely to outreach the far corners of the district where most residents were tribals

Internet addiction, behavioural aspects, and health related problems associated with it: a cross sectional study among engineering students of Jabalpur district

Background: With the rise of new generation gadgets, the risk of “internet addiction” is emerging as a significant behavioral addiction pandemic to be tackled worldwide. Internet addiction can be defined as an impulse disorder. Objective of the study was to determines the level of Internet addiction in Students. To identify the behavioural and any health-related problems associated with internet addiction among students.Methods: This study was a cross sectional study carried out in 7 different engineering colleges of Jabalpur city during the period of 1st July 2016 to 30th September 2016.Results: In present study the prevalence of internet addiction was found to be 74 %. 26 % of the participants were found with no internet addictions whereas 55 % and 17.67 % of the participants were found to be mild and moderate addicted whereas only 1.33 % of the participants were severely addicted to internet addiction. Participant who has internet addiction has 84.8 % of yelling and annoying behavior while 86.5 % participants with internet addiction have secretive and defensive behavior. Association was found to be highly significant (p = <0.001). Ill effects like problem related to eye have significant effect on the participants with internet addiction i.e. 66.17 %. Association of problem related to eye problems with internet addiction was significant with the p = 0.02.Conclusions: The problem is alarming and progressing to an addictive state in the near future Interventions like setting boundaries and detecting early warning signs of underlying psychopathology at the earliest are require