The quality of life or radiologic technology students of DLSMHSI during home-based alternative learning modalities

This study was conducted to assess the quality of life of first to third-year radiologic technology students of De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute during home-based alternative learning modalities. This study used a descriptive research design, and an adopted questionnaire. Frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, median, mean rank, MannWhitney U test, and Kruskal-Wallis H test were the statistical tools used in the study. Most respondents are female, and most are third-year students. Most respondents perceived their quality of life as good, and most were satisfied with their general health. This is supported by their response on their quality of life per the WHOQOL-BREF domain, having a high social and environmental domain score and a moderate physical and psychological domain score. There is no significant difference in the perceived overall quality of life of the respondents when grouped according to sex and year level. Moreover, there is no significant difference in the general health satisfaction of the respondents. For the quality of life per the WHOQOL-BREF domain, the physical, psychological, and environmental domains did not significantly vary when grouped according to sex and year level. On the other hand, there is a significant difference found in the quality of life per social domain of the respondents when grouped according to sex and year level. When grouped according to sex, it is shown that female respondents have a better social domain than male respondents’ while second-year respondents have a better social domain than first-year respondents

A comparative study of the antibacterial properties of the different parts of Garcinia mangostana (Mangosteen) fruit extracts against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli using the maceration method

The study followed a Randomized Control Trial research design with five (5) treatments, the first two being the positive and negative control treatments and the remaining three treatments for each mangosteen fruit extract (pericarp, pulp, and seed). The positive control group consists of an antibiotic (1 μg Oxacillin for Staphylococcus aureus and 30 μg Amikacin for E.coli) while the negative control group consists of a blank sample-free disc. The plant extraction method utilized was maceration and the antimicrobial assay used in the study is the disc diffusion method. One-way ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) and Multiple Comparisons (Tukey/Post Hoc Test) was used in order to determine the significant difference among the treatments. Results of the test had revealed that the extracts had shown mild inhibitory activity against Staphylococcus aureus, with the mangosteen pericarp extract yielding the largest zone of inhibition, and very mild inhibitory activity against Escherichia coli, with all of the extracts exhibiting the same measurements of the zones of inhibition. Further analysis of the data showed that upon comparison, there is a significant difference between the measurements of the zones of inhibition exhibited by all of the treatments for both bacteria