Rational use of blood and blood components in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Crossectional study.

Abstract: Introduction: Blood transfusion is a life saving process and a complex phenomenon. Judicial use of blood and its components is the need of the hour. Objectives: The present study was planned with the objective to assess the appropriateness of blood transfusions in patients admitted in the hospital as per WHO guidelines. Materials and Methods: A crossectional study was conducted at tertiary care hospital for a period of one and a half years. Records of patients from blood bank were evaluated to collect data. MS Excel was used to enter the data and IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows (version 20.0) was used to analyse the data. Results: Overall prevalence rate of appropriate use of blood component is 62.63%. Conclusions: Retrospective audits are effective tool to increase rational use of blood by identifying areas requiring intervention to change transfusion practic

Domestic violence against women: a crossectional study in rural area of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India

Background: Domestic violence against women is a matter of serious public health concern in most of the communities and culture. In India, the problem has been highlighted after legislation against domestic violence in 2005, popularly known as the protection of women from domestic violence act. Main objectives of the study were to assess the prevalence of domestic violence against women, to study the sociodemographic factors in females suffering from domestic violence and to identify causes of domestic violence in them.Methods: A crossectional study was carried in the field practice area of rural health training centre of Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Memorial Medical College, Nerpinglai in Amravati district of Maharashtra state for a period of 3 months. Simple random sampling method was used for the selection of samples. The study participants were interviewed using a predesigned pretested questionnaire. Proportion, Chi square test were calculated for the analysis of the study.Results: Out of 400 study participants interviewed, 161 (40.25%) reported some type of violence i.e. either in the form of physical, emotional or sexual violence in their life time or in recent past. The most common type of violence reported was physical violence. The most common cause of domestic violence reported in our study was financial problems followed by influence under alcohol.  Conclusions: The prevalence of domestic violence was 40.25% which is still high and necessary measures should be taken to strengthen the laws for women and to empower them

Internet Addiction Amongst Students of a Medical College in Central India: A Cross-Sectional Study

Internet addiction is an upcoming problem that has been considered as an important public health problem and the position of India comes after China, US and Japan in terms of highest number of internet users. To assess the usage of internet among students of Medical college and to classify levels of internet addiction. A questionnaire based crosssectional study was planned. Students of 1st year, 3rd year and interns were selected to participate in study. Young’s Addiction Test was used as a tool to assess and classify internet addiction. Data was entered and analysed in Epiinfo7. 49.75% (199) students has mean score between 50-79 which indicates moderate dependence on internet whereas 36.50 (146) students has mean score of 31-49 and 3.75% (15) students show mean score between 81-100 which indicates mild and severe dependency on internet respectively. 10% (40) students has mean score between 0-30 which indicates normal internet usage. the internet usage among medical students is on rise which should be taken care of with care and special program should be taken to create awareness amongst students