5 research outputs found
Effect of music on post-exercise recovery rate in young healthy individuals
Background: Music has been used in exercise classes for many decades. The role of music in increasing the exercise performance is well recognized but there is very little information about effect of music on post-exercise recovery time.Methods: The present study was conducted to see the effect of musical sounds on post-exercise recovery time following moderate exercise with Harvard step test in young healthy volunteers. 30 young healthy volunteers (17 males, 13 females) aged between 17 to 20 years were recruited for the study. Pulse rate, systolic BP, diastolic BP were recorded prior to exercise in lying down position. The participants were subjected to moderate exercise by Harvard step test for 3 minutes on 3 consecutive days. They were allowed to rest in silence on 1st day, rest with hearing slow music on 2nd day and rest with hearing fast music on 3rd day. During the post-exercise relaxation time PR, SBP and DBP were measured immediately and after every 1 min. until the parameters returned to resting values. Data was statistically analysed using ANOVA test and 0.05 level of significance was set prior to the study.Results: The result showed that with slow music, recovery time of pulse rate (5.2 ± 2.1), systolic blood pressure (3.9 ± 1.1) and diastolic blood pressure (3.2 ± 1.7) were significantly faster as compared to both no music and fast music.Conclusion: The study concluded that music hastens post-exercise recovery and slow music has greater relaxation effect than fast or no music.
Knowledge and practice regarding contraception and population control among higher secondary school students in Ahmedabad
Background: In India, adolescent pregnancies are very common because of early marriages, lack of knowledge of
contraception, and increase in sexual activity among adolescents, together leading to early child bearing in the absence of
adequate and effective information and education on planning and spacing children.
Objectives: Comparative measurement of knowledge regarding contraception and population control, and to determine
the need of inclusion of sex education in curriculum.
Materials and Methods: Study was carried out in randomly selected four schools. Two were of central board (private) and
two of state board (government) of Ahmedabad, India. A total of 530 apparently healthy students, 265 from each of the two
school types aged between 14 and 16 years were recruited for the study. A descriptive study, using a pretested, selfadministered
questionnaire, was carried out to assess the knowledge and practice about contraception and population control.
Result: Majority of the subjects, 205 (77.35%) of private and 199 (75.04%) of government school, stated that uncontrolled
population growth has adverse effects. Only 60% private and 52.83% government school students knew the correct legal
age of marriage (p o 0.05). All the respondents were unanimous in their desire for a gap between the first and the second
child, but private school students, significantly more (84.90%) than the government school students (71.69%), preferred
a gap of more than 2 years between the children (p o 0.05). A significantly higher proportion of central board private
school students (90.94%) than state board government school students (72.75%) knew about condoms and contraceptive
pills (p o 0.05).
Conclusion: Students showed mixed performance regarding knowledge and practice of contraception and population
control. There are gaps in knowledge that need to be addressed by including population control and sex education in the
school curriculum. Government school students are far behind regarding knowledge of contraception and population
control as compared to central board private school students
Knowledge and practice regarding contraception and population control among higher secondary school students in Ahmedabad
Abstract Background: In India, adolescent pregnancies are very common because of early marriages, lack of knowledge of contraception, and increase in sexual activity among adolescents, together leading to early child bearing in the absence of adequate and effective information and education on planning and spacing children
Tuberculosis: integrated studies for a complex disease 2050
Tuberculosis (TB) has been a disease for centuries with various challenges [1]. Like
other places where challenges and opportunities come together, TB challenges were
the inspiration for the scientific community to mobilize different groups for the
purpose of interest. For example, with the emergence of drug resistance, there has
been a huge volume of research on the discovery of new medicines and drug
delivery methods and the repurposing of old drugs [2, 3]. Moreover, to enhance the
capacity to detect TB cases, studies have sought diagnostics and biomarkers, with
much hope recently expressed in the direction of point-of-care tests [4].
Despite all such efforts as being highlighted in 50 Chapters of this volume, we
are still writing about TB and thinking about how to fight this old disease–implying
that the problem of TB might be complex, so calling the need for an integrated
science to deal with multiple dimensions in a simultaneous and effective manner.
We are not the first one; there have been proposed integrated platform for TB
research, integrated prevention services, integrated models for drug screening,
integrated imaging protocol, integrated understanding of the disease pathogenesis,
integrated control models, integrated mapping of the genome of the pathogen, etc.
[5–12], to name some.
These integrated jobs date back decades ago. So, a question arises: why is there a
disease named TB yet? It might be due to the fact that this integration has happened
to a scale that is not global, and so TB remains to be a problem, especially in
resource-limited settings.
Hope Tuberculosis: Integrated Studies for a Complex Disease helps to globalize
the integrated science of TB.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio