Introduction: Extracurricular activities are part and parcel of modern day’s academic curriculum. It provides them a positive character building opportunity and teaches ways to develop discipline, commitment, tenacity, self control and a healthy respect for college authority. Objectives: To find out the relation between student’s participation in extracurricular activities in college campus and academic performance. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted at Armed Forces Medical College, Dhaka from February 2015 to October 2015. A total of 475 students belonged to four different phase groups were selected as research sample. The dependant variable was fixed at overall improvement in examination results where as independent variables were gender, participation and non participation in all extra academic activities performed at college campus. Research Data were collected from records of training section of the college. Data was analyzed in terms of percentage and Pearson Chi-Square test using SPSS-20 version of software. Results: Total participant students were 475 and Male female student ratio was 168(35.36%): 307 (64.64%). In outdoor games and sports, males showed better participation than female 121(72.02%): 89(28.99%). But the number of participating female increased in case of indoor games {male 115(68.45%): female 205(66.77%)}. Considering photography club participation male showed better response {male 76(45.23%): female 41(13.35%)}. In case of cultural and debate club activities females showed greater response {female 226(73.61%): male 106(63.09%)}. In medical carnival club activities female: male score was almost similar {Female 207(67.43%): male 112(66.66%)}. The class attendance (more than 75%) of participating students {male 106(94.64%) and female 208 (92.04%)) were much better than non participating students. Regarding result of term finals all the participants showed better academic performance {male 87(77.68%) and female 187 (82.74%)}. In Professional MBBS examinations participant 103 (91.96%) male and 201 (88.94%) female passed at one chance while percentage of pass was less in non participant students {31 (55.35%) male and 44 (57.14%) female}. Pearson Chi-Square test result showed significance in all the above aspects. Conclusion: Students participating in extracurricular activities generally benefit from having better examination results, higher self concept, higher standardized test scores and educational attainment. Students often learned skills such as teamwork and leadership from college club activities while decreasing the likelihood of different problem behaviors. Journal of Armed Forces Medical College Bangladesh Vol.11(2) 2015: 41-46
Introduction: Homicide is a legal term for any killing of a human being as a result of the conduct of another. There has been a global increase in homicide and it causes over 500,000 deaths per year worldwide. Throughout the world deaths due to firearm weapons have been increased tremendously. Depending on the circumstances of the death, homicides can be divided into murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, killing in war, euthanasia and execution.Objectives: To find out socio-demographic features of homicidal deaths in some part of Dhaka city.Materials and Methods: A record based cross-sectional study includes 506 cases of homicide out of the total of 3005 medico-legal autopsies conducted at Forensic Medicine Department of Dhaka Medical College during the year of March 2006 to February 2007. Data were collected using a pre-designed schedule from Post mortem registers and reports. The cases have been labeled as homicide on the basis of autopsy and police inquest report. All the data were collected in a predefined data collection sheet and necessary statistical analyses were performed by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) software.Results: A total number of 3005 medico-legal autopsies were conducted, of them 1594 (53.04%) cases were accidents, 786 (26.15%) cases were suicide, 506 (16.84%) cases were homicide, undetermined cases were 88 (2.93%) and 31 (1.04%) cases were natural deaths. Of them 190 (37.55%) were caused by firearms. Other methods used for homicide were 97 (19.17%) cases by blunt weapons, 82 (16.21%) by sharp cutting weapons, 49 (9.68%) by stab injuries. Most of the victims 188 (37.15) were in the age group of 21-30 years followed by 110 (21.74%) in the age group of 31-40 years. In 447 (88.33%) cases the victims were male and 480 (94.86%) were Muslims.Conclusion: Homicide is a relatively rare offence than accidents or suicides but it is one of the most notifiable crimes in country as they are widely publicized by the media due to their severity and visibility. Homicidal deaths, mostly due to fire arms have increased substantially in the last decade. Strict measures should be taken to monitor and control the possession of illegal fire arms.Journal of Armed Forces Medical College Bangladesh Vol.11(1) 2015: 30-33
Introduction: Mental health is essentially as important as the physical health required of an individual to maintain. There are many factors that seem to play a role in the genesis of mental illness.Objective: This study was conducted among the mentally ill patients admitted to four hospitals of Dhaka city with a view to find out their socio demographic characteristics of mental illness.Materials and Methods: It was a descriptive type of cross sectional study. A total number of 81 patients and their near relatives were interviewed at four medical institutions through a structured questionnaire. A checklist was used for clinical diagnosis of the patients. A master sheet was prepared followed by questionnaire plotting all the information. Then data were analyzed according to objectives and necessary tables were prepared accordingly by case appropriate variables of the study using Microsoft office program.Results: The study results showed that 81.49% patients were male and 18.51% patients were female. Of the total patients 71.61% were found in the age group of unto 30 years. Maximum patients (61.73%) were found within the monthly family income of BDT 2500/- to 4500/- only. 53.03% of patients were married followed by 39.51% of unmarried. The study revealed that 58.02% patients hailed from urban area. 61.73% patients were educated up to secondary level and only 8.64% patients were illiterate. Regarding occupation 27.17% patients were cultivator and 16.05% were students. The study reflected that 48.15% patients were smokers and very few (6.17%) were drug drug addicts. 61.73% patients were living in joint families.50.62% patients did not receive treatment prior to admission. Of the total 49.38% treated cases (prior to admission), 25% cases were treated from the homeopath and only 25% were consulted with specialist.Conclusion: The lower and middle socio economic group and literate group from urban areas living in joint family suffered more from mental illness. There is need for appropriate policy to address the problems of families with mentally ill patients at the family and community levels.Journal of Armed Forces Medical College Bangladesh Vol.10(2) 2014
Introduction: There are two manners of death: Naturalwhere death is entirely caused by disease or ageing process, where poison or trauma does not take part to cause it and Unnatural- where death is sudden, suspicious, unexpected, litigious, unexplained and unattended either due to poison or trauma. Accident, homicide and suicide are the three unnatural manners of death. Death due to intentional injuries such as homicide or suicide and unintentional injuries of accidental manner, such as in transportation injury or industrial or machinery mishaps constitute unnatural deaths. Suicidal deaths are the acts or an instance of taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally especially by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind. Objective: To ascertain the medico-legal issues and sociodemographic profile of suicidal death cases occuerd in Dhaka City. Materials and Methods: A record based cross sectional study of postmortems was performed at the mortuary of the Forensic Medicine Department of Dhaka Medical College (DMC) from August 2009 to July 2010. A total of 3,337 cases brought to DMC mortuary from the south-eastern part of Dhaka district during this period were included in this study and thereafter 827 suicidal deaths were considered for this study. Results: A total of 3,337 unnatural deaths (accidents, suicide and homicide) were reported at the mortuary of the Forensic Medicine Department of Dhaka Medical College (DMC) during the period of August 2009 to July 2010. This study revealed that 827(24.78%) individual committed suicide out of 3337 cases. There was a predominance of Muslims 779(94.19%), males 481(58.16%) over females 346(41.84%) in committing suicide. Majority of the victims belonged to the age group of 21-30 years in both sexes. Out of these suicidal cases, 318(38.45%) victims committed suicide by hanging. The other methods used for suicide were Organophosphorus compound poisoning (OPC) by 238(28.79%) victims, poisoning from other substances like Opiates, Ethanol, Methanol, Rodenticide, Barbiturate etc by 267 (32.28%); 3(0.36%) cases were identified as burn and 1 (0.12%) by firearm. Conclusion: Suicide is the second most common manner of unnatural death flanked by accident and homicide. Suicide is one of the most multifaceted and media-sensitive phenomena. Suicide by hanging is an increasingly common method. All stakeholders such as government along with private agencies, non-government organizations, public health departments, social workers, community, religious leaders and media can take a leading step to prevent suicide Journal of Armed Forces Medical College Bangladesh Vol.13(1) 2017: 33-36
Introduction: It is a pigmentation disorder in which melanocytes (the cells that make pigment) in the skin are destroyed. As a result, white patches appear in the skin in different parts of the body. Objective: The objective of this study is to see the efficacy of systemic PUVA in the treatment of vitiligo patient. Methods: This is an prospective longitudinal interventional study, carried out in the depigmented area was assessed according to the department of Dermatology and Venereology, Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka in between the duration of April 2010 to March 2011. Total 25 vitiligo patients based on inclusion criteria like patient with vitiligo affecting more than 5% body surface area, patient having ivory- white fluorescence on Woods lamp, patient who was above 15 years of age, patient who had given written consent, patient was not taken any previous treatment etc. Results: This study showed the therapeutic response of study group after 04 weeks of therapy, 05 (20%) patients responsed Fair, 15 (60%) patients responsed Poor and no responsed by 05 (20%) patients. Therapeutic response of study group after 08 weeks of therapy showed that 15 (60%) patients responsed Fair and 10 (40%) patients responsed Poor. It was observed after 12 weeks of therapy that 13 (52%) patients responsed Poor followed by 10 (40%) patients responsed Fair and 02 (08%) patients responsed well. 29 JAFMC Bangladesh. Vol 10, No 1 (June) 2014 Therapeutic response of study group after 16 weeks of therapy was 15 (60%) patients responsed Fair, followed by 06 (24%) patients responsed Poor and 04 (16%) patients responsed Good. It was showed that after 20 weeks of therapy 13 (52%) patients responsed Fair, followed by 08 (32%) patients responsed Good, 03 (12%) patients responsed Poor and 01 (04%) patients responsed Excellent. It was observed that after 24 weeks of therapy 12 (48%) patients responsed Good, followed by 08 (32%) patients responsed Fair, 03 (12%) patients responsed Poor and 02 (08%) patients responsed Excellent. Conclusion: Systemic PUVA for the repigmentation of vitiligo seems to be effective. Study needs large number of patients for longer period of duration for confirmation of results. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jafmc.v10i1.22900 Journal of Armed Forces Medical College Bangladesh Vol.10(1) 2014
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