Background: The Internet has become an integral part of life. India is the third largest country in the world next to china and United States in respect of the number of internet users. Adolescents usually have poorer self- control, worse self-regulation, and poorer cognition as compared to adults and are considered the most vulnerable group to the temptations of the internet. Objective of the study was to understand the patterns, preferred use of internet, prevalence Internet addiction and its effect on their mental health status among college students in Nagpur.Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out in different colleges across in the Nagpur corporation during the period Dec 2016 to May 2017. Pre-validated, pre-tested, structured questionnaire was developed. Young’s 20-item scale for Internet addiction (YIAT) was applied to qualify for the prevalence of Internet addiction. The 12-item General Health Questionnaire has excellent psychometric properties as a screening instrument for psychiatric disorders in nonclinical settings.Results: This study of college students aged 17-25 years with marginally high male representation (51.92%), identified 30.69%, 26.60% and 0.26% students with mild, moderate and severe Internet addiction respectively. Those who are having internet addiction are two times at a risk of having poor mental health (OR = 2.28, p = 0.01).Conclusions: Disproportionate Internet use is an evolving issue among college going students as our study have highlighted that excessive use of the Internet undesirably affects one’s physical and mental health and social well-being.
Background: Oral cancer is higher prevalent condition in Asian countries. In India, due to higher proportion of population consuming tobacco in either chewing or smoking and alcohol consumption. Methods: Present matched case control study was carried out in regional cancer institute in central India. The study consists of a total 124 cases and 124 controls. Cases were newly diagnosed patients of oral cancer confirmed by histopathological examination. Results: For cases, the mean age (years) was 47.62, the range being 23-83 years while that of controls was 47.89 years, the range being 24-84 years. Majority were males (83.88%). Majority of cases (79.04%) were past chewers who had OR 2.61. Maximum number of cases (19.36%) were past smokers and maximum number of controls (12.09%) were current smokers who had OR 4.54. Maximum number of cases (30.64%) were former drinker and maximum number of controls (8.87%) were current drinker who had OR 2.97. Conclusions: In summary, oral cancer occurs more commonly in middle aged males. The statistical data of this study provide strong evidence that tobacco chewing, smoking and alcohol could be in a straight line responsible for developing oral cancer in central India.
BACKGROUND In the background of high epidemiologic proportions of road traffic accidents and the fact that very few exploratory studies were reported from central India, the present study was undertaken to study distribution of non-fatal road traffic accident according to time, place and person. Aims and Objectives-To study distribution of non-fatal road traffic accident cases admitted in tertiary care hospital according to time, place and person. MATERIALS AND METHODS Study Place-Tertiary care hospital from Central India. Study Type-Cross-sectional study. Study Period-One year (May 2014 to May 2015). Distribution of study subjects according to time, place and person was recorded in the proforma. Statistical analysis was carried out with the help of software Epi Info version 7.2. Results were presented in percentages. Chi-square test was used as test of significance. RESULTS In temporal distribution, it was seen that 44% road traffic accident cases occurred in the evening and maximum road traffic accident cases occurred on weekends, i.e. on Saturdays (16.72%) and on Sundays (17.39%). 40.67% of road traffic accident cases occurred in rainy season (June to September). In zone wise distribution of accidents which occurred inside city, 36.51% were seen in north zone. It was observed that in majority of accident cases, mode of transport was motorcycle (49.33%). Males were significantly higher than females among the motorcycle occupants as compared to other modes of transport (X 2 = 6.76, DF= 1, p<0.01). CONCLUSION The present study clearly demonstrated that several factors such as rainy season, evening hours, weekends i.e. Saturday and Sunday, north zone of city was found to be more common in road traffic accidents. In majority of accident cases, mode of transport was motorcycle.
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