A community based cross-sectional study was carried out in a selected village of Dhamrai, Dhaka with a sample size of 191 to explore the status of community awareness regarding psychological violence against women (PVAW) among respondents > 18 years of age with a semi-structured questionnaire employing purposive sampling method; data was collected by face to face interview. Female respondent were higher (51.8%) in number. This study found that 26.2% and 29.3% respondents were in the age group between 28-37 years and 38-47 years respectively (Mean ±SD = 37.35 ±11.95 years). Most of the respondents were married (86.4%); mean duration of marriage was 18.41 ±10.438 years. The mean monthly family income was 21989.53 ±12391.419 Tk, This study found that nuclear family (58.1%) was higher. The findings of the current study shows that 57.6% respondents have average (30 % to < 60%) knowledge regarding psychological violence. Association between the psychological violence with educational status of the respondents was statistically significant. (p = .018), also there is statistical significant association between psychological violence with family income of the respondents. (p = .018) and psychological violence with the type of family of the respondents. (p = .033). Violence against women is a burning public health issue and a serious threat to human rights. Intervention like social awareness programmes can be arranged to improve the knowledge and awareness of the community people.
In the recent years dengue fever has become global public health concern as there has a dramatic increase of cases of dengue in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, predominantly in urban and rural areas. A community based cross sectional study was conducted among purposively selected 347 participants to ascertain the knowledge, awareness and practices on dengue fever in rural (n=196) and urban (n=151) communities of the Sylhet division, Bangladesh. Mosquito bite as mode of spread (61.22%, 82.12%), Aedes mosquito as the vector (40.83%, 64.52%), day as biting time (40.83%, 64.52%), stagnant water as breeding place (58.16%, 74.83%) and removal of water stagnation as eliminations of breeding place (40.31%, 64.90%) was mainly reported by study participants respectively in rural and urban communities. Fever (53.7%, 68.27%) was identified as a leading symptom of dengue fever. Using of bed nets (61.73%) was a conjoint recognition in rural whereas window screen (40.40%) in urban as effective measures for controlling mosquito bite. Besides preventive measures like use of bed nets (47.96%, 27.81%), window screen (7.14%, 48.34%) and for control measures removal of water stagnation (31.12%, 58.94%) was mostly utilized method in both settings. The awareness on dengue fever found good in both rural and urban communities but knowledge and preventive practices were considerably low which is predominant in rural. It could be improved through increase community participation and educational campaigns.
Tribal Peoples are always facing a wide range of socio-economic variance and are at uneven risk in public health emergencies even more vulnerable during this covid 19 pandemic worldwide. With a view to find out the COVID-19 infections and fatality rate among the different ethnic groups of peoples of the Bandarban Hill District (BHD), Bangladesh the current study was conducted. A hospital based cross-sectional study was carried out among purposively selected 989 ethnic inhabitants, suspected of the COVID-19 and took the diagnostic rRT-PCR test in different government hospital of Bandarban district of Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh during May to July, 2020. The mean age of the respondent was 35.35±14.33 years where majority were adults and belongs to age group 18-55 years. Majority of the suspected cases were male (60%) in relation to their counterpart. Among the suspected tribal people more than half (56%) were Marma in origin followed by Bawm (9.8%) and Tonchongya (9.6%) and around three-fifth (59.6%) were habitants of Bandarban Sadar. In laboratory rRT-PCR test results, 15.6% cases were found positive among the suspected cases tested for with 0.65% case fatality rate. The association between COVID-19 infection with the residing place of the respondents was found statistically significant (p=0.001). Though the COVID-19 infection among the tribal is lower than the national population, still the prevailing estimate is alarming and ask for further evaluation and community based awareness program and integrated health services need to recast to protect the ethnic group of people of the BHD, Bangladesh.
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