Background: Rabies being 100% fatal disease, every individual is vulnerable to animal bite irrespective of age, sex and socio-economic status. Children are at greater risk. Though most of the bites are by pet animal and provoked, they are more severe, usually on proximal part of the body including face, neck and scalp and thus lifethreatening. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional hospital based study in the anti-rabies vaccination (ARV) clinic from November to April 2013. Every new child below 15 years attending the out-patient department was interviewed along with his parents for demographic data, details of animal bite and treatment received and also myths following animal bite after taking an informed consent using a pre-designed proforma. The results were analyzed by proportion and percentages. Results: Prevalence of animal bite in children was found to be 32.98%. It was more in the age group of 5-10 years and rural children. Nearly 23.96% of children were having lacerated wound and 11.75% were having injury on head and face. About 31.12% of the children reported late by 24 h. Local cleaning of wound was not satisfactory in 66.82% of the children. ARV schedule was not completed by 8.99% of the children while anti-rabies serum was not received by 86.16% of children. Myths regarding restrictions of milk and rice were prevalent in 94.56% population. After counseling also 44.67% were reluctant to the advice. Conclusion: About one-third of cases being related to children, prevention and control strategies are needed to reduce it.
Introduction: The health hazard of glass factory has been enlisted in ILO encyclopedia. Morbid conditions in glass factory workers are injuries, heat exhaustion, respiratory morbidity, ophthalmic morbidity, nephrolithiasis etc. Objective: To estimate the prevalence of morbidity in the glass factory workers and compare it with comparison group. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study with comparison group, which was matched for age, sex and socioeconomic status, unexposed to similar working environment from adjacent area. The Glass Factory is situated at Kamptee Road, Nagpur. 263 workers were studied along with 263 comparison group. Interview technique, general observation was used for data collection by using Pre-designed Proforma. Sampling design was Convenience sampling Technique. Statistical analysis was done with Epi Info 2002. Results: Total morbidities were 442 and 153 in the workers and in the comparison group respectively. Mean no. of morbidity in the worker was 1.7 with SD 0.94 and in the comparison group it was 0.6 with SD 0.83. The difference was statistically significant [Z=13.76, p<0.01, highly significant]. Of the total morbidities i.e. 442 in workers, injury constituted 251 (56.9%). Incised injury 156 (59.3%) in the workers and 32 (12.2%) in the comparison group. Conclusion: Prevalence of injury and effect of environment in the workers of Glass Factory was more than subjects in comparison group.
Introduction: Job stress plays an important role in the maintenance of organizational performance. A key aspect of job stress is increased workload, role conflict, poor job control, lack of support from coworkers and interpersonal conflict. Most studies in the field of job stress have focused on private sectors. The objective of this study was to assess the job stress among non-teaching staff at government teaching hospital.
Methods: The present cross-sectional study was carried out in a government teaching hospital in central India between Jan 2020 to March 2020 among 90 participants purposively chosen for the study. New Job Stress Scale was used to assess the extent of stress among the participants. Approval from Institutional Ethical Committee was obtained before commencing the study. Data was analyzed by SPSS version 20 for percentages, mean and standard deviation.
Results: A moderate level of stress affects 47.78 percent of participants. The present study found that most problematic dimensions of job stress variables were dimension of role conflict with as many as 51% of participants had experience role expectation conflict.
Conclusion: We can infer from this finding that we need to have formal job description written for their non-teaching staff so that their role should be clear and unambiguous.
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