Background: Cancers are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity due to non-communicable diseases second only to diabetes. Cervical cancer is the second most important cancer in women. In India nearly 75,000 women die of cervical cancer every year. In Tamil Nadu, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer to affect women especially in the rural areas. Aims of the study were to study about the level of awareness on cervical cancer and prevalence of pathological leucorrhoea among women residing in rural Chennai.Methods: This cross sectional study was carried out among randomly selected 295 females aged 15 years and above residing at Alamadhi village and nearby villages in Chennai from March 2016 to September 2016. Pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data.Results: Among the participants most of the women (55.6%) were belonged to 15-30 years age group. Of all the participants involved in the study about 66.8% (197/295) had No awareness on cervical cancer and among the rest, 27.6% (27/98) had good knowledge and 72.4% (71/98) had inadequate knowledge on cervical cancer. Prevalence of Pathological leucorrhoea is 27.5%.Conclusions: Though cervical cancer is the leading cancer among women, our study shows a large percentage of rural women are completely ignorant about this disease which when detected in early stages is completely curable. Hence, extensive health education to the public is needed to improve their knowledge with an emphasis on the fact that periodic screening is the new standard in prevention of cervical cancer.
In the advancing world, it is very crucial to protect our environment. Many incidents of man-made and natural disasters were happening around the world. Forest fires are one such catastrophe for environment. Once the fire inside deep forest starts, it burns and destroys everything and spreads everywhere within the forest. Such forest fires disasters should be curbed in order to protect fauna and flora habitats in the forest. The objective of this work is to design and implement an IoT based system which is self-sustaining and would predict and detect the forest fires and sends the exact location to concerned officials which would help firefighting personnel to extinguish the fire in the location where it starts slowly.
A 22 years old primi-gravida was diagnosed to have a 6.3×5×5.37 cm hemorrhagic gonadal cyst in fetus at 38 weeks of gestation by growth scan, on follow-up. At term gestation, she delivered a female baby by vacuum assisted vaginal delivery, weighed 2.86 kg, no other anomalies. X-ray done at 1st hour of life showed mass on the right side. USG abdomen done showed an intraperitoneal cystic lesion (5.7×3.9×6.3 cm) in right lumbar quadrant of abdomen and pediatric surgeon was consulted. Baby taken for diagnostic laparoscopy on second day of life. Findings were right large ovarian cyst with torsion with adhesions to small bowel. 75 ml of hemorrhagic fluid drained and ovarian cystectomy done, sample sent for histopathological examination, turned out to be a simple cyst. Baby discharged on day 7 of life (POD-5), hemodynamically stable and on direct breast feeding, tolerated well.
A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge and attitude regarding breast feeding and weaning practices among post-natal mothers in channasandra urban, Bangalore city. The Research approach adopted for this study is evaluative Approach. The research design adopted for the study was quasi experimental, one group pre-test and post-test design was applied. The non-probability convenient cluster sampling was used to select the sample for the study. The sample consists of the 40 post-natal mothers who are in channasandra urban area in Bangalore city. Karnataka. The instrument used for the data collection was self-administered questionnaire. Analysis result showed that overall knowledge pre-test mean was 24.65, mean% 62.20% with SD 4.60518. And post-test knowledge mean was 30.175, and mean% 77.37% with SD 05.13853. An overall attitude pre-test mean was 10.575, mean% 66.09% with SD 2.06171.and post-test attitude mean12.625, mean% 78.90% with SD2.30593. So the knowledge and attitude score of 40 postnatal mothers regarding breast feeding and weaning practices had an enhancement of knowledge score observed is 14.17% and enhancement of attitude score as observed 12.18%. Since the post-test value was more than the pre0test, the STP was effective. The comparison of pre-test and post-test knowledge of postnatal mothers regarding breast feeding and weaning reveals that the overall knowledge pre-test mean 24.65 with SD 4.60518 and post0test mean 30.175 with SD 5.13853. The paired “t” test value 6.485988 which is higher than the table value, which is highly significant at 0.05 levels. So it indicates the STP was effective. The variables between knowledge mean 24.65 with SD 4.60518 in pre-test. And attitude mean 10.575 with SD 2.06171, the “r” value of knowledge and attitude was r-0.0244, a positive correlation which shows the study is significant. There was significant association between pre-test level of knowledge with selected demographic variables such as Age 10.719, df=4 S*and post-test knowledge Age 8.697 df=2 S*, mother’s education 13.561 df= 4 S*, father’s occupation 9.061 df=3 S*, sources of information 10.239 df=3 S*. Since the obtained value is more than the table value at 0.05 level of significance. So the results shows there is a significant association between pretest and post test knowledge score with their selected demographic variables so H3 Hypothesis is accepted. The findings of the study recommended the further interventional approach regarding knowledge and attitude on breast feeding and weaning practices among post-natal mothers is required. The present study was proved the standard teaching program was effective in increasing the knowledge and attitude of breast feeding and weaning practices among post-natal mothers.
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