Background: Adolescent girls’ understanding of menstruation is characterized by poor knowledge and erroneous beliefs about menstruation. This study aims to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice regarding menstrual hygiene among adolescent schoolgirls and to assess any factors associated with menstrual hygiene.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from May 2017 to April 2019 among 1963 school girls of class 8 to 12 standards in Imphal-East District, Manipur. From the list of schools in the district, schools were selected randomly by lottery method and all eligible girls in the selected schools were included. A predesigned self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Data were analyzed using SPSS IBM Statistics version 21. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis were performed to test for association. A p value<0.05 was taken as statistically significant.Results: The mean (±SD) age was 15.45 (±1.59) years. More than half (51.3%) of the respondents had good knowledge regarding menstruation. Majority (60.2%) of the respondents have good attitude regarding menstruation. Studying in higher class AOR (95% CI) of 1.399 (1.157-1.675), Christian by religion AOR (95% CI) of 1.640 (1.038-2.591), higher educational level of father AOR (95% CI) 4.492 (1.492-13.52), studying in private schools AOR (95% CI) of 1.370 (1.031-1.172) and belonging to rural community AOR (95% CI) 1.266 (1.025-1.500) were significantly more likely to have good knowledge about menstruation.Conclusions: More than half of the respondents had good knowledge and three-fifth of them had good attitude. Health education on menstruation and menstrual hygiene should be incorporated early enough in the school curriculum to prepare girls for menstruation.

AIMS:To find out the prevalence, determinants and awareness regarding hypertension. SETTING AND DESIGN: Community based cross-sectional study conducted in Saikot PHC area under Churachandpur district of Manipur. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Structured interview schedule was administered to 504 adults selected by multistage sampling during 1 st October 2005 to 30 th September 2006. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: SPSS 11.5 was used for data entry and analysis, descriptive statistics, χ 2 test, student -t test, binary logistic regression analysis etc. were used for presenting data and p ≤ 0.05 was considered significant. RESULTS: Prevalence of hypertension and pre hypertension were 25% and 14.3% respectively and 11.5% subjects had optimum BP. Awareness regarding hypertension was 7.7%.Prevalence of hypertension was significantly higher among older subjects (p = 0.000), females (p = 0.01), Meitei (p = 0.000), obese subjects (p = 0.003), sedentary workers (p = 0.000), ex-smokers (p = 0.000), regular BP checkers (p = 0.01) and subjects, who used to consume chicken and fish in more number of days per week (p = 0.000). Age (OR = 1.042, 95% CI = 1.027 -1.056, p = 0.000), BMI (OR = 1.132, 95% CI = 1.050 -1.220, p = 0.001), diet (OR = 7.381, 95% CI = 1.200 -45.406, p = 0.031) etc. were significant determinants of hypertension. Very few subjects were aware about the risk factors of hypertension. Knowledge regarding the preventability and controllability of hypertension was also poor. CONCLUSIONS: Prevalence of hypertension was higher and knowledge regarding hypertension was poorer than other areas of India, so behaviour change communication for promotion of healthy lifestyle in order to prevent hypertension in this community is needed.

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Background: Elderly in India suffers from both communicable and non-communicable diseases, also functional independence reduces due to physiological changes. This study aims to determine the pattern of morbidity, functional ability in activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) and to assess any factors associated with ADL.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from May 2017 to April 2019 among 420 elderly aged 60 years and above residing in rural areas of Wangoi in Manipur. Probability proportional to size (PPS) sampling method was used to select 6 villages out of 28 villages. A pre-tested interview schedule was used as study tool. Data were analysed using SPSS IBM statistics version 21 using mean, SD, proportion, chi-squared (χ²) test, univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis were performed taking p-value<0.05 as statistically significant.Results: Some form of morbidity was reported by 49.1% of the respondents. The prevalence of dependent according to ADL was 8.1%. According to IADL score, 97.6% female and 46% male have limitation. Elder age group, female gender, living without spouse, illiterate were significantly associated with dependency according to ADL. In adjusted analysis, every unit increased in age, risk of being dependent increases significantly by 10% [AOR=1.10 (1.04-1.16)].Conclusions: Almost half of respondents had some form of morbidity. Only a few (4.5%) were dependent according to ADL. A more comprehensive study covering different communities using various laboratory investigations can be conducted in Manipur.

Background: For the state of Manipur, the evaluated coverage among children as per NFHS-2, NFHS-3 and NFHS-4 were 42.3%, 46.8% and 65.9% respectively. But with the introduction of Mission Indradhanush in December 2014 which aimed in achieving the full immunization coverage to all eligible children over the next five years through special catch-up drives might have helped in improving the coverage. Hence, some improvement is expected by now. To ascertain the current status, the study was taken up. The current study was conducted to evaluate the primary vaccination coverage among children aged 12-23 months. The study also aimed to determine any association between important background characteristics with the vaccination status.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Imphal East District, Manipur during May 2017 to April 2020 among mothers having 12-23 months old children. 1,309 eligible study-women were selected by using multi-stage sampling technique. Data on their background characteristics, immunization status of the children and vaccination-related details were collected by using a pre-tested interview schedule.Results: The full immunization rate among children was found to be 93%. There was significant association between the immunization status and important background characteristics like place of delivery, order of birth, family income and mother’s educational status.Conclusions: Present study indicated that the full immunization coverage of the district was higher than the national and regional coverage findings. Place of delivery, order of birth, family income and mothers’ low educational status were found to be significantly associated with full immunization coverage.