The pandemic has led to a major change of focus in the healthcare system. The pandemic that started in December 2019 in Wuhan rapidly became a global health crisis. Pregnant women fall under the high risk category and the infection endangers two lives. Vaccination appeared as the only hope at the peak of pandemic. Materials and Methods: 650 pregnant women at a tertiary care centre in New Delhi were interviewed objectively irrespective of gestational age and educational status. Results and Discussion: 383 women(58.9%) pregnant women were willing to get the vaccine. 267 (41.1%) were not willing to the get the vaccine. 91.5 % women were aware that covid-19 vaccine is available for pregnant women. 90.3% women knew that covid 19 infection can be dangerous for pregnant women. Only 75.7 % women thought covid 19 infection can be dangerous for new born and children. Women who were aware that the infection can be dangerous for pregnant women and newborn were more willing to get the vaccine compared to women who were not aware. Women who thought the vaccine could be harmful for the fetus were reluctant to get the vaccine. Conclusion: Increasing awareness and knowledge in the pregnant population would lead to better vaccine acceptability. Vaccination status among pregnant population is still poor and with better awareness drives we can improve the vaccination statistics. The results can be extrapolated for other health drives and health seeking behavior development.
BACKGROUND:Obesity is a complex and incompletely understood disease.It is a population problem and should be tackled as such. OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence of preobesity and obesity and nutritional profile of obese urban adult females. METHOD: A community based cross sectional study was carried out from Nov 2011 to May 2012 Total 553 adult females were enrolled. The data was analyzed by epi-info version. RESULTS: Prevalence of preobesity and obesity was found to be 17.18% and 6.5% respectively. CONCLUSION: As family is the first and most important of inculcating healthy habit and behavior, so particularly female should be made aware about causes and consequences of obesity from childhood level.
In the context of online purchasing of Grocery and other food items it was observed that the major advantage was the ability to purchase things from any location at any time with convenience and reduced use of time which made it more practical than visiting stores and very easy. Objectives:- To know the type and quantity of food purchased online and assess the effect of online food purchasing on body composition and Body Mass Index. Methodology:- The respondents being studied belonged to the age group of 25-35 years, the samples were selected by purposive random sampling. The number of participants were 100. Food frequency questionnaire was the tool used and The frequency of the food products that the participants purchase online and consume included categories such as groceries, frozen food, canned foods, ready to cook meals, packaged foods, chocolates and candies, desserts, jams and conserves, beverages, fast food. Results:- It was observed from BMI (Body Mass Index) that 23% of the participants were overweight and 51% of were Pre obese indicating that their consumption of processed energy dense food was high. It was observed that more than (50%) participants preferred to Purchase food items online on a monthly basis and (28%) preferred it on a weekly basis. Thus Indicating that the participants are used to purchasing food items online and find it more convenient Than offline shopping. When BMI was correlated with the frequency of Online purchase of food items it was not significant (p-value=0.29). Also participants mostly preferred to purchase Fast food (34%) online followed by Grocery (29%) on the other hand the least purchased food item Was frozen food indicating that the consumption of Frozen food is not much. The difference in Percentage of Body Mass Index (BMI) in relation to the purchase of groceries and other food items was not significant (p-value= 0.43). It was also noted that (41%) of the participants gained weight after purchasing food items online however there was no significant relation in the BMI and weight status of the respondents.
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