The occupational hazards of computer use are much more serious and disabling than any other occupation. Health problems in computer users appear to be interrelated and they are musculoskeletal, visual, stress and depression related. 1 OBJECTIVES: 1) To find the prevalence of depression among computer engineering students and teaching staff in Gulbarga city. 2) To suggest remedial measures for prevention of depression among study subjects. METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted among all 319 third year computer engineering students and 79 teaching staff in all 4 Engineering colleges of Gulbarga city for 1year from January 2011 to December 2011. The study subjects were interviewed using pre-designed and pretested proforma including Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale. RESULTS: In our study majority (75.37%) of study subjects belonged to 20-22 years age studying B.E Computer science and 274(68.84%) were females and 124(31.15%) were males. Amongst study subjects mild depression were more common who works on computer for 6-9hr for more than 9years 7(1.75%). CONCLUSION: In our study mild depression is more common in students working on computer for 6-9hr for more than 9years which accumulate over a period of time resulting in severe depression affecting physical and mental health.
Background: The first few years of life is the most crucial period of life as this age is known for accelerated growth and development. Various studies in India have shown that respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections are the leading cause of morbidity in infants. These infectious diseases are affected by several sociodemographic factors such as birth weight, gestational age, birth order, immunization status, day care attendance and socio-economic status of the family.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in the urban field practice area of department of community medicine MRMC, Kalaburagi from June 2016-October 2016. House to house survey using pre-structured and pretested questionnaire method was done.Results: Out of 104 infants in the present study it was found that majority 53% were females and 49% were males. Majority 61.5% of the infants belonged to low socioeconomic class and majority 54.8% of them were from nuclear families, most 62.5% of the infants had 1-2 siblings in the family and 34.6% had no siblings, 51% of the mothers were illiterate and majority 54.8% of the fathers were literate. Among all the morbidities majority 36.50% had fever. No significant association was found between various social factors.Conclusions: Though no significant association was found between morbidity and socio-demographic factors, but the socio demographic factors which showed more prevalence of morbidity among infants were females, number of siblings in the family and lower socio economic class. As these infants are the future citizens of the country hence their health should be the utmost priority for us and their health needs should be properly addressed.
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