Background: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is known to affect a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations associated with it are significant and include reproductive dysfunction. Many forms of physiotherapeutic interventions have been tried and tested to alleviate the symptoms. Currently, there are no studies that show a significant effect of resistance exercise and lifestyle modification as a combination to create an impact on the symptoms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Purpose of the study: To study whether resistance exercises can alleviate the symptoms of PCOS in women of age 18-40 and compare the effectiveness of resistance exercise training in alleviating symptoms of PCOS over aerobic training and lifestyle modification. Study design: Randomized Controlled Trial Method: 78 individuals, aged 18-40, medically diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome were included in the study based on inclusion criteria with a randomized sampling technique. Women were randomly assigned into two groups. Group A (aerobic training and lifestyle modification) and Group B (resistance training). They all were given 4 weeks of treatment. Outcome measures included PCOSQ. Results: 78 patients were included. 39 patients to lifestyle modification and 39 patients to resistance training. At the end of 4 weeks, individuals of Group A and Group B had no significant difference in all together symptoms but weight and BMI were better managed in the group with Resistance training. Conclusion: The present study concludes that both the treatment groups had equal effectiveness in individuals with polycystic ovarian syndrome. However, the Body Mass Index and menstrual regularity were found to have a more significant positive effect in individuals with polycystic ovarian syndrome than in the group with aerobic exercise and lifestyle modification. Key words: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Body mass index, Aerobic exercises, Lifestyle modification, Resistance training
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic forced educational institutions across the world to shut down their campuses adhering to the lockdown protocols. As a result, higher educational institutions seek to deliver education through online platforms. This sudden shift created a huge impact on students learning capabilities.Methods: We conducted an online cross-sectional survey to assess the college student’s perspective about the online learning and also the most common problems faced in this online learning. A 17 item Google form questionnaire was structured by the authors. We received responses 1834 students from different higher educational institutions across India.Results: The results revealed that 71.7% of students rated the pandemic online learning below moderate on a 5-point scale. The students felt that they learn better in offline classrooms (78.9%) and reported few technical issues which hinder their learning capacity. The students appreciated the flexibility of learning from home, availability of more personal space, accessibility of abundant online learning resources, and wide range of online learning platforms in this online learning. However, most of the students felt that online learning is stressful and affects their mental health in particular.Conclusions: The study reveals the importance of online education in the near future. As we scale up to the future, this survey findings warrant a prompt action to improve digital infrastructure to resolve the technical issues, reduce cost involvement, well-structured training to improve pedagogical skills and technical skills of the faculty members.
PCOS is Considered composite disease with wide range of manifestations which affect Quality of life of females, there are various questionnaires to Assess quality of life but mPCOSQ is more valid and reliable tool, but some females in our region don’t understand English language for assessment of their quality of life there was need of translation and validation of mPCOSQ in Marathi. A Cross sectional study conducted on 78 women speaking Marathi language. Participants included in study with mean Age 22.9±4.6 and BMI 24.7 ± 2.7 respectively most of them diagnosed with PCOS for ≥ 1 year. All experts rated translated items of the mPCOSQ as clinically relevant with comments on few items that were modified the Content validity index (CVI) for MARmPCOSQ was 0.9. The internal consistency for reliability, the alpha coefficient was 0.92 indicating good reliability. The interclass co-relation Coefficient for each item were also acceptable, ranging from 0.921 to 0.978 with p value < 0.001. which shows that the scale has good Reliability. Key words: PCOS, Marathi Translated PCOS, PCOSQ, Polycystic ovary syndrome Questionnaire.
Background: OA knee is one of the commonest cause of disability in Elderly individuals which can cause functional decline and balance impairment which leads to difficulty in Activities of daily living hence this study was conducted to evaluate the balance and physical function in OA knee patients using simple clinical test so that the patients from the rural area can also evaluated where advanced measures are not available. METHOD: In this cross-sectional observational study, the participants were elderly in community and patients coming to OPD included in convenient sampling both male and female patients with OA knee joint.60 participants were assessed for Balance and Physical function using Mini-BEST and FTSTST respectively and co-relation between Balance and Physical function. RESULT: The results show that the balance and physical function was affected by the OA and the impact was greater according to the severity and also co-relation shows that as the balance impairment was more the ability to perform the physical function was reduced in OA knee patients
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