BACKGROUND: COVID-19 pandemic lockdown has brought all sectors to be dwindled with no exception of the academic system. Even professional courses like medical and allied health academic courses were also not spared. The academic requirements were not met as required to do so. Webinar has become a good source of virtual platform acting as a bridge for attaining the gaps in accomplishing the curriculum to the students during these curfew times. Our study aimed to know the value of webinars on teaching–learning processes among the medical and allied health science students in India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study design is a cross-sectional study with 2084 students who attended at least one webinar. An online survey questionnaire was sent, and the data were collected on participant's perspective on the effectiveness of webinar, post webinar assessment by their satisfactory level of gain of information through webinars and their plan to apply in future. RESULTS: Participant's perspective on effectiveness of webinar showed 66.7% of agreement with the webinar use. In post webinar assessment, the use of webinar was in agreement with 69.9% of the participants. Furthermore, we observed a significant association with the gain of information in post webinar assessment ( P < 0.05) and a significant association with their plan to apply in future ( P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Our results showed that the students were satisfied with the webinar teaching and acknowledged it to be an effective tool in the teaching–learning process to gain new knowledge and wish to attend webinars in future as a part of their curriculum. Thus, webinars have a constructive effect in the teaching and learning process in professional courses during pandemic lockdown.
Background: Text neck syndrome denotes the repetitive stress injury due to prolonged usage of electronic gadgets. If the condition is left untreated, could lead to serious permanent damage to nerves and spine. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the dependence to the electronic gadgets has increased as the academic sessions were conducted via virtual modes. These electronic gadgets were increasingly used for personal or recreational purposes particularly by the college students and this might result in neck pain, shoulder pain and discomfort. The objective of the current study is to determine the prevalence of text neck syndrome using neck disability index (NDI) among the under-graduate medical student and to find out the association between the duration of electronic gadget usage and text neck syndrome among the study population.Methods: A self-administered validated questionnaire (NDI) was used to evaluate the neck pain related disability. Google forms were sent to undergraduate students and 354 responded students were included in our study. Percentage and Chi-square values were analysed.Results: Prevalence of text neck syndrome was 16.7%. Significant association was found between gender, MBBS academic year and duration of electronic gadget usage with significant p values 0.030, 0.001 respectively. Duration of electronic gadget usage and text neck syndrome was associated statistically with significant p value 0.038.Conclusions: We conclude that there is significant disability associated with the duration of electronic gadget usage. We found that, the intensity of the neck pain increases with the duration of electronic gadget usage.
Background: WHO estimates that annually 3 million deaths occurs due to tuberculosis and will reach to more than one billion in 2020. In India, more than 40% of population is infected. The revised national tuberculosis control programme (RNTCP) uses directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS) therapy strategy to reduce mortality and morbidity, reduce transmission. Compliance to DOTS therapy is one of the important factors that affect the treatment outcome. Hence this study was done to assess the drug compliance rate of adults registered under RNTCP in the past one year and first three months after starting the study and to explore the factors associated with drug compliance.Methods: A longitudinal study was done in Bahour Commune Panchayat with subjects registered under RNTCP from January 2011 to March 2012. They were followed-up by house visit, interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire.Results: The mean age was 44±13 years, 35 (68.6%) males were illiterate. About 60 (85.7%) belong to Class IV socio-economic status; 15 (29.4%) and 33 (64.7%) of adults had smoking and alcohol intake respectively; 03 (04.3) were diabetic. The treatment compliance rates were cured 64.3% (45/70), completed 27.1% (19/70), default 2.9% (02/70), failure 5.7% (04/70).Conclusions: Male being diseased in the productive age-group, will not only affect the health of the patient but also affect the family’s economic status. Most of the males gave history of alcohol intake, for which they require constant motivation for compliance to the treatment.
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