Introduction: Fertility or the ability to produce children has a positive social value whereas; infertility has a negative social value in which it means inability couple to have children even though after living a normal sexual life and does not use any contraceptive devices for one year. Infertility can be primary or secondary and primary infertility means when a couple has never been able to conceive; secondary infertility means a couple who has previously conceived a pregnancy, but is unable to conceive again after a full year.The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge regarding infertility among the people of reproductive age group.Methods: Cross sectional was done to “Assess the knowledge regarding infertility among the people of reproductive age group "at Gynae OPD of Shree Birendra Hospital. The Non-probability purposive sampling technique was used. The study population was 110 and study period was 2071/3/15-2071/4/25. Semi-structured questionnaire was used. The data were analyzed by using SPSS 20.Results: No significant relationship was established (p=0.5) between the knowledge about infertility and age. There was approximately equal number of respondents who had knowledge of infertility in the variation of age group. The proportion of knowledge in male respondents (93.8%) is comparatively more than the female (84.6%). The proportion of knowledge of infertility according to the variation of ethnicity was similar to each other. Likewise the proportion of knowledge of infertility by occupation (p=0.216) and marital status (p=0.122) were also not significantly different. Conclusion: The knowledge of infertility was not associated to the age, occupation and marital status.
Introduction: Surgical site infection is a common occurrence in surgical ward. Knowledge about the commonest pathogen and its sensitivity in a particular setting is crucial in selection of appropriate antibiotics. No study has been performed earlier to identify the pattern of infection and antibiotic sensitivity in surgical department. So, this study aimed to analyze the commonest isolates from surgical site infection and their sensitivity pattern. Methods: A total of 56 cases of surgical site infection who were admitted in surgical ward at Shree Birendra Hospital, were included in this study. Wound swab from the infected surgical site was taken and send for culture and sensitivity. The obtained results were analysed using descriptive tools. Results: Among 56 surgical site infections only in 30 cases a pathogen was isolated. The commonest organism isolated was E.Coli 15(50%) followed by Staph. Aureus. The most sensitive antibiotics was Amikacine for E. Coli, and cefixime for S. Aureus. Conclusions: Ciprofloxacin seems to be the most appropriate first line oral antibiotics as it is sensitive both to E. Coli and S Aureus.Medical Journal of Shree Birendra Hospital; July-December 2012/vol.11/Issue2/18-20 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/mjsbh.v11i2.7903
Introduction: The premarital sex knowledge and consequences among adolescents was the subject of the research presented. Premarital sex issues are bombarding and it is an emerging topic, though adolescents are not being serious about it, they will be in great trouble in near future if they did not get adequate knowledge about this topic as premarital sex consequences rates are increasing day by day in all over the world like STIs, adolescence pregnancy, guilt, depression, stress, loss of self-respects etc especially on young adolescents. Methods: It was descriptive, cross-sectional study. Simple random sampling lottery method was used for obtaining 141 samples from higher secondary school. Self-administered questionnaire was distributed among adolescent to obtain their responses regarding premarital sex. Results: Out of 141 respondents, the study revealed that 87.2% responded premarital sex to be inappropriate. While 34% responded the cause of having premarital sex is due to lack of sex education. Regarding the consequences of premarital sex majority of the respondents were aware about different consequences that may occur due to premarital sex. Conclusions: Majority of the respondents had knowledge about premarital sex and its consequences.doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/mjsbh.v13i1.12999
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