A BSTRACT Introduction: The harmful use of alcohol is increasing at a huge pace leading to the occurrence of multiple diseases and has become a leading risk factor for global burden of diseases. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the health profile of adult women and to find out the medical and social effects of alcohol consumption. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the rural field practice area, Ormanjhi of RIMS, Ranchi, for a duration of 27 months (September 2016 to November 2018) among 336 women by multistage random sampling. A pretested semi-structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Templates were generated in MS Excel sheet and analysis of data was done using SPSS software (20.0). Results: The mean BMI of the study subjects was 21.62 ± 3.33 kg/m 2 . Anaemia was present in 42.6% of the women, 10.4% women were hypertensive and 9.2% were suffering from diabetes. The association between alcohol consumption and occurrence of co-morbidities was found insignificant. The social effects of alcoholism varied ranging from going into debts seen in 35.42% of the women; 62.5% of the women were criticised about their drinking habit by relatives or children. About 9.5% of the women were found to consume alcohol during their last pregnancy, and among women who were on regular intake of alcohol even during pregnancy, majority (65.62%) of them delivered by normal vaginal delivery. Conclusion: Alcohol consumption among females caused several adverse social consequences without any significant effect on health.
Background: Mother and child protection card (MCP card) is a common card to maintain the record of health care delivery including antenatal care, post-natal care and care of the child that can be used by both the health personnel and the beneficiaries. This study was done among Sahiyyas and AWWs to assess their awareness about MCP card, to find out their training status, to assess their knowledge and skill in recording information in MCP card and assess their role perception of MCP card.Methods: A multi-stage stratified random sampling method was adopted to select Sahiyyas and AWW’s for interview between November 2017 – April 2018 (6 months). 17 Sahiyya and 19 AWWs were interviewed using a pre tested schedule. Templates were generated in MS Excel sheet and data analysis was done using SPSS software (version 20).Results: All the Anganwadi workers who were included in this study were aware about the MCP card whereas 15 out of 17 sahiyyas had awareness about the existence of MCP card. Training in order to orient the AWW and Sahiyya about using MCP card was very low, only 6 out of 19 (31.6%) of AWW had received training and 8 out of 17 (47.1%) Sahiyya’s were trained. We found that majority of the workers and Sahiyya had knowlwdge about most of the sections and had used it to record information in MCP card.Conclusions: Sahiyya’s and AWWs were aware about existence of MCP card, and most of them use it, despite very low training status.
Introduction: Alcoholic beverages have been a part of social life since ages in the western countries. While alcohol abuse is a problem universally it has not left India untouched. Not only men but also women have included alcohol as a part of their social habit. Aims and objectives: This study aims to find out the prevalence of alcohol use among women residing in rural field practice area of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi and to find out the factors leading to initiation and consumption of alcohol. Methodology: This was a cross sectional study done in rural field practice area, ormanjhi of RIMS, Ranchi for a duration of 28 months (from September 2016 to November 2018). The sample size came out to be 336. Templates for data entry were generated in Microsoft office Excel sheet and analysis was done using SPSS 20.0. Results: After analysis of 336 females, it was found that 188 out of 336 (55.95%) of the study subjects are above the age of 40 years, approximately half of them were Hindu (50.9%) and about 46.1% of the study subjects were illiterate. The prevalence of alcohol use among females was found to be 56 out of 336 (16.7%) and 48 out of 336 (14.3%) are current users of alcohol. Among alcoholics custom (39.29%) was the reason for initiation of alcohol, followed by amusement (25%). Total of 24 out of 56 (42.85%) alcoholic women said family member was the reason for their initiation of alcoholic drink. Addiction to alcohol consumption was strongly associated with age group of study subjects. Elderly women were more common consumers of alcohol. Conclusion: we conclude that about 14.3% of women are current consumers of alcohol.
Background: Cervical cancer has become a vital cause of cancer mortality among women worldwide. It is the fifth most common cancer overall and second most common cancer among women worldwide. Aims and Objectives: To assess the frequency of established risk factors of cervical cancer among study subjects and to find out the association between socio demographic variables and risk factors with results of pap smear test. Materials and Methods: Hospital based cross sectional study was conducted in Pathology department of Rajendra Institute of medical sciences, Ranchi for 3 months (September – November 2017) on total of 106 women who gave consent. Results: All the women (n=106) were married, 68 out of 106 (64.2%) were Hindus, 57 out of 106 (53.8%)were non Tribals 60.4% were from urban area and most of them 62 out of 106 (58.49%) were housewives. Amongst risk factors, 69 out of 106(65.09%) had their first sexual intercourse before 18 years of age, only 11 out of 106 (10.4%) were addicted to smoking and 42 out of 106 (39.62%) had past history of STIs. Educational status and Socio economic status was found to be significantly associated with abnormal pap smear results with p value <0.05. Conclusion: Most of the women were from non tribal ethnicity and urban background and illiterate with the mean age of 37.9± 10.56 years. Educational status and Socio economic status were significantly associated with abnormal Pap results.
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