Pub Date : 2023-04-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2023.008
S. Sinha, M. Patil, S. Sharma, Ankit Pranjal, Tanvi Meha
Diabetes is grouped into the category of disease (lifestyle diseases) where lifestyle plays an important factor. A good self care activities among the diabetes affected patients, the disease can be well controlled and managed. These are healthy eating, being physically active, monitoring of blood sugar, adherence with medications, foot care and smoking etc.: To determine the self-care practice among the diabetic patients in the urban area of North Karnataka and to assess their socio-demographic risk factors.: A cross-sectional study was conducted among the diabetic patients in urban field practice area of North Karnataka. House to house survey was conducted and data was collected by using pre-designed pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire by interview method. Data is presented in proportion and analysed using MS-Excel 2007 and SPSS v 22. Chi-square test & OR were applied & p value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. : Diabetes self-care activities undertaken by the study population showed that three fourth (75.76%) of the patients were not adherent to the diet. Adequate self-care activities in form of exercise were seen in only (24.24%), foot care (25.45%), blood glucose monitoring 139 (84.24%), medication (72.73%) and (93.94%) did not smoke.: Self-care activities with respect to diet and exercise were poor in the population studied.
糖尿病被归为一类疾病(生活方式疾病)，其中生活方式起着重要的作用。良好的自我保健活动可以使糖尿病患者的病情得到很好的控制和管理。这些指标包括健康饮食、身体活动、监测血糖、坚持服药、足部护理和吸烟等:确定北卡纳塔克邦城市地区糖尿病患者的自我护理做法，并评估其社会人口风险因素。对北卡纳塔克邦城市野外执业区糖尿病患者进行横断面研究。采用预先设计、预先测试的半结构化问卷，采用访谈法进行逐户调查，收集数据。数据按比例呈现，并使用MS-Excel 2007和SPSS v 22进行分析。采用卡方检验和OR, p值<0.05认为有统计学意义。研究人群进行的糖尿病自我保健活动显示，四分之三(75.76%)的患者没有坚持饮食。以运动形式进行适当的自我保健活动的仅占24.24%，足部护理占25.45%，血糖监测占84.24%，药物治疗占72.73%，不吸烟占93.94%。在研究人群中，饮食和运动方面的自我保健活动很差。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2023.004
H. Kaur, R. Singh
Childhood immunizations have been claimed to be the most appropriate and effective technology for child survival. Determination of the degree of care giver’s satisfaction towards immunization will provide evidence as to whether or not the right immunization services are being provided. A cross-sectional study was conducted in the immunization clinic attached to tertiary care institute. Care giver’s (Mother, or accompanying person) of children aged up to 5 years visiting immunization clinic were included in the study. Proforma contained details of socio- demographic profile of care giver and satisfaction of care giver towards immunization services received at immunization clinic. Study was conducted for a period of two weeks in October 2019. Data was collected by using standard proforma from the guide for conducting an Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) Review. By adopting convenient sampling, total of 75 responses of caregiver’s were recorded. The data collected was compiled and statistical analysis was done using SPSS 20. The study revealed that maximum mother’s (57.3%) accompanied children as caregiver’s for immunization in the clinic. Complete satisfaction with registration process was seen in 14.7% of respondents. As regards to vaccination services in the immunisation clinic 17.3% of caregiver’s were somewhat satisfied while 46.7% were neutral about the vaccination services. In our study most of the caregiver’s were satisfied with registration process, seating arrangement ,attitude of service provider and waiting time. But dissatisfaction was still observed in our study.
{"title":"Caregiver’s satisfaction regarding immunization services in a tertiary care Institute, Punjab","authors":"H. Kaur, R. Singh","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2023.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2023.004","url":null,"abstract":"Childhood immunizations have been claimed to be the most appropriate and effective technology for child survival. Determination of the degree of care giver’s satisfaction towards immunization will provide evidence as to whether or not the right immunization services are being provided. A cross-sectional study was conducted in the immunization clinic attached to tertiary care institute. Care giver’s (Mother, or accompanying person) of children aged up to 5 years visiting immunization clinic were included in the study. Proforma contained details of socio- demographic profile of care giver and satisfaction of care giver towards immunization services received at immunization clinic. Study was conducted for a period of two weeks in October 2019. Data was collected by using standard proforma from the guide for conducting an Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) Review. By adopting convenient sampling, total of 75 responses of caregiver’s were recorded. The data collected was compiled and statistical analysis was done using SPSS 20. The study revealed that maximum mother’s (57.3%) accompanied children as caregiver’s for immunization in the clinic. Complete satisfaction with registration process was seen in 14.7% of respondents. As regards to vaccination services in the immunisation clinic 17.3% of caregiver’s were somewhat satisfied while 46.7% were neutral about the vaccination services. In our study most of the caregiver’s were satisfied with registration process, seating arrangement ,attitude of service provider and waiting time. But dissatisfaction was still observed in our study.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80019381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.038
Richa Gupta, Garima Singh, Anjesh Mittal
In India, nearly 1 million people got the injury by burn in which 10 percent cases occurs accidentally ¹. Post mortem burned body has always been a difficult and challenging task for forensic investigations. This case report consist of homicide involving post mortem burns with aim to abolish the identity and cover up the cause of death of the corpse. The aim of study is to establish the identity in relation to age, sex, time, cause and manner of death in burn corpses by postmortem examination. Body was found burning at the abandoned place absence of vitality signs are factors indicative of postmortem burning following homicide. Post Mortem examination with careful interpretation of all evidences includes clothes, bones and other exhibits found at the crime scene along with postmortem radiography and toxicological analysis can play a key role in every such cases.
{"title":"Burnt to blazes: homicidal act of strangulation with post mortem burn: A case report","authors":"Richa Gupta, Garima Singh, Anjesh Mittal","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.038","url":null,"abstract":"In India, nearly 1 million people got the injury by burn in which 10 percent cases occurs accidentally ¹. Post mortem burned body has always been a difficult and challenging task for forensic investigations. This case report consist of homicide involving post mortem burns with aim to abolish the identity and cover up the cause of death of the corpse. The aim of study is to establish the identity in relation to age, sex, time, cause and manner of death in burn corpses by postmortem examination. Body was found burning at the abandoned place absence of vitality signs are factors indicative of postmortem burning following homicide. Post Mortem examination with careful interpretation of all evidences includes clothes, bones and other exhibits found at the crime scene along with postmortem radiography and toxicological analysis can play a key role in every such cases.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"1327 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91457139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.035
Divyae Kansal, Seema Sharma, Amit Kumar, S. Kumari, S. Pandey
National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has created a cadre of trained female community health activists called Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) to strengthen the health care system and to mobilize community towards increased utilization of existing health services. The contribution of the Accredited Social Health ActivistASHA) to the achievement of the country’s targets for new-born & child health services is critical. The present study was planned with objective to assess & compare the level of knowledge of ASHA workers regarding child health services working in rural and urban areas of a block of Haryana. The present cross-sectional, community-based study was conducted in block Barwala, district Hisar of Haryana. The assessment of knowledge of ASHA workers was done on the basis of scoring. Appropriate statistical tests like percentages and chi-square (χ2) test were applied. Regarding child health services majority of ASHA workers had good knowledge, assessed by score gained by them and none of them was having poor knowledge about child health services. However, in rural area score gained was better than urban area & the observed difference was found to be statistically significant. Majority of ASHA workers either working in rural or urban areas, were having inadequate knowledge about identification of danger signs during diarrhoea & acute respiratory infection in a child and danger signs of new born. They had adequate knowledge regarding cord stump care; breast Feeding practices; routine Immunization; Vitamin A supplement and home based post natal care (HBPNC) visits. Inadequate knowledge of ASHA workers regarding new born care should be taken into consideration. Supportive supervision should be done in their working area.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.031
A. Prabhune, N. Sethiya, Heemanshu Arora
The primary objective of this paper is to develop a framework for continuous monitoring of the safety of food business operators without overburdening established regulatory systems through social media for food safety. A phase-wise methodology was adopted, wherein Phase 1 was dedicated to identifying available literature on Adverse Drugs Reactions (ADR) reporting using Social Media data. Phase 2 used the data from google maps review of the restaurants to replicate a similar methodology for Food Safety Surveillance. We identified 5 themes for a complete Surveillance framework, theme 1 involves data collection from social media, theme 2 involves pre-processing of data for analysis, theme 3 involves data annotations, theme 4 involves Identifying the relationship between regulatory violation and event, and theme 5 involves evaluation of the model. We were able to demonstrate the ADR reporting methodology could be adopted till theme 3, whereas theme 4 requires the development of an algorithm to assess the causality of an event with the Food Safety Code. According to our research, it is possible to develop a passive surveillance system for food safety that adheres to the principle of ADR reporting; however, the main obstacle is the absence of a causality assessment algorithm that can link an event to the food safety code and help regulators take immediate action.
{"title":"A research framework for passive surveillance for food safety from social media: Identification and evaluation of customer reviews for regulatory use and case study of 30 restaurants","authors":"A. Prabhune, N. Sethiya, Heemanshu Arora","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.031","url":null,"abstract":"The primary objective of this paper is to develop a framework for continuous monitoring of the safety of food business operators without overburdening established regulatory systems through social media for food safety. A phase-wise methodology was adopted, wherein Phase 1 was dedicated to identifying available literature on Adverse Drugs Reactions (ADR) reporting using Social Media data. Phase 2 used the data from google maps review of the restaurants to replicate a similar methodology for Food Safety Surveillance. We identified 5 themes for a complete Surveillance framework, theme 1 involves data collection from social media, theme 2 involves pre-processing of data for analysis, theme 3 involves data annotations, theme 4 involves Identifying the relationship between regulatory violation and event, and theme 5 involves evaluation of the model. We were able to demonstrate the ADR reporting methodology could be adopted till theme 3, whereas theme 4 requires the development of an algorithm to assess the causality of an event with the Food Safety Code. According to our research, it is possible to develop a passive surveillance system for food safety that adheres to the principle of ADR reporting; however, the main obstacle is the absence of a causality assessment algorithm that can link an event to the food safety code and help regulators take immediate action.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85245419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.032
Srihari Dhandapani, Yogesh Kumar S, J. Singh, Sandhya Gowthaman, Christina Karthaka, Ooviya Jayaseelan
: Community health workers (CHW) are at the frontline facing the pandemic. Adequate awareness, knowledge and practice of preventive measures are of the utmost importance to sensitize the community and prevent spread of infection. The objective of our study was to assess the awareness, knowledge, and practices regarding COVID-19 infection among CHWs of four primary health care centers in Belagavi district, Karnataka, India.: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among CHWs working under 4 primary health centres. Data were collected from May 2020 to June 2020. Score of 1 was given to correct responses of 12 select questions taken from the awareness, knowledge, and practice sections. A combined score of ≥ 8 was considered satisfactory.: Among 341 participants (response rate: 96%), mean age was 40.1 ± 8.2 years and 324 (95.01%) were female. Majority had a minimum of secondary education (84.46%). Source of information for majority were through mobile phones and television (81.82%). 165 (47.21%) knew the mode of transmission of COVID-19.: The awareness, knowledge and practice among CHWs were adequate. Periodic training program and support from administrative authorities will motivate them to continue taking appropriate precautions.
{"title":"Practices and associated factors regarding COVID-19 among community health workers: A cross-sectional survey from India","authors":"Srihari Dhandapani, Yogesh Kumar S, J. Singh, Sandhya Gowthaman, Christina Karthaka, Ooviya Jayaseelan","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.032","url":null,"abstract":": Community health workers (CHW) are at the frontline facing the pandemic. Adequate awareness, knowledge and practice of preventive measures are of the utmost importance to sensitize the community and prevent spread of infection. The objective of our study was to assess the awareness, knowledge, and practices regarding COVID-19 infection among CHWs of four primary health care centers in Belagavi district, Karnataka, India.: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among CHWs working under 4 primary health centres. Data were collected from May 2020 to June 2020. Score of 1 was given to correct responses of 12 select questions taken from the awareness, knowledge, and practice sections. A combined score of ≥ 8 was considered satisfactory.: Among 341 participants (response rate: 96%), mean age was 40.1 ± 8.2 years and 324 (95.01%) were female. Majority had a minimum of secondary education (84.46%). Source of information for majority were through mobile phones and television (81.82%). 165 (47.21%) knew the mode of transmission of COVID-19.: The awareness, knowledge and practice among CHWs were adequate. Periodic training program and support from administrative authorities will motivate them to continue taking appropriate precautions.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80760743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.039
S. Devassy
Barricades are mainly meant to alert drivers to hazards created by construction or maintenance operations on highways. It will guide the driver across the hazard. Police uses barricades to control the traffic diversions, traffic from entering work areas, separate two-way traffic and police checking. Many times it becomes a way of revenue generator for the police and the unattended or unmanned barricades which left at its place becomes a death trap for the motorcyclist. Thus, the purpose of barricade in total changes from the saviour of a driver to Yamaraj (God of Death). In this article we discuss the post-mortem examination of two such cases which occurred in the same winter season.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.034
Aditya Bhatt, F. Islam, Aqsa Shaikh
Barber shops are potential medium for transmission of BBVI and several communicable diseases as barber shops are visited by general population. Poor knowledge and improper hygiene practices can lead to transmission of infections. Limited number of studies is done in India about knowledge, attitude, and practice of barbers regarding transmission and prevention of BBVI. To assess knowledge, attitude, and practices of barbers regarding Blood Borne Viral Infections and their association with sociodemographic factors. A workplace-based cross-sectional study was conducted to find out the knowledge, attitude, and practices of barbers regarding Blood Borne Viral Infections in South-West district of Delhi. A total of 150 barbers were included in the study. Majority of barbers had poor knowledge (75.3%), almost one fourth of the study participants had moderate knowledge (22.7%) and only (2.0%) of barber had good knowledge about BBVI. Majority of barbers had poor attitude and practices (74.0%), one fourth of the study participants had moderate attitude and practices (22.7%) and only 1(0.7%) barber had good attitude and practices towards BBVI. Most of the barbers had poor knowledge, attitude and practice regarding BBVI. Knowledge, attitude, and practices was found to be significant with education and registration of shop.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.033
Mukesh Sharma, Akshra Mathur, Jiya Nair, Anshuman V Ramani, R. K. Tiwari
The field of forensic psychology has been growing in prominence in the past couple of decades. Psychology is used to detect the deception of the persons are involved in many areas that relate to crime, both solving crime and absolving people wrongly accused of committing crimes. The goal of lie detection is the discovery of a truth that is known to one person and concealed from others. Psychophysiological lie detection, or polygraphy, is based on the theory that lying produces particular emotions, which produce corresponding measurable physiological responses. Modern polygraphy measures blood pressure, breathing, and skin conductance. Alternative metrics such as voice stress analysis and functional magnetic resonance imaging are as yet unproven. The control question test uses relevant, control, and irrelevant questions. A larger response to the relevant questions is considered evidence of deception. The guilty knowledge test uses concealed information questions and irrelevant questions.Through this article authors have tried to report that how the polygraph examination of real cases is important and helpful to the investigating officer, using our three cases study, results are demonstrated.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.040
S. Suraj, C. Mittal, Velupugonda Sudha Sree, Sagarika Paaleti
Aspiration of foreign bodies, stomach contents, food material into the airways and lungs can cause sudden death and a wide spectrum of pulmonary disorders with various presentations. Sudden deaths often occur in such subjects under the alcohol intoxication with no injuries. In such deaths with no associated causes, meticulous autopsy with chemical analysis and histopathology of lung plays a significant role in opining regarding the cause of death. We report here such a case of aspiration of gastric contents under the influence of alcohol.
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