Pub Date : 2022-09-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.030
R. K. Mishra, Anil Budania, Ruchika Chouhan, Mukesh Sharma
In all types of heinous crime cases like murder, homicides, assassinations, police encounter with criminal firearms are mostly involved which make important trace evidence as Gunshot residue (GSR), helps the investigating agency and forensic expert to solve and get a proper direction of investigations. Though this review article we tried to cover the how GSR form, composition and recent advancement in detection of GSR. This pilot study will provide a hand on single article to the reader with great interest of GSR and its value in forensic investigations. The review results are in the form of impact of GSR in crime solving possibility and very interesting case study also report.
{"title":"A pilot study on review of GSR with a case study","authors":"R. K. Mishra, Anil Budania, Ruchika Chouhan, Mukesh Sharma","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.030","url":null,"abstract":"In all types of heinous crime cases like murder, homicides, assassinations, police encounter with criminal firearms are mostly involved which make important trace evidence as Gunshot residue (GSR), helps the investigating agency and forensic expert to solve and get a proper direction of investigations. Though this review article we tried to cover the how GSR form, composition and recent advancement in detection of GSR. This pilot study will provide a hand on single article to the reader with great interest of GSR and its value in forensic investigations. The review results are in the form of impact of GSR in crime solving possibility and very interesting case study also report.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78865965","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 : 2022-09-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.028
P. S. Ghormade, Kavyesh Sahu, S. Akhade
Road traffic accidents (RTA) result in the deaths of approximately 1.3 million people around the world each year; among them, more than half of all road traffic deaths and injuries involve vulnerable road users, such as cyclists, motorcyclists, along with pillion riders and pedestrians. Blunt cardiac trauma (BCT) often results from high-impact mechanisms caused by motorcycle crashes, motor vehicle accidents, fall injuries, and crush injuries. Thoracic injuries, causing a significant injury to the myocardium, account for morbidity and mortality (often instantly fatal) among trauma patients. We encountered a case of RTA in which 24 years old male sustained blunt trauma to chest. Autopsy findings revealed traumatic rupture of anterior wall of left ventricle leading to hemopericardium. Cardiac contusions were found over the right ventricle and left atrium. Histopathology of heart ruled out the myocardial infarction. Present case highlights the plausible mechanism involved in traumatic rupture of the heart. Finding out the exact cause of cardiac rupture in such cases have profound medicolegal significance.
{"title":"Traumatic rupture of heart due to blunt trauma to chest: an autopsy case report with review of literature","authors":"P. S. Ghormade, Kavyesh Sahu, S. Akhade","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.028","url":null,"abstract":"Road traffic accidents (RTA) result in the deaths of approximately 1.3 million people around the world each year; among them, more than half of all road traffic deaths and injuries involve vulnerable road users, such as cyclists, motorcyclists, along with pillion riders and pedestrians. Blunt cardiac trauma (BCT) often results from high-impact mechanisms caused by motorcycle crashes, motor vehicle accidents, fall injuries, and crush injuries. Thoracic injuries, causing a significant injury to the myocardium, account for morbidity and mortality (often instantly fatal) among trauma patients. We encountered a case of RTA in which 24 years old male sustained blunt trauma to chest. Autopsy findings revealed traumatic rupture of anterior wall of left ventricle leading to hemopericardium. Cardiac contusions were found over the right ventricle and left atrium. Histopathology of heart ruled out the myocardial infarction. Present case highlights the plausible mechanism involved in traumatic rupture of the heart. Finding out the exact cause of cardiac rupture in such cases have profound medicolegal significance.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83554847","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 : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.014
M. Sahu, P. Tripathy, M. Mohanty, K. S. Padhi, A. Naveen
The age determination of an individual is indispensable in various civil and criminal cases. The sternum is one of the key bones for age estimation beyond 25 years. Many studies were done in the past on age determination from the sternum had variable and inconclusive results. Further, the region-specific research on the sternum for age determination is lacking from the eastern Indian population. The present study was done to examine the sternum for its fusion status along each segment, mesosternum-xiphisternal (MXJ) junction, and manubrium-sternal (MSJ) joint by direct inspection. This cross-sectional, observational study was conducted in the mortuary of a tertiary health care center in ABC. 102 sterna were collected from known corpses during autopsy which included 73 males and 29 females aged between 6 years to 85 years. The earliest complete fusion of manubrium with the body was observed to be 17 years in females and 24 years in males. Whereas the maximum number of cases of complete fusion was observed among 51-60 years of age irrespective of the sexes, indicative of a very limited role of the sternum in estimating the age. The fusion of each segment of mesosternum has utility in determining age beyond 20 years and the xiphisternal joint remains reliable corroborative evidence for the age beyond 40 years.
{"title":"Age estimation from sternum of eastern Indian population: Autopsy based study","authors":"M. Sahu, P. Tripathy, M. Mohanty, K. S. Padhi, A. Naveen","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.014","url":null,"abstract":"The age determination of an individual is indispensable in various civil and criminal cases. The sternum is one of the key bones for age estimation beyond 25 years. Many studies were done in the past on age determination from the sternum had variable and inconclusive results. Further, the region-specific research on the sternum for age determination is lacking from the eastern Indian population. The present study was done to examine the sternum for its fusion status along each segment, mesosternum-xiphisternal (MXJ) junction, and manubrium-sternal (MSJ) joint by direct inspection. This cross-sectional, observational study was conducted in the mortuary of a tertiary health care center in ABC. 102 sterna were collected from known corpses during autopsy which included 73 males and 29 females aged between 6 years to 85 years. The earliest complete fusion of manubrium with the body was observed to be 17 years in females and 24 years in males. Whereas the maximum number of cases of complete fusion was observed among 51-60 years of age irrespective of the sexes, indicative of a very limited role of the sternum in estimating the age. The fusion of each segment of mesosternum has utility in determining age beyond 20 years and the xiphisternal joint remains reliable corroborative evidence for the age beyond 40 years.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77840864","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 : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.020
I. A. Khan
Mobile phones and similar gadgets are increasingly being used owing to the massive growth in internet and advancement in digital device technology. Learning via mobile phones and similar gadgets has become one of the most popular and useful teaching tools used by different class of students across the world. But any new technology has some drawbacks also which should be addressed in timely and efficiently to reduce its ill effects. A multipronged approach may be utilised to curtail the ill effects of mobile phones and similar gadgets.
{"title":"Cell phone uses among students: Two aspects of coin","authors":"I. A. Khan","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.020","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile phones and similar gadgets are increasingly being used owing to the massive growth in internet and advancement in digital device technology. Learning via mobile phones and similar gadgets has become one of the most popular and useful teaching tools used by different class of students across the world. But any new technology has some drawbacks also which should be addressed in timely and efficiently to reduce its ill effects. A multipronged approach may be utilised to curtail the ill effects of mobile phones and similar gadgets.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79966966","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 : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.013
Sudheer K N, Savitha Rani B B, Greshma C Nair, Vinay K S, Gopinath S
WHO declared coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. COVID-19 vaccines have been rapidly developed and distributed to help fight the pandemic. By January 2021, use of the Covishield vaccine and Covaxin vaccine use was approved. India began its vaccination program on 16 January 2021. The objective of the study is to assess the severity of COVID 19 infection among those vaccinated and unvaccinated as this will help us to assess the efficacy of the vaccines.By Convenient sampling technique the data of all those patients who were admitted in tertiary care centers in Tumkur district during second wave (April-July 2021) of COVID 19 infection were assessed from their medical records. The severity of the COVID 19 infection was assessed by evaluating the CT scores, lymphocyte/ neutrophil ratio, platelet distribution width, medical treatment provided and outcome which was later compared to vaccine status of the patients. Out of 220 patients in the study, 188(85.5%) were not vaccinated, 183(83.2%) had a positive RT PCR report, with most having CT of moderate changes (45.9%). Only 42(19.1%) patients underwent intubation and 28(12.7%) patients died. Using Chi Square test it was seen that those who were not vaccinated had moderate to severe CT scores (P = 0.026).Those who were not vaccinated had a higher chance of developing moderate to severe CT changes, though the death rate was less. Vaccine is found to be efficacious in fighting against COVID-19.
{"title":"A study to compare the disease severity between vaccinated and unvaccinated COVID 19 patients in Tumkur city","authors":"Sudheer K N, Savitha Rani B B, Greshma C Nair, Vinay K S, Gopinath S","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.013","url":null,"abstract":"WHO declared coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. COVID-19 vaccines have been rapidly developed and distributed to help fight the pandemic. By January 2021, use of the Covishield vaccine and Covaxin vaccine use was approved. India began its vaccination program on 16 January 2021. The objective of the study is to assess the severity of COVID 19 infection among those vaccinated and unvaccinated as this will help us to assess the efficacy of the vaccines.By Convenient sampling technique the data of all those patients who were admitted in tertiary care centers in Tumkur district during second wave (April-July 2021) of COVID 19 infection were assessed from their medical records. The severity of the COVID 19 infection was assessed by evaluating the CT scores, lymphocyte/ neutrophil ratio, platelet distribution width, medical treatment provided and outcome which was later compared to vaccine status of the patients. Out of 220 patients in the study, 188(85.5%) were not vaccinated, 183(83.2%) had a positive RT PCR report, with most having CT of moderate changes (45.9%). Only 42(19.1%) patients underwent intubation and 28(12.7%) patients died. Using Chi Square test it was seen that those who were not vaccinated had moderate to severe CT scores (P = 0.026).Those who were not vaccinated had a higher chance of developing moderate to severe CT changes, though the death rate was less. Vaccine is found to be efficacious in fighting against COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85028070","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 : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.017
M. Sahu, A. Naveen, M. Mohanty, M. Sable, Baishwanar Banerjee
Death from natural diseases prior to or after entering the water is relatively rare but does occur. These underlying natural diseases lead to the incapacitation of the water victims and culminate in accidental or unintentional drownings. People who are unaware or ignorant of their disease status, living in rural areas with nearby open water sources, and belonging to economically backward communities in developing countries are more vulnerable to these unintentional drownings and pose a substantial challenge in determining the cause of death. Here we present a 45-year-old, underweight woman who brought a history of drowning in a pond near her house where she regularly took a bath. The history from the relatives and crime scene investigation was unremarkable. Thalamic hemorrhage, intraventricular hemorrhage, triple vessel atherosclerosis of the heart, and left ventricular hypertrophy suggestive of undiagnosed hypertension were discerned only after the autopsy, besides profound findings of drowning. This report highlights the significance of a meticulous autopsy to explain the cause of death in unwitnessed open water drownings, thus benefitting the bystanders and investigating team.
{"title":"A rare case of fatal thalamic hemorrhage with intraventricular extension complicating drowning in an underweight woman","authors":"M. Sahu, A. Naveen, M. Mohanty, M. Sable, Baishwanar Banerjee","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.017","url":null,"abstract":"Death from natural diseases prior to or after entering the water is relatively rare but does occur. These underlying natural diseases lead to the incapacitation of the water victims and culminate in accidental or unintentional drownings. People who are unaware or ignorant of their disease status, living in rural areas with nearby open water sources, and belonging to economically backward communities in developing countries are more vulnerable to these unintentional drownings and pose a substantial challenge in determining the cause of death. Here we present a 45-year-old, underweight woman who brought a history of drowning in a pond near her house where she regularly took a bath. The history from the relatives and crime scene investigation was unremarkable. Thalamic hemorrhage, intraventricular hemorrhage, triple vessel atherosclerosis of the heart, and left ventricular hypertrophy suggestive of undiagnosed hypertension were discerned only after the autopsy, besides profound findings of drowning. This report highlights the significance of a meticulous autopsy to explain the cause of death in unwitnessed open water drownings, thus benefitting the bystanders and investigating team.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74726424","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 : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.016
R. Gupta, P. Sodani
The primary objective of this paper is the comparison and describe features of health policies across the selected countries viz, Argentina, Australia, Finland, Kenya, India, South Korea, United Kingdom (U.K), United States (U.S). The second objective of the paper is to understand the political commitment in each country by comparing the allocation of adequate resources toward health. To study health policies, eight countries are selected from each geographical region and to determine political commitment toward health policy, three related variables are analyzed. Databases of the multilateral organization including the World Health Organization (WHO) are searched for the latest data. Out of the eight countries studied, only India and Kenya have a National Health Policy. The rest of the countries have medical care policies or health insurance policies or national law to lay down the vision for the health sector. The data indicate that countries which fall in the higher income bracket spend more on health. However, the spending data or the lack of it indicates that there is perhaps no focus on primary care, nutrition, and sanitation, among the prominent drivers of health outcomes. Many countries continue to struggle, to maintain continuity in the broad direction of the health policy. The realm of health process formulation is a major area which needs further research, evidence, re-orientation, and training for policymakers across countries to ensure structured and evidence-based policy formulation. Once there is a structured health policy process, the health policies may effectively address the ground-level issues and may lead to better health outcomes.
{"title":"Cross-country comparison of health policies in eight countries","authors":"R. Gupta, P. Sodani","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.016","url":null,"abstract":"The primary objective of this paper is the comparison and describe features of health policies across the selected countries viz, Argentina, Australia, Finland, Kenya, India, South Korea, United Kingdom (U.K), United States (U.S). The second objective of the paper is to understand the political commitment in each country by comparing the allocation of adequate resources toward health. To study health policies, eight countries are selected from each geographical region and to determine political commitment toward health policy, three related variables are analyzed. Databases of the multilateral organization including the World Health Organization (WHO) are searched for the latest data. Out of the eight countries studied, only India and Kenya have a National Health Policy. The rest of the countries have medical care policies or health insurance policies or national law to lay down the vision for the health sector. The data indicate that countries which fall in the higher income bracket spend more on health. However, the spending data or the lack of it indicates that there is perhaps no focus on primary care, nutrition, and sanitation, among the prominent drivers of health outcomes. Many countries continue to struggle, to maintain continuity in the broad direction of the health policy. The realm of health process formulation is a major area which needs further research, evidence, re-orientation, and training for policymakers across countries to ensure structured and evidence-based policy formulation. Once there is a structured health policy process, the health policies may effectively address the ground-level issues and may lead to better health outcomes.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88795498","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 : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.019
Ramalingam S, Narayanan S, Narendar R
Deaths due to accidental ingestion, suicidal consumption and homicide poisoning with colchicine alkaloid containing extracts have been documented and reported in innumerable literature across the world. The lowest reported lethal dose of oral colchicine are 7-26 mg. Gloriosa superba, regionally known as Kodalikkizhangu is a highly poisonous flowering plant, seen wide spread in south and south East Asia. Colchicine is concentrated in the seeds and tubers of the plant. Colchicine content of Gloriosa tuber is 0.3%. These tubers are often mistaken as yams and accidentally ingested. Ingestion of tubers of Gloriosa results in colchicine poisoning. Toxicity of Gloriosa is due to the anti-mitotic effect of its toxic principle namely colchicine and Gloriosin on the rapidly proliferating cells such as stomach and oesophagus. Cardiac manifestation of Gloriosa poisoning is due to the impaired cardio myocyte conduction and contractility. Deaths in these cases are due to multi-organ failure. No specific antidote is available. A 71-year-old male who was a chronic alcoholic and known hypertensive got admitted in toxicology ward, with symptoms of acute gastroenteritis, 11 hours after alleged consumption of tubers of a wild plant. 24 hours after ingestion the patient succumbed to death and post-mortem was done to establish cause of death.
{"title":"Death due to kodalikkizhangu poisoning: A case report","authors":"Ramalingam S, Narayanan S, Narendar R","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.019","url":null,"abstract":"Deaths due to accidental ingestion, suicidal consumption and homicide poisoning with colchicine alkaloid containing extracts have been documented and reported in innumerable literature across the world. The lowest reported lethal dose of oral colchicine are 7-26 mg. Gloriosa superba, regionally known as Kodalikkizhangu is a highly poisonous flowering plant, seen wide spread in south and south East Asia. Colchicine is concentrated in the seeds and tubers of the plant. Colchicine content of Gloriosa tuber is 0.3%. These tubers are often mistaken as yams and accidentally ingested. Ingestion of tubers of Gloriosa results in colchicine poisoning. Toxicity of Gloriosa is due to the anti-mitotic effect of its toxic principle namely colchicine and Gloriosin on the rapidly proliferating cells such as stomach and oesophagus. Cardiac manifestation of Gloriosa poisoning is due to the impaired cardio myocyte conduction and contractility. Deaths in these cases are due to multi-organ failure. No specific antidote is available. A 71-year-old male who was a chronic alcoholic and known hypertensive got admitted in toxicology ward, with symptoms of acute gastroenteritis, 11 hours after alleged consumption of tubers of a wild plant. 24 hours after ingestion the patient succumbed to death and post-mortem was done to establish cause of death.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84884975","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 : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.015
D. Pandey, L. Kot, S. Dixit
A sudden outbreak of pneumonia of unknown cause occurred worldwide which later confirmed as the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection has posed significant threats to international health and the economy. On 30 January, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Initially a large number of cases this suspected to this disease reported from a small town near to this center. A team constituted with the administration which later investigated this whole phenomenon and reported to higher authority.
{"title":"Epidemiological linkage study of an outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) in a small town Badnagar of Madhya Pradesh","authors":"D. Pandey, L. Kot, S. Dixit","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.015","url":null,"abstract":"A sudden outbreak of pneumonia of unknown cause occurred worldwide which later confirmed as the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection has posed significant threats to international health and the economy. On 30 January, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Initially a large number of cases this suspected to this disease reported from a small town near to this center. A team constituted with the administration which later investigated this whole phenomenon and reported to higher authority.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83934280","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 : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.012
L. Salunkhe, M. Shete, Rahul Dhananjay Salunkhe, Nihal Mali, Vidya Dinkar Shete
Excessive use of internet brings change in mood, associate inability to regulate the amount of time spent with the Internet, withdrawal symptoms once not engaged, a affecting social life and adverse work or academic consequences which suggests symptoms related to depression, anxiety and stress and along with that it also affects self-esteem of the students. Aim of this study is to identify association of internet addiction with anxiety, depression, stress and self-esteem. A cross-sectional study of 200 students, resident of urban and rural population in the locality of Sangli district Maharashtra India were selected by simple random sampling having an access to the internet. The association of Young’s Internet addiction scale was used along with DASS-21, Rosenberg self-esteem scale for comparison in both urban and rural population. The prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress in both urban and rural area is 56%, 82% and 84% respectively. After we compared the internet addiction with psychological variables, we have found that 83.33% students in rural area exhibit signs of depression. Apart from that, 91% and 89% students from urban and rural area respectively have self-esteem within normal range.Internet usage has a robust impact on young population. Multi-sectoral approach plays an important role to promote healthy use of internet among urban and rural youth population.
{"title":"Internet usage among young population and its relation with anxiety, depression, stress and self-esteem","authors":"L. Salunkhe, M. Shete, Rahul Dhananjay Salunkhe, Nihal Mali, Vidya Dinkar Shete","doi":"10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2022.012","url":null,"abstract":"Excessive use of internet brings change in mood, associate inability to regulate the amount of time spent with the Internet, withdrawal symptoms once not engaged, a affecting social life and adverse work or academic consequences which suggests symptoms related to depression, anxiety and stress and along with that it also affects self-esteem of the students. Aim of this study is to identify association of internet addiction with anxiety, depression, stress and self-esteem. A cross-sectional study of 200 students, resident of urban and rural population in the locality of Sangli district Maharashtra India were selected by simple random sampling having an access to the internet. The association of Young’s Internet addiction scale was used along with DASS-21, Rosenberg self-esteem scale for comparison in both urban and rural population. The prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress in both urban and rural area is 56%, 82% and 84% respectively. After we compared the internet addiction with psychological variables, we have found that 83.33% students in rural area exhibit signs of depression. Apart from that, 91% and 89% students from urban and rural area respectively have self-esteem within normal range.Internet usage has a robust impact on young population. Multi-sectoral approach plays an important role to promote healthy use of internet among urban and rural youth population.","PeriodicalId":13276,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of forensic and community medicine","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88157078","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}
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