The Journal of Community Health Management

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Authors: Sanat Kumar Sharma,, SC Mohapatra

Objective: The objective of the study is to evaluate the impact of HIV/AIDS information on the status of behavioral change brought. HIV/AIDS is spreading in discriminating rate among students. Method: A total of 250 male and female students were interviewed using snow ball sampling technique. A questionnaire was used to collect data. Results: Electronic communications-Radio, television, internet and print media- newspapers and magazine, were point out as information materials in local language (Amharic). The participants had good knowledge 45.7%, 81.4%, and 66.3%, of the cases mentioned homosexual practice, infected blood transfusion, and common use of sharp materials as major modes of transmission. Conclusion: Preparatiion of materiialls diid not consiider characteriistiics / qualliitiies whiich are peculliiar to students.. Most partiiciipants had good awareness.. However,, iinformatiion coulld not assurance a change iin behaviior for partiiciipants of this study.. Most of the cases,, fiielld of study and year llevell of partiiciipants have a controll on the degree of behaviiorall change brought..

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Authors: Priya Keshari, Hari Shankar

Hypertension has emerged as the most prevalent silent killer and serious public health issue. It is recognized to be disease which is consequence of poor dietary habits and lack of physical activity. Hence this study is attempted to know the risk factors that may cause of high blood pressure. Objective: To assess the behavioural risk factors related to hypertension. Material and Method: A cross sectional study was conducted and 155 study subjects > 40 years of age group were screened. Structured schedule was used for data collection. Two independent BP readings were taken in sitting position by visiting each participant at their home. Percentage, proportion and chi square test were applied to find out statistical significance. Result: The overall prevalence of hypertension was found 24.5% while out of 155 respondents 25.4% male and 23.8% female were found to be hypertensive.31.2% hypertensive were aged 60 years and above.27.3% hypertensive subjects were belonged upper class. Subjects chewing any type of tobacco found to be more (27.3%) hypertensive. Subjects with high BMI (23.7%) obese were found hypertensive. Conclusion: Present study concluded that physical activity with hypertension was found to be statistically significant. Increased trend of hypertension with increasing age was observed but it was statistically not significant.

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Authors: SC Mohapatra, A Mohapatra

Research question: What are the patterns, perception and determinants of the health seeking behavior of the patients attending the out-patient department (OPD) of Primary Health Centres (PHC) Objectives: (a) To determine the common motivators for the OPD attendees to come to the PHC for health services, (b) To estimate the number of days of suffering the patients endure for the current morbidity before they attend the OPD of the studied PHCs for the first time.(c)To identify the health care set-ups the study subjects had visited before attending the OPD of the studied PHCs for the first time. Study design: Cross-sectional study. Study location: Districts Varanasi and Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh Material and methods: Post-consultation exit-polls were conducted with the OPD attendees of 30 PHCs (includes mother and additional PHCs) of districts Varanasi and Sonbhadra on randomly selected working days over a period of 6 months using a semi-structured questionnaire. A total of 21422 patients were interviewed. Results: Majority (52.3%) stated either proximity of the PHC to their homes or cheaper costs of treatment or both as the main reason why they visited the PHC OPD. About 40% of the PHC attendance was formed by people who had the disease onset within the past 3 days. Sixty percent of the patients had come directly to the PHC for consultation without going elsewhere or trying any self-medication. Around 50% of the patients were found happy with the OPD services. Conclusion: The health seeking behavior patterns and determinants have not changed much over the years. Demand for care and availability of services seemingly form mutually dependent parameters. Thus, these should not be studied in exclusion.

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Authors: Janmejay Pradhan, Ravi Ranjan & Anjali Samal

Automation Trust is created when human operator interacts with machines. It is more obvious when machines work in automation more. Operators interact and at times machines fails to take decision on their own and require human intervention. Reaction Time (RT) acts a predictor of trust. This paper has tried to study the relationship between trust and reaction in two conditions i.e. 90% reliability condition and 25% reliability condition. The result reveals that, there is a high RT in former condition vis-à-vis latter condition.

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Authors: Seema Singh

The Journal of Community Health Management is a peer reviewed journal and an official publication of Innovative Publications. The journal publishes papers, original research articles, editorials on Preventive Medicine, Community Health, Health Management, Health Statistics, Biostatics, Nutrition, Epidemiology and Health Services Research. All correspondence to the Journal be made to the Chief Editor, The Journal of Community Health Management (JCHM).