International Journal of Research in Health Sciences

2-8

Authors: Raghotham Reddy K1, Sashidhar B2

Background: Television viewing is a boon/bane is an ongoing controversy. Though it is an important current area of research, studies in this aspect are limited. To fill up the lacunae in the current knowledge in this regard, the present study has been undertaken with the following objectives. Aims: To study the television viewing habits among high school children, to know the beneficial and harmful effects of television viewing. Settings and Design: Khammam Town, cross sectional study. Methods and Material: 450 children in between 13 and 15 years of age, of both sex, studying in different schools were selected in Khammam town by simple random technique. Information was collected in a prestructured proforma by interview method. The data thus obtained was subjected for analysis by using appropriate statistical tests. Statistical analysis: Data was statistically analysed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). P value <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. Results: Out of 450 children 251 were Male and 199 were Female. Average time for TV viewing was 1.96 hours ± 1.0 /day with a range from 1 to 6 hours /day. Headache (12.6%), eye strains (11.5%), sleep disturbances (10.8%), neck pain (0.4%), nail biting (8.6%), etc were the health disturbances due to Television viewing. Conclusions: Duration of TV viewing had direct role in causing headache and eye strain; but it had no significant effect on sleep disturbances and school performance.

15-22

Authors: Raghotham Reddy K1, Rao AR2, Chandrasekhar Reddy B3

Technological advances have advanced Medicare to new heights. This is both a boon and a bane. It is a boon to those who can pay and a bane for poverty riddled families. The private enterprise has initiated health schemes targeting the white collars and premiums that are beyond the reach of Below Poverty Line (BPL). An innovative and first of its kind program, the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) having its impetus and focus on BPL families.

28-33

Authors: B.Sidda Naik1, Sushma2, Shankar Reddy Dudala3

The role of ocular injuries in causation of blindness has been a subject of immense importance and will remain so because of the rapid industrialization and mechanized farming which is coining up in our country. Cross-sectional observational study. Patients attending the outpatient Department of Ophthalmology, SVRRGG Hospital, Tirupathi with a history of Ocular Trauma. A total of 187 patients with mechanical eye injuries have been enrolled. In the present study, 73.8% were male and 26.2% were female. 56.1% belonged to 15-45 year age group. In both male (56.5%) and female (55.1%) maximum number of ocular injury cases were from 15-45 year age group. 70.1% were from urban area and 29.9% were from rural area.