Publications by authors named "Pawan Parashar"
Article Synopsis
- - The study examines factors affecting truck drivers' attitudes towards condom use in India, identifying unsafe sex practices prevalent among this group.
- - Utilizing a validated questionnaire, researchers focused on five key factors: reliability, pleasure, stigma, embarrassment about negotiating condom use, and purchasing them, analyzing responses from 100 truck drivers.
- - Results indicate that younger drivers and those traveling shorter distances showed less positive attitudes towards condom use, highlighting a need for targeted educational interventions for these subgroups.
Background: Despite implementation of HIV prevention programmes for truck drivers in India, unsafe sex behavior among truck drivers has been documented.
Objective: The objective of this study was to assess knowledge about HIV Transmission and modes of prevention, pattern of condom use with high risk partners and explore the practice of unsafe sex and its risk factors among truck drivers.
Methods: This exploratory cross-sectional study design was conducted on a recruited convenient sample of 100 truck drivers above 18 years from March to May 2015.
Background: In today's world, use of Internet has become indispensable. Medical students have much to gain from the Internet technology that has revolutionized the medical field. There is a very rapid change in the way communication technology is being handled and our medical students should also be ready to embrace it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess the knowledge about hepatitis B among the medical, dental and nursing students of first year in Subharti University, a private medical university of North India.
Methods: A cross sectional institutional study was conducted among the first year students of medical, dental and nursing colleges of Subharti University. The total subjects studied were 250.