Workplace Breastfeeding Support and Breastfeeding Practices among Healthcare Professionals.

Introduction: Working mothers face striking challenges in breastfeeding. It is important to focus on them to further improve breastfeeding rates.

Aim And Objectives: To assess the workplace breastfeeding support and breastfeeding practices of healthcare professionals.

Prevalence and Predictors of Risk Factors for Noncommunicable Diseases among women in an Urbanized Village of India.

Background: The burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors among the underprivileged women of the urban areas are expected to increase. The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence and sociodemographic predictors of these risk factors.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 370 women between 25 and 64 years in an urbanized village of India.

Socio-demographic features and quality of life post burn injury.

Introduction: Burn injury is a highly devastating injury accounting for the major cause of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost mostly in developing countries. Physical trauma, body disfigurement, the social stigma associated with injury completely shatter an individual's life.

Aim: To study the quality of life among burn injury patients.

Assessment of Weekly Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation with and without Health Education on Anemia in Adolescent Girls: A Comparative Study.

Background: Iron deficiency is the most common and widespread nutritional disorder in the world, affecting a large number of children and women in developing countries and constituting a public health condition of epidemic proportions. Weekly iron and folic acid supplementation (WIFS) with health education has been demonstrated to be effective in reducing anemia in adolescent school going girls. We assessed the impact of WIFS with and without health education on anemia in adolescent school girls of Delhi.

Module to facilitate self-directed learning among medical undergraduates: Development and implementation.

Context: Currently, self-directed learning (SDL) is emphasized in medical institutions all over the world. The skills of SDL enable one to be a lifelong learner, a necessity to cope up with fast-expanding medical knowledge.

Aims: This study aims to develop and implement an "SDL" module for medical undergraduates and find out their perception about the same.

Menstrual patterns and problems in association with body mass index among adolescent school girls.

Background: Menstruation is a normal physiological phenomenon for females indicating her capability for procreation. Menstrual problems are common in adolescent girls, which may affect their life and outdoor activities. Adolescent girls with abnormal body mass index (BMI) suffer even more often.

Internet addiction and its mental health correlates among undergraduate college students of a university in North India.

Introduction: Internet addiction (IA) is an emerging phenomenon among the youth of India. It has been found to be associated with mental health problems. This study was therefore conducted to find out the burden of IA among college students in Delhi, its risk factors and association with depression, anxiety, and stress.

A Study of Emotional Intelligence Among Postgraduate Medical Students in Delhi.

Context: The importance of emotional intelligence (EI) in the successful practice of medicine has been well established. However, efforts to study the same in India, especially in doctors and medical students, are lacking. This study has measured the emotional intelligence of postgraduate medical students in Delhi and aimed to identify some of the factors affecting it.

Determinants of delay in initiating post-exposure prophylaxis for rabies prevention among animal bite cases: hospital based study.

Background: India is highly endemic for rabies. Although fatal, rabies is a preventable disease. Several factors interfere with the timely utilization of post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) in the population.

A Study of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Epidemic Among Health Care Providers of a Medical College Hospital of Delhi.

Background: Influenza viruses cause annual epidemics and occasional pandemics that have claimed the lives of millions. Understanding the role of specific perceptions in motivating people to engage in precautionary behavior may help health communicators to improve their messages about outbreaks of new infectious disease generally and swine flu specifically.

Objectives: To study the knowledge and practices of health care providers regarding swine flu and to study the attitudes and practices of health care providers toward the prevention of the swine flu epidemic.

Evaluation of computer usage in healthcare among private practitioners of NCT Delhi.

Objectives: 1. To evaluate the usage and the knowledge of computers and Information and Communication Technology in health care delivery by private practitioners. 2.

Impact of a multi-method promotional package on awareness and knowledge about STD and AIDS among the trainees of an industrial training institute in a resettlement colony of Delhi, India.

To design and apply a multi-method promotional package for enhancing awareness and knowledge on STD and AIDS among ITI trainees, and evaluate its impact, an intervention study, using pre and post assessment of the subjects for comparison was carried out. The study was carried out in the Industrial Training Institute (ITI), in a resettlement colony of Delhi. Urethral/vaginal discharge, genital ulcer and pain on micturition were identified as symptoms of STD by a significantly higher number of respondents in the post package sample.