Publications by authors named "Sadhana Awasthi"
Background: One of the most serious public health issues in India is reproductive tract infections (RTIs), which have a profound effect on the lives of men and women, as well as their families and communities.
Objectives: To describe the sociodemographic traits, assess women's RTI knowledge, and determine which behavioral risk factors are involved in female RTI.
Methods: Using a 30-cluster sampling approach, a cross-sectional study design was employed to examine RTIs in 30 villages located in the Haldwani block of the district Nainital.
Introduction: Pregnant females are considered as a high-risk group for the prevention and control of various communicable diseases. Therefore, this research was undertaken to study the clinic-epidemiological profile and biochemical parameters of COVID-19-positive pregnant females in a tertiary care hospital.
Methods: This hospital-based retrospective study was done on COVID-19-positive pregnant females admitted during April 2020-March 2021.
Background: Anxiety is graded as the sixth major contributor to nonfatal health loss worldwide and is included in the top ten causes of years lived with disability. National Mental Health Survey 2015-2016 too reported the prevalence of anxiety spectrum disorders as 3.5%, and way higher among females than males.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Once a device for telecommunication, now a powerful device bringing the whole world in one's palm, smartphones are increasingly becoming a common commodity among the medical students. Smartphones foster social interaction and facilitate multitasking and learning, but they also have some adverse effects. Young people, especially students, who are always inquisitive towards new technology, are likely to be affected by both these positive and negative impacts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: First aid assistance is one of the important life-saving skills. According to World Health Organization, over 50 million people are injured or disabled and over 1.2 million people die following Road Traffic Accident (RTA) every year.
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- Tuberculosis (TB) is a significant health issue in India, and the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) aims to eliminate it by 2025, emphasizing the need for patient knowledge about the disease as it relies on passive case finding.* -
- A study conducted in Uttarakhand assessed the knowledge of 111 pulmonary TB patients, revealing that only 43.2% understood TB is caused by germs, while 65% had good overall knowledge about the disease.* -
- The findings indicate that a substantial number of PTB patients lack sufficient knowledge about TB, prompting the need for a culturally sensitive health education system and consideration for shifting from passive to active case finding strategies.*
Context: Chronic stress, if not appropriately addressed, can cause a variety of mental health disorders. In patriarchal societies like India, little is known about the coping mechanisms used by homemakers to deal with stress in their lives.
Aim: To identify usual coping mechanisms used by the homemakers residing in Kumaon region, India, to deal with stress in their day-to-day lives.