Bridging knowledge gaps: impact of remedial classes on first-year medical students in biochemistry - a cross-sectional study.

Background: Remedial teaching is a tailored educational approach dedicated to enhancing the academic performance of students facing challenges within the curriculum. By identifying and addressing specific learning difficulties, it provides essential support and guidance to bring students closer to expected standards while preventing future setbacks. We hypothesize that underperforming medical students who receive daily, tailored remediation will demonstrate significant improvement in their formative and summative assessment scores in biochemistry.

Validation of a structured questionnaire to assess the perception and satisfaction of respiratory therapy students toward career prospects and learning resources.

Background: Respiratory therapy is an emerging profession that has existed in India since 1995. Respiratory therapy students will play a significant role in strengthening various aspects of healthcare in the future. There are no validated instruments to evaluate students' perceptions of their careers and satisfaction with the learning resources.

Effects of Yoga Versus Sham Yoga on Oxidative Stress, Glycemic Status, and Anthropometry in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Single-Blinded Randomized Pilot Study.

Studies have shown a beneficial role of yoga in tre a t i n g type 2 diabetes mellitus. The present study proceeds in the field by providing an active control. We aimed to evaluate the effect of 3 months of yoga on oxidative stress, glycemic status, and anthropometry in type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Assessment of fatigability, depression, and self-esteem among head-and-neck carcinoma patients in a tertiary care hospital in South India.

Background: Head and Neck Carcinoma (HNCs) are the most common form of cancer in India. Patients with head-and-neck carcinomas often suffer from various distressing symptoms. The exact cause of these symptoms, as to whether disease or treatment or other factor induced, needs to be established.

Antibiogram and genetic relatedness of clinical isolates of Enterococcus spp. in Mangalore, India.

Introduction: Drug-resistant Enterococcus species is a persisting clinical problem and may serve as a reservoir of resistant genes. The present study was undertaken in Mangalore, India to know the antibiogram and genetic relatedness of Enterococcus spp. isolated from clinical samples.

Development of a Modified Disability Questionnaire for Evaluating Disability Caused by Backache in India and Other Developing Countries.

Study Design: Prospective observational study.

Purpose: To evaluate the disability domains relevant to Indian patients with low backache and propose a modified disability questionnaire for such patients.

Overview Of Literature: The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) is a self-reported measurement tool that measures both pain and functional status and is used for evaluating disability caused by lower backache.

Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Yoga in Medical Students: Assessment of Anthropometry and Lifestyle Factors.

Medical students often experience significant stress during their undergraduate training. Evidence has shown short-term yoga to be effective in decreasing stress in students. This study aimed to assess knowledge about, attitude toward, and practice of (KAP) yoga among medical students.

Faculty Perception Towards a "Hybrid" Problem Based Learning Methodology.

This sequential quantitative and qualitative study was done to assess the perception of faculties towards a hybrid Problem Based Learning (PBL) methodology. To begin with, all faculty members of the department featured in a round of PBL facilitation. Later in phase I, their perception was assessed using a validated self-administered questionnaire.

Association between occupational history of exposure to tobacco dust and risk of carcinoma cervix: A case-control study.

Context: Cervical cancer is the second most common malignancy among women in India. There is thus a need to identify unexplored risk factors such as occupational exposure to tobacco dust to justify its increasing trend so as to recommend suitable preventive measures.

Aims: The aim was to study the association between occupational exposure to tobacco dust with development of carcinoma cervix.

Problem-Based Learning as an Effective Learning Tool in Community Medicine: Initiative in a Private Medical College of a Developing Country.

Background: Knowledge of community medicine is essential for health care professionals to function as efficient primary health care physicians. Medical students learning Community Medicine as a subject are expected to be competent in critical thinking and generic skills so as to analyze community health problems better. However, current teaching by didactic lectures fails to develop these essential skills.

Prevalence, risk factors and treatment practices in diarrhoeal diseases in south India.

Objectives: This study was done to determine the risk factors, management practices and awareness about diarrhoea.

Methods: It was a cross sectional study done in a semi urban and rural areas of South Canara district of India in February 2013. A total of 167 households (575 study population) chosen systematic randomly were visited and one adult member in each house was interviewed.

Fast Food Consumption Pattern and Its Association with Overweight Among High School Boys in Mangalore City of Southern India.

Context: Fast foods are quite popular among children owing to taste, appearance and hype created by mass media. However, the increased incidence of lifestyle disorders seen now-a-days at an early age could be attributed to fast foods.

Aim: This study was done to assess the awareness of health hazards, consumption pattern of fast foods and to find out its association with overweight among high school students.

Infant rearing practices in South India: a longitudinal study.

Background: Rearing practices are a major determinant of nutritional and health status of infants. Therefore these practices need to be better understood.

Objectives: To find out infant rearing practices in the study area.

Factors associated with morbidities among infants in three sub centre areas of belgaum district of South India: a longitudinal study.

Background: Health status of infants is a sensitive indicator of development and factors influencing it need to be better understood.

Objectives: This study was conducted to search for factors associated with morbidity among infants and to find out their influence on weight gain during infancy.

Materials And Methods: This longitudinal study was undertaken in south India from November 2004 till April 2006.

Treatment outcomes among new smear positive and retreatment cases of tuberculosis in Mangalore, South India - a descriptive study.

Background: India has the highest tuberculosis burden in the world. For successful implementation of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), treatment outcomes and factors which influence them need to be assessed on a regular basis. This study was thus done to find out the sputum conversion rates, treatment outcomes and sociodemographic factors of new smear positive cases (NSP) and retreatment cases of pulmonary tuberculosis of the Mangalore Tuberculosis Unit (TU) registered at the District Tuberculosis Centre (DTC), Mangalore.

Awareness of health personnel about lymphatic filariasis and mass drug administration in Karnataka state of South India.

Background: A third of world's filariasis cases occur in India. As a result Mass Drug Administration (MDA) was commenced in 1997 with the aim of eliminating this disease by 2015. However the coverage of MDA was not satisfactory.

A study of the knowledge and attitude towards pulse polio immunization in semi urban areas of South India.

Background: The government of India launched the pulse polio immunization (PPI) programme in 1995 with the aim of eradicating poliomyelitis by the end of 2000. Despite this, 733 children with polio were reported in 2009 alone. Therefore, there is a need to understand the reason underlying such high numbers of cases after so many years of programme implementation.