Attitude towards seeking professional help for mental health among medical students In Karachi, Pakistan.

In Pakistan, seeking help for mental health is considered a social stigma and a large number of medical students are suffering from mental health. This study aimed to investigate the attitude toward seeking professional care for mental health issues among medical students. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a total of 316 students selected through multistage stratified cluster sampling.

Utility of 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in potential living kidney donors.

Introduction: Hypertension (HTN) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease; therefore, it is imperative to risk stratify potential kidney donors during evaluation. Clinic blood pressure (CBP) measurement is inaccurate in assessing presence or absence of HTN. There is paucity of data about utility of 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) during kidney donor evaluation.

Assessment of psychiatric comorbidities and serotonergic or noradrenergic medication use on blood pressure using 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

In this study, the authors aimed to assess both nighttime and daytime blood pressure (BP) variability using 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) in persons with and without psychiatric conditions and with or without selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) or serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) treatment. In this retrospective study, patients who underwent psychiatric evaluation and ABPM within 6 months of each other between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2017 were identified using billing data. Participants were divided into three groups-participants with no psychiatric diagnosis and no psychiatric medicine (-Diagnosis/-Medication), those with psychiatric diagnosis and on SSRIs/SNRIs (+Diagnosis/+Medication), and psychiatric diagnosis but no psychiatric medications (+Diagnosis/-Medication).

Violence Against Health Care Providers: A Mixed-Methods Study from Karachi, Pakistan.

Background: Violence against health care providers (HCPs) remains a significant public health problem in developing countries, affecting their performance and motivation.

Objectives: To report the quantity and perceived causes of violence committed upon HCPs and identify strategies intended to prevent and de-escalate it.

Methods: This was a mixed-methods concurrent study design (QUAN-QUAL).

Future priorities of interns in public and private tertiary care hospitals of a mega city in a developing country.

Objective: To determine the future priorities of young medical doctors in tertiary care hospitals in a major urban centre.

Methods: This multi-centre cross-sectional study was conducted at four tertiary care hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan, from January to June 2015, and comprised medical interns. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted.