Screening of Colour Vision in Paediatric Population

The descriptive cross-sectional study was done to screen the children attending paediatric OPD of Saveetha Medical College and Hospital for colour vision deficiency and to find out the overall prevalence of CVD and compare the prevalence rate among males and females. One hundred seventy-five children in the age group 4 – 12 years attending paediatric OPD of Saveetha Medical College and Hospital were taken up for the study. Visual acuity and colour vision test using the Ishihara chart was conducted for all the children. Results were tabulated and statistically analysed. It was noted that 7 (4.14%) children were found to be colour deficient. Out of which 6 (7.68%) and 1 (1.10%) were Male and Female children respectively, Considering the religion, the higher prevalence of colour vision deficiency was found among Muslim children 4(14.8%) as compared to Hindu 2 (2.1%) and Christian 1 (2.1%) children. Early diagnosis of this defect helps them in minimising the potential problems they face in their everyday life, and enable them to make adaptive strategies to improve the quality of life and most importantly helps them in choosing appropriate professional choice in their career and creating awareness through education. Medical counselling will improve to reduce the occurrence of Colour Vision disorder.

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OSCE: An Effective Tool of Assessment for Medical Students

10.53350/pjmhs211582235 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (8) ◽

pp. 2235-2239

Author(s):

Farrukh Sarfraz ◽

Fahad Sarfraz ◽

Imran Jawad ◽

Mohammad Zia-Ul-Miraj ◽

Rizwan Zafar Ahmad ◽

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Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Time Allocation ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Clinical Skills ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Clinical Competencies ◽

Medical College ◽

Data Collection Procedure

Background: To assess the competency of a student different tools are used. Since its introduction in 1975 by Dr. Harden and his team, OSCE has gained tremendous strides to assess the clinical competencies. Since 1975 onward OSCE has been very successfully used to assess the clinical competencies of medical student globally. OSCE is an assessment tool in which student is observed for performance of different tasks at specified stations. In the current study perception of medical students about OSCE examination was done which shall give room for positive criticism and further improvement of the system where ever required. Objective: To expedite view of final year MBBS students of Azra Naheed College about OSCE Material and Method Study design: Quantitative, cross sectional study. Settings: Azra Naheed College, Lahore. Duration: Six months i.e. 1st July2020 to 31st December 2020 Data Collection procedure: After an informed consent and appropriate briefing, the questionnaire was distributed among the final year medical students of Azra Naheed Medical College. Questionnaire developed by Russell et al was used. Results: Out of 148 students who participated in the study, 66(45%) students were females and 82(55%) were male. Majority of the students were satisfied with the quality of the exam. Consensus about the quality of exam was that, 29.7% were aware about the nature of the exam, 52.7% were satisfied that the syllabus taught was asked in the exam, 58.1% were satisfied about the time allocation for each station. Majority i.e. 60% considered OSCE an exam of practical nature which is not biased by gender or ethnicity. More than 50% of the students were satisfied with the standard of the exam. At the same time more than 50% students considered essay exam the easiest format of assessment. However, OSCE was considered to be fairest form of assessment 73%. 68.9% perceived that learning is enhanced by MCQs rather than other formats of assessment. Conclusion: To conclude this study, it is very much clear that the perception of students about OSCE as an assessment tool was very encouraging, as it not only provided them the opportunity to highlight their weaknesses but also helped them to perform well in the exam, manage time during exam and to overcome them stress which influenced their results. Key words: OSCE, Objective, Examinations, Clinical skills, qualitative analysis

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A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study to Estimate the Prevalence and Sex Distribution of Colour Vision Deficiency among School Going Children Attending a Tertiary Eye Care Center in Kolkata City, West Bengal, India

Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare ◽

10.18410/jebmh/2021/541 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (32) ◽

pp. 2962-2967

Author(s):

Rinki Saha ◽

Indrajit Sarkar ◽

Tamojit Chatterjee ◽

Sandip Samaddar ◽

Suman Chandra Sen

Keyword(s):

School Children ◽

Colour Vision ◽

Care Center ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Sex Distribution ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Colour Vision Deficiency ◽

Cone Pigments ◽

Normal Colour ◽

Colour Blindness

BACKGROUND Colour vision is a function of three types of cone pigments present in the retina. Colour vision deficiency is an important disorder of vision that may pose a handicap to the performance of an affected individual. The prevalence of colour blindness varies in different geographical areas. The identification and estimation of the prevalence of colour vision deficiency in school-going children will help to educate and guide the caregivers to help the children in selecting their profession. This study was done to estimate the prevalence, sex distribution, and types of colour vision deficiency among school-going children of 5 to 15 years. METHODS A cross-sectional observational study was done among 500 students to evaluate the colour vision during the period from 1st January 2018 to 30th June 2019 at the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Kolkata. Ishihara’s pseudo isochromatic colour vision chart 38th edition was used to assess the school children for colour vision status. The children who were found to be colour blind were further classified into degree and types of colour vision deficiency. RESULTS A total of 500 students (250 male & 250 female) of surrounding schools, in the age group of 5 years to 15 years, were screened. 480 students (96 %) had normal colour vision while 20 (4 %) students were found to have defective colour vision. Prevalence (4 %) for colour blindness was found to be higher in males (3.6 %) than females (0.4 %). It was observed that out of 20 (4 %) colour-blind subjects 3.6 % were protanopes and 0.4 % were deuteranopes. CONCLUSIONS The present study shows the prevalence of colour blindness found to be quite low (4 %) and more common in males (3.6 %) in comparison to females (0.4 %). Protanomaly (3.6 %) was more common than deuteranomaly (0.4 %). KEYWORDS Colour Blindness, Protanomaly, Deuteranomaly, School Children

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Patients’ Satisfaction on Services of Border Guard Hospital, Guimara, Bangladesh

Journal of Armed Forces Medical College Bangladesh ◽

10.3329/jafmc.v15i1.48632 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 13-15

Author(s):

Md Abdul Wahab ◽

Farzana Zafreen ◽

Mohsen Uddin Ahmed ◽

Md Habibur Rahman ◽

Md Abdur Razzak

Keyword(s):

Service Providers ◽

Armed Forces ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Professional Services ◽

Waiting Room ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Medical College ◽

Patients Satisfaction ◽

Attitude Behavior

Introduction: Patients’ satisfaction is one of the established yard sticks to measure success of the hospitals. To improve the quality of services, health organizations use patient satisfaction survey to evaluate their processes delivered. A satisfied patient is more likely to develop a deeper and longer lasting relationship with their medical service providers, leading to improved compliance, continuity of care, and ultimately better outcomes. Objectives: To assess the patients satisfaction with services provided and the infrastructure facilities of Border Guard Hospital, Guimara (BGHG), of Khagrachari district Bangladesh. Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross sectional study was conducted among the patients who attended the outpatient department of BGHG from January to December 2017. Total 1340 patients aged more than 18 years, irrespective of sex, having no serious complications and willing to participate were selected by convenient sampling. Data were collected by semi-structured questionnaire by face to face interview and analyzed by SPSS 21.0. Results: Out of 1340 respondents 53.7% were serving BGB members, 18.3% were BGB families and 28.0% respondents were local residents. Majority of the patients stated that the general basic facilities at the hospital were adequate. Regarding cleanliness 94.7%, waiting room sitting facilities 91.9%, drinking water availability 88.4%, lighting arrangement 96.7%, ventilation arrangement 88.1% and toilet facilities 91.1% respondents reported that the hospital facilities were adequate. Most of the respondents were satisfied with the quality of professional services by all type of staffs of the hospital. Highest 84.9% of the respondents were satisfied with doctors’ attitude, behavior and cooperation. About other staffs; 72.9% respondents were satisfied with attitude, behavior and cooperation of nurses, 71.9% with pharmacists, 71.1% with registration clerk, 75.3%, with information desk, 70.2% with guards and 73.8% with supporting staffs. Conclusion: Patients attended at BGHG was highly satisfied about the infrastructure and the services provided the hospital. But few percentages of patients expressed their dissatisfaction. BGHG authority should keep it up and try to improve further. Journal of Armed Forces Medical College Bangladesh Vol.15 (1) 2019: 13-15

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Awareness of colour blindness among nurses

International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences ◽

10.26452/ijrps.v11ispl4.4357 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (SPL4) ◽

pp. 1694-1702

Author(s):

Anuradha P ◽

Madhumitha S S

Keyword(s):

Colour Vision ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Human Beings ◽

Inherited Disorders ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Colour Vision Deficiency ◽

Institutional Review ◽

Colour Blindness ◽

Ethical Clearance ◽

Structured Questionnaire

The primary aim of this study is to find the awareness of colour blindness among 100 nurses in a hospital. Colour blindness or colour vision deficiency is the decreased ability to see and distinguish colours. It is one of the most common inherited disorders in human beings. It can also be acquired. It occurs due to the disorder or defect in the development of one or more of the three sets of colour sensing cones of the eye. There is no cure for colour vision deficiency. This study is a hospital-based descriptive cross-sectional study. Ethical clearance for the study was obtained from the institutional review board. A structured questionnaire on awareness of colour blindness was prepared. This was given to 100 nurses in the hospital. The data obtained were analysed with the help of a statistician. The result was that the nurses knew what colour blindness is, but they did not know much about the aetiology, transmission, treatment of the disorder. The nurses should be made more aware of colour blindness.

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Writing a Feedback

10.53350/pjmhs2115123545 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (12) ◽

pp. 3545-3546

Author(s):

Farrukh Sarfraz ◽

Nadeem Razaq ◽

Fahad Sarfraz ◽

Sadia Ikram ◽

Saima Rubab Khan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Academic Writing ◽

Positive Attitude ◽

Peer Feedback ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Medical College ◽

Validated Questionnaire ◽

State Of Mind ◽

Strongly Agree

Introduction: Writing or composing has been seen an issue to several of undergraduates students, composing has been the most difficult micro skill of all times. Feedback plays an essential part in composing process. Considering the issues in composing classes, the point of this study was to see at a planning procedure through which language learners can make self-confidence, be impelled, advance the quality of publication, secure communications through composing and taking after feedbacks. Objective: To investigate the purpose of students’ attitude towards peer-feedback and facilitator feedback. Materials and Methods: Study design: Quantitative cross sectional Settings: Azra Naheed Medical College Duration: Six months i.e. 1st January 2021 to 30th June 2021 Methodology: This is quantitative cross sectional study conducted in the medical undergraduate’s students at Azra Naheed medical college Lahore. Total participants were 200 selected after taking the informed consent. Students have an idea of giving and receiving feedback. A validated questionnaire was circulated to elicit students thought about the effectiveness regarding feedback in academics. The data was entered an analyzed using SPSS version 23. Results: Results revealed maximum students showed positive attitude. As collectively 3% students are strongly disagree, 14% are disagree, 17.5% are neutral, 38% are agree and 17.5% are strongly agree. Conclusion: The main issue in this study was to explore participants state of mind towards peer and teacher-feedback. This study showed that medical students showed positive attitude towards giving and receiving peer feedback. Most of the participants may consider that facilitators composed observations have fruitful technique to move forward the quality of their writing. Likely since they acknowledged that facilitators had more data. Consequently, this study help the participants to think fundamentally rather than living in anxiety and it has been only due to the facilitator’s feedback. Keywords: feedback, writing, peer feedback, academic writing

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Assessment of knowledge on pharmacotherapeutics among undergraduate medical students in a South Indian medical college

International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology ◽

10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20202952 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. 1119

Author(s):

Surekha Palacherla ◽

Bheemesh Naidu Mattam ◽

Kodanda Ramu Burli ◽

Sachidananda Moorthy

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Undergraduate Medical Students ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Therapy Assessment ◽

Medical College ◽

South Indian ◽

Rational Drug

Background: Pharmacotherapeutics knowledge is important for rational drug therapy. Assessment of knowledge on emergency and non-emergency medical conditions in medical students will be helpful to develop a methodological approach in building knowledge on patient care and in improving quality of medical education.Methods: It was a questionnaire based cross- sectional study conducted among undergraduate medical students in MIMS college after taking Institutional ethical committee permission. The students of final MBBS part-I and final MBBS part-II and house surgeons were given semi-structured questionnaires. It constitutes questions on awareness of pharmacotherapeutics of non-emergency (20) and emergency (8) medical conditions.Results: Received a total of 284 responses, of them 43.32%, 39.43% and 17.25% are from final MBBS part-I, final MBBS part-II and house surgeons respectively. 48.1% students agreed that undergraduate training sufficient to confidently give a safe prescription to the patient. The overall knowledge of the students in pharmacotherapeutics relating to certain non-emergency conditions is found to be 64.89% and relating to emergency conditions, it is 62.98%.Conclusions: Knowledge on emergency and non-emergency PT is moderate. Appropriate training programs are needed to improve this situation. Regular evaluative measures also help to overcome the present situation.

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Prevalence of Dunning Kruger effect in first year medical students in a tertiary care hospital

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20214260 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (11) ◽

pp. 5283

Author(s):

Novonil Deb ◽

Poulami Roy

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Tertiary Care ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

First Year ◽

Care Hospital ◽

Metacognitive Skills ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Medical College ◽

First Year Medical Students

Background: Dunning Kruger (DK) effect refers to overestimation of one’s ability which is attributed to their inadequacy of metacognitive skills i.e., the low-performing individuals are often nescient of their incompetence which leads them to reach fallacious conclusions and make regrettable choices. Objectives of the study were to assess the degree of DK effect among the first-year medical students and to compare the associated socio-economic variables.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among the interested first-year medical students of North Bengal medical college and hospital from March 2021 to April 2021 using a questionnaire. Responses were recorded in Microsoft excel 2017, analysed, and presented in form of tables and charts following principles of descriptive statistics.Results: The overall prevalence of DK effect was found to be 78.38% among the first-year medical students. Higher prevalence was observed among females (80.28%) as compared to males (75%). Students having low study hours (79.13%), no academic achievements (77.5%), and greater hours of sleep (79.74%) manifested more predisposition to DK effect.Conclusions: In our research, we have noticed a higher DK effect among the first-year medical students, which might hamper the quality of treatment and patient care in the future. Proper orientation and counselling methods are required to overcome this phenomenon.

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A study using psoriasis knowledge assessment questionnaire in psoriasis affected patients

IP Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dermatology ◽

10.18231/j.ijced.2021.054 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 280-283

Author(s):

N. Ashok Kumar ◽

Shreya Srinivasan ◽

Duttala Indira Reddy ◽

Sivaramakrishnan Sangaiah

Keyword(s):

Chronic Disease ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Climatic Conditions ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Medical College ◽

Ethical Committee Approval ◽

Patient Will ◽

Study Population

Psoriasis is a chronic disease, which is potentially controllable but cannot be cured. Treatment is long term and requires continuous effort by the patient. Patient education is important for a chronic disease like psoriasis and this involves acquiring knowledge about the disease. With knowledge gained, the patient will be able to cope better with improved decision making and comply with treatment. To assess the knowledge about psoriasis in patients diagnosed with psoriasis attending skin outpatient department (OPD) of Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai. This was a cross sectional study, which was conducted at dermatology OPD in Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai 2021 after ethical committee approval. About 80 patients with psoriasis attending OPD were included in study to whom questionnaire with sixteen questions was asked and data was collected and analysed. A total of 80 individuals were included in this study, out of which 43 were males and 37 were females .79% of study population answered that psoriasis is a long life disease. About 75% and 71% of patients answered that climatic conditions and stress aggravates psoriatic lesions respectively. Results were taken from various questions asked in survery and tabulated. The results of the present study suggest that an educational intervention may be helpful in improving the knowledge, give psychological relief to patients with psoriasis and improves quality of their life .

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Quality of life of students of a private medical college

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences ◽

10.12669/pjms.36.2.668 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Yasir Aziz ◽

Ahmad Yar Khan ◽

Iqra Shahid ◽

Muhammad Athar Majeed Khan ◽

Aisha Aisha

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

World Health ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

World Health Organization Quality ◽

Medical College ◽

Creative Commons ◽

Extra Curricular Activities ◽

Health Organization

Objective: To determine the quality of life of students of a private medical college in Karachi in Pakistan. Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted among 217 medical students of Liaquat College of Medicine and Dentistry, Karachi from June 2017 to March 2018. Students were selected by a stratified sampling method and the World Health Organization Quality of Life BREF Instruments (WHO QOL-BREF) was used for the above-mentioned study. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) version 21 and Analysis of variance (ANOVA). Independent t-test was used as p <0.05 significant. Results: A total of 250 questionnaires were distributed among 2nd year, 3rd year, 4th year and final year students and the response rate was 86.8%. Among them 48.5% (n=105) students were male and 51.5% (n=112) students were female, while 9.2% (n=20) students were currently ill and the other 90.8% (n=197) were healthy. Conclusion: Medical education influences the quality of life (QOL) of students adversely. Social relationships and environmental domain were satisfactory in private medical institutes whereas physical and psychological progress was low due to academic load which requires improvement either by physical activities such as fitness classes or other extra-curricular activities. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.2.668 How to cite this:Aziz Y, Khan AY, Shahid I, Khan MA, Aisha. Quality of life of students of a private medical college. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(2):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.2.668 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Knowledge, attitude and behaviour study on urticaria patients towards urticaria and diet

International Journal of Research in Dermatology ◽

10.18203/issn.2455-4529.intjresdermatol20214208 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (6) ◽

pp. 822

Author(s):

Geo Celestin Danny ◽

Suzsmi Saravanan Latha ◽

Sane Roja Renuka ◽

Manoharan Dhanraj ◽

Tanjore Venkaswamy Ramesh

Keyword(s):

Food Additives ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Lifestyle Modifications ◽

Trigger Factors ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Medical College ◽

Vasoactive Mediators ◽

Behaviour Study ◽

Patients Experience

Background: Urticaria (‘hives’ or ‘nettle rash’) consists of blanchable, erythematous, edematous papules or wheals. These wheals vary in size from 1 mm to many centimetres, and are usually very itchy. They are caused by vasoactive mediators, predominantly histamine, released from mast cells. In majority of cases, the wheals are transient, lasting for only a few hours in any one place, but with new wheals appearing in other places. The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and behaviour towards urticaria and diet among patients.Methods: A cross sectional study was done among urticarial patients visiting DVL OPD at Sree Balaji medical college and hospital using self-reported questionnaire from January to February 2021. Questionnaire was designed in manner that general population can understand and was distributed randomly irrespective of gender. Sample size of 50 was taken.Results: The results of the study revealed that most of the patient had the knowledge about urticaria and were aware about their trigger factors. Regarding behaviour most of the patients were ready to do lifestyle modifications. Regarding attitude urticarial patient had no problems mingling with the normal people.Conclusions: Urticaria is a relapsing condition with impact on quality of life. Specific elimination diets have observed high rates of response after a duration of 3 weeks. It has been confirmed that some patients experience worsening of symptoms after ingestion of foods including food additives as well as foods such as tomatoes, herbs, seafood, alcohol, and others.

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