scholarly journals Effect of Cellphone on Quality of Life among Medical Students; A Cross-sectional Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-81
Author(s):  
Kiran Khan ◽  
Ata ur Rehman ◽  
Ghazala Nasim Pasha ◽  
Syeda Laraib Fayyaz ◽  
Muhammad Aslam Bhatti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Screen Time ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medical Undergraduates

Aims: The aim of the current study is to find out the quality of life among the medical undergraduates who are addicted to cellphone use. Study Design: Cross-sectional study Place and Duration of Study: Study was conducted in private and public sector medical and dental colleges of Karachi from January 2019 to September 2019. Methodology: The data had been collected through a set of questionnaire, which was pre-designed. Those students were included who were using smartphones for pleasure, communication or study purpose The data was entered into the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22. For numerical variables mean with standard deviation were calculated and for categorical variables frequency and percentages were calculated. Results: The mean age of the students surveyed was found to be 21.2 ±1.82 years. Majority of our research candidates were addicted to cell phone use. It was noted that more than 6 hours’ screen time daily was 29.75% while very unfortunate observation of less than 1-hour screen time was found in 6.25% of study participants. About 38.25% of our participants although addicted to screens agreed that this addiction is causing them to ignore their important things like study or family. Cell phone addiction is worsening day by day as 37.5% medical students confessed that they feel stressed when they do not use cell phones. About 76.75% medical students despite of being addicted to screens, confessed that this is causing them different health and social problems which they feel should be removed just by giving lesser time to the applications. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the medical undergraduates who are addicted to their cellphones, having poor quality of life which is negatively affecting their health as well as their studies. There is a need to accept the problem and find out the best solution for it. Students should be aware of the effects of cellphone addiction on the quality of life.

scholarly journals Cross-sectional study of quality of life impairment of adult female acne patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehiaghe L Anaba ◽  
Motunsope Olufolakemi Cole-Adeife
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Adult Female ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Acne Vulgaris ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Adult Females

The effect of acne vulgaris on the quality of life of adult females is not readily documented nor the factors that impair quality of life in these adult females. The aim of this study was to document quality of life impairment and the factors that affect this quality of life in adult female acne patients. The study was a prospective cross sectional study of 56 adult female acne patients aged 25 years and above. Socio-demographic data, clinical examination were documented with a study proforma. Quality of life was assessed using Cardiff Acne Disability Index (CADI). Data was analysed using SPSS version 22. Mean of independent groups were compared using Students ‘t’ test while Chi squared test was used to compare categorical variables. For all statistical tests, P value <0.05 was adjudged to be significant. The mean age of the participants was 33.4± 8.2 and mean CADI was 6.6±3.8, minimum CADI was 2 and maximum was 15. Quality of life impairment was mild, moderate and severe in 35.7%, 37.5% and 26.8% respectively. The items affected in the CADI index were questions about “Perception of how bad pimples were,” “Feelings about appearance of skin,” and “Aggression, frustration and embarrassment.” Factors associated with quality of life impairment were age, post inflammatory hyperpigmentation, presence of scarring. Quality of life is impaired by acne in adult females. This impairment is made worse by age, presence of scarring and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation and not marital status, level of education and a family history of acne.

scholarly journals Quality of life of the HIV patients in Agra: a cross sectional study

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1869
Author(s):  
Sunil K. Meena ◽  
Sunil K. Misra ◽  
Shailendra S. Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Hiv Patients ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Modifiable Factors

Background: With antiretroviral therapy (ART) for human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) coming into picture, quality of life (QOL) has gained importance. Knowledge on the factors affecting QOL would be helpful in making important policy decisions and health care interventions. The aim of this study is to assess the quality of life of people living with HIV and to identify the factors influencing their QOL.Methods: The Cross-sectional study was done among 160 HIV patients registered with ART Centre, at SNMC Agra (UP), India. QOL was assessed using HIV specific WHOQOLHIV-BREF questionnaire which has six domains. Association were find out by using chi square test for categorical variables and ANOVA were used for comparisons means scores among continuous variables. Correlation between continuous quantitative variables was found out by Pearson correlation coefficient.Results: Mean age of the study subjects was 37.89 years and 61.2% of the participants were males. Quality of life score was highest in level of independence domain (12.79±2.28) and lowest in SRPB domain (10.51±3.63). A significant negative correlation (-0.49) was observed between age and physical domain. Male Subjects had significant better mean score in social and environmental domain. Family support associated with social relationship and psychological domain. Higher CD4 count is associated with better in psychological and SRPB domain. Younger age, female gender, rural background, shorter duration of HIV, non-intake of ART were the high risk factors of poor QOL.Conclusions: Interventions such as ART, family, vocational and peer counselling would address these modifiable factors influencing QOL, thereby improving the QOL of PLWH.

scholarly journals Relationship between health literacy and quality of life among cancer survivors in China: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. e028458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Xia ◽  
Peng Wu ◽  
Qinglong Deng ◽  
Rui Yan ◽  
Renren Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cancer Rehabilitation ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

ObjectiveTo evaluate the association between health literacy (HL) and quality of life (QOL) among cancer survivors in China.DesignCross-sectional study in China.Setting and participantsThis is a cross-sectional observational study of 4589 cancer survivors aged 18 years and older from the Shanghai Cancer Rehabilitation Club. Participants were enrolled and completed the questionnaires between May and July 2017.MeasurementHL was assessed by three established screening questions and QOL was evaluated using the simplified Chinese version of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality-of-Life Questionnaire-Core 30 items. Answers to all questionnaires were collected through face-to-face interviews or through self-administered questionnaires for literate participants. Participants were excluded if they did not answer any one of the HL questions. Baseline characteristics were compared by levels of HL using χ2 test for categorical variables and Wilcoxon rank-sum test for non-normal continuous variables. The item response theory (IRT) was used to evaluate the existing measure of HL. Linear regression and logistic regression models were used to investigate the association between HL and QOL. SAS V.9.4 and MULTILOG V.7.03 were used in the analysis.ResultsThere were 4589 participants included in the study. The calculated results of IRT scale parameters of HL entries indicate that the entries have better discrimination and difficulty. Of the 4589 respondents, 159 (3.5%) had low HL. After adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics, treatment regimen and years with cancers, for each one-point decrement in HL score the QOL score increased by 2.07 (p<0.001). Cancer survivors with low HL were less likely than those with adequate HL to achieve better QOL. In logistic regression, low HL was independently associated with poor QOL (adjusted OR, 2.81; 95% CI 1.94 to 4.06; p<0.001).ConclusionsLow HL was independently associated with poor QOL among cancer survivors of the Shanghai Cancer Rehabilitation Club.

scholarly journals A Cross-sectional study on personality, coping strategies, and quality of life of undergraduate medical students

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
S Arumuganathan ◽  
T Sivailango ◽  
S SumithraDevi ◽  
P Ezhilarasi ◽  
S Usaid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Cross Sectional
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