Vol. 6 No. 5 (2019): May 2019

Original Research Articles

• Effects of a nutrition education intervention on maternal nutrition knowledge, dietary intake and nutritional status among food insecure households in Kenya

  Teresia Mbogori, Mary Murimi

  1831-1837

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191798

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• Public knowledge of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in Tangail, Bangladesh: a cross-sectional survey

  Masuder Rahman, Shakila Akter, Fatama Tous Zohora, Abu Zaffar Shibly

  1838-1842

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191799

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• Physical activity and perceived barriers among doctors working in King Abdulaziz Hospital, Jeddah, 2018

  Eyad Khateeb, Turki AlKharji, Sulafa AlQutub

  1843-1852

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191553

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• Health education role in promoting mothers’ beliefs, knowledge and practice of exclusive breastfeeding among King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital population

  Hanin A. Shalaby, Rawan A. Obaid, Ruaa H. Alharthi, Malak M. Barayan, Noura S. Bagabas, Raghdh M. Battarjee, Noura A. Baroom, Mie A. Tallab

  1853-1862

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191615

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• Evaluation of initial and medium-term follow-up results of balloon aortic valvuloplasty in severe aortic valve stenosis in newborns, infants and children in Alexandria, Egypt

  Hani Mahmoud Adel

  1863-1868

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191616

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• A study on evaluating lipid profile of patients with diabetes mellitus

  M. Abdul Majid, M. Abdul Bashet, M. Estiar Rahman, M. Sabrina Moonajilin, M. Ruhul Furkan Siddique

  1869-1872

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191800

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• Knowledge and practices among primary school children regarding use of sanitary latrine in Kushtia municipality of Bangladesh

  Hasan Mahfuz Reza, Ashees Kumar Saha

  1873-1879

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191801

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• Misuse of topical corticosteroids in women in Hail region Saudi Arabia

  Shumoukh S. Alafnan, Shooq A. Alhussaini, Alya A. Alshammarie, Rasha S. Alshammari, Halima M. Elagib

  1880-1885

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191802

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• Delivery point immunization in tertiary care hospital in Eastern India and challenges

  Bharati Das, Puspanjali Khuntia, Lucy Das, Jayashree Pattnaik

  1886-1891

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191467

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• Prevalence of cancer among the urban and rural community of Surendranagar district, Gujarat

  Nitesh M. Patel, Pratik K. Jasani, Girija P. Kartha, Sweta N. Patel

  1892-1895

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191452

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• Impact of socio-demographic variables and morbid conditions on general health component of perceived health using SF-36 form

  Sanjeev K. Sharma, Atul K. Singh, Dharmendra K. Gupta, Shashi Saxena, Meenakshi Singh, Shyam B. Gupta

  1896-1900

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191451

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• A study on open air defecation practices among the population above 6 years in rural field practice area of Santhiram Medical College, Nandyal, Kurnool dist, Andhra Pradesh

  Venkateswarlu M.

  1901-1907

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191468

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• Do our medical undergraduates need to develop research skills? Assessing perceptions, attitudes and skills of medical undergraduates

  Neha A. Patel

  1908-1912

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191454

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• Premenstrual syndrome and its association with emotional dysregulation: a comparison between medical and non medical students

  Suganthi Selvarajan, Hiba Ajmal

  1913-1916

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191450

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• Hand hygiene knowledge among undergraduate medical students in Junagadh, Gujarat, India

  Krutarth R. Brahmbhatt, Kaushik K. Lodhiya

  1917-1922

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191449

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• Study on practice of physical activity among medical interns in a private medical college hospital in Chennai

  Ramkumar Boopathirajan, Aswathy Raveendran, Pavithra Ayyalusamy

  1923-1927

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191618

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• Pattern of internet use and prevalence of internet addiction among interns of a medical college in Kerala

  Paul Daniel

  1928-1932

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191508

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• Pattern of utilization of antenatal care services in a rural area of Tamil Nadu: a community based cross-sectional study

  Arun Sugumaran, Rajkumar Subramanian, Muthukumar Tharumaraj, Saravanan Vaithiyalingam

  1933-1937

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191486

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• Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding hepatitis B among medical students in a private medical college in Kochi

  Arun Jacob, Teena Mary Joy, Sreelakshmi Mohandas, Harsha Lais, Nimitha Paul

  1938-1942

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191552

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• Prevalence and socio-demographic status on kidney stone patients in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India

  Ram Prakash, Arunachalam ., Narayanasamy .

  1943-1947

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191614

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• Prognostic factors of outcome in adults with non-traumatic altered mental status presenting to emergency department

  Sheikh Hilal Ahmad, Wani A. Mushtaq, Tak Sajad

  1948-1953

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191554

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• A study on injection practice and its awareness among adults residing in the rural field practice area of a teaching hospital in South India

  Dinesh Kumar Ganesan, Hema Kairavi Rathinavelu, Rajan Rushender Chitharaj

  1954-1959

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191561

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• Knowledge, attitude and practices about rabies prophylaxis among medical officers

  Ashvini C. Jidge, Hemlata G. Rokade, Suresh K. Mangulikar

  1960-1964

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191539

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• Assessment of quality of life among elderly population of rural areas of Etawah district: a cross sectional study

  Priyanka Bansal, Anand M. Dixit, Pankaj K. Jain, Sandip K. Gupta, Prashant K. Bajpai, Jyoti Mehra

  1965-1969

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191617

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• Prevalence of substance abuse among adolescents of urban and rural community in Surendranagar district, Gujarat

  Pratik K. Jasani, Yadeepsinh M. Jadeja, Nitesh M. Patel, Dhara Y. Jadeja, Jayraj B. Shrimali, Shyamal K. Purani

  1970-1974

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191453

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• A study on incidence rate of dengue fever in rural area of Thiruvannamalai district

  Nagarani Ramachari, Vaithiyanathan Purushothaman

  1975-1977

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191803

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• Incidence, nature and causality assessment of cutaneous adverse reactions to cosmetics: a pilot study

  Fatma Al Mulla, Sathvik Belagodu Sridhar, Atiqulla Shariff, Ghada Abu Al Hassan

  1978-1983

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191804

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• Assessment of prevalence and knowledge, attitude and practice of tobacco consumption among school going adolescent boys in urban field practice area of medical college: a cross-sectional study

  Dhananjay Kumar Singh, Priyanka Kesarwani, Shivani Sinha, Vipul Kant Singh

  1984-1990

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191805

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• A sociodemographic profile of inmates of an old age home in North Maharashtra

  Rambadan Phoolchand Chauhan, Sunil Vitthalrao Patil

  1991-1995

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191806

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• A study on assessment of sleep quality amongst patients attending a rural hospital in Kancheepuram, Tamilnadu, India

  Vijayakrishnan Ganesan, Dinesh Kumar Ganesan, Gayatri Fulse, Jhara Shah

  1996-1998

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191807

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• Descriptive study on sleep quality and its associated factors among elderly in urban population: Chidambaram

  R. Gouthaman, R. Devi

  1999-2003

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191808

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• Does health seeking behaviour influences on quality of life of type II diabetes patients, an untouched area in diabetes, study done in JSS Hospital, Mysore

  Savitha Rani B. B., Praveen Kulkarni, Ashok N. C., Renuka M., Vinay K. S.

  2004-2009

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191809

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• Barefooted vs with footwear: functional mobility assessment on community dwelling elders

  Dhruv Dave, Payal Vashi

  2010-2016

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191810

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• Quantification of poor menstrual hygiene among women of reproductive age group in a slum of Kolkata

  Aparajita Dasgupta, Keya Roy, Lina Bandyopadhyay, Bobby Paul

  2017-2022

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191811

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• Health education as a tool to quit tobacco use among non-teaching staff in a medical college of North Karnataka: an interventional study

  Yogesh Kumar Shashikanth, Ankita Priydarshini

  2023-2027

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191812

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• Defining some potential nutritional determinants of obesity in adolescent population

  Amit Sohani, Chincholikar Sanjeev

  2028-2033

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191813

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• Nomophobia - mobile phone dependence, a study among students of a rural medical college

  Vanita V. Myakal, Vinod L. Vedpathak

  2034-2040

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191814

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• Harnessing mHealth to improve the diabetes screening and diagnosis rate in rural Indian settings: a learning from health systems initiative

  Akash Gajanan Prabhune, Aparna Manoharan, Murugan Arul

  2041-2046

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191815

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• Prevalence of accidents and poisoning due to household hazardous materials in a rural area of Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu

  Shree Ramanan Karunakaran, Logaraj Muthunarayanan, Balaji Ramraj

  2047-2051

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191816

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• Morbidity profile among housekeeping workers in a tertiary care hospital, South India

  Femina Jose, Catherin Nisha, Kerline Jerome, Jini Paul

  2052-2055

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191817

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• Assessment of under nutrition using composite index of anthropometric failure among under five children of tribal population

  Ram Prabhakar, Hemalatha Kumarasamy, Anitha Dhanapal

  2056-2063

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191818

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• Study of knowledge, attitude and practice among nurses regarding needle stick and sharp item injuries

  Sonia ., Sukhbir Singh, Brijender Singh, Satpal Singh, Anil Khurana, Ramesh Verma

  2064-2068

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191819

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• Knowledge attitude practice on breast self-examination in a rural area in North Kerala

  Sherin Ishaaque, Nandini Gopalamenon

  2069-2073

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191820

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• A study on nomophobia and its correlation with sleeping difficulty and anxiety among medical students in a medical college, Telangana

  Nagapraveen Veerapu, Ravi Kumar Baer Philip, Hanisha Vasireddy, Sowmya Gurrala, Swathi Tapaswi Kanna

  2074-2076

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191821

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• Prescribing patterns in primary and secondary level government health facilities in a district of Assam: a cross sectional study

  Dakshadhwari Upadhyay, Rashmi Ahmed, Rupali Baruah, Manjit Boruah

  2077-2080

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191822

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• A KAP study on water, sanitation and hygiene among residents of Parla village, Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh

  Rekha Hothur, Sreedevi Arepalli, Anusha Doddoju Veera Bhadreshwara

  2081-2085

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191823

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• Knowledge, attitude and practices of contraception among urban women in Mangaluru, Karnataka

  Jibi Stephen George, Hemant Kumar

  2086-2090

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191824

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• Prevalence of asthenopia among computer operators in Central India and effectiveness of educational intervention

  Shoaib Arshad, Amreen Khan, D. K. Pal, Veena Melwani, Shipra Verma, Harshima Sawlani

  2091-2094

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191825

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• Study on attitude of household waste management in a rural area of Northern Kerala

  Nivya Noonjiyil Kaithery, Usha Karunakaran

  2095-2102

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191826

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• Mental health assessment of adolescent girls in an observational home in North coastal Andhra Pradesh: a cross sectional study

  Mounica Kollabathula, Devi Madhavi Bhimarasetty

  2103-2107

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191827

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• Prevalence and determinants of dental caries among primary school children in urban area of Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu: a cross sectional study

  Arunkumar M., Gopalakrishnan S., Uma Devi R.

  2108-2115

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191828

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• Study on depression among elderly people in an urban slum of Raichur

  Vandana Ganganapalli, Sujatha N., Bhaskar Kurre

  2116-2120

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191829

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• Infant feeding practices among mothers in rural Rajamahendravaram, Andhra Pradesh

  Suresh Babu Uppiretla, Sushant Kumar Mishra, Hari Kumar Rachakulla

  2121-2126

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191830

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• A retrospective study on timeliness of vaccination among children aged 0 to 23 months in a rural area of Pondicherry

  Padmavathi Subbiah, Anandaraj Rajagopal, Vijay Kantilal Chavada, Kavita P. Vasudevan

  2127-2132

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191831

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• A study on unhealthy cervix and its risk factors among currently married women of reproductive age group attending an urban health centre of Kolkata

  Aparajita Dasgupta, Rabindra Nath Sinha, Bobby Paul, Lina Bandhopadhay, Rajarshi Banerjee, Sweta Suman

  2133-2138

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191832

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• Attitude towards compulsory rural health services among interns of RajaRajeswari Medical College and Hospital, Bengaluru

  Ranganatha S. C., Damayanthi M. N., Sheetu Jailkhani

  2139-2142

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191833

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• Elder abuse among residents of Shivamogga: a cross sectional study

  Sridevi N. H., Praveen Kumar N., Nithin Gaonkar, Shameem R. Kanganolli, Ajay Malya

  2143-2146

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191834

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• Socio-demographic co-relates of depression among housewives in rural area of district Ludhiana

  Urvashi ., Sangeeta Girdhar, Anurag Chaudhary, Sanjay Gupta, Shamim Monga

  2147-2151

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191835

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• Study on oral smokeless tobacco use among migrant labourers and their attitude towards tobacco cessation in an urban settlement in Ernakulam district of Kerala

  Anjana Rameshan, Leyanna Susan George, Devraj Ramakrishnan, Anu Vasudevan

  2152-2156

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191836

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• COTPA 2003 compliance assessment of tobacco vendors and products: current status of an earliest smoke free Indian city

  Ankit Chaudhary, Anita Thakur, Tripti Chauhan, Anjali Mahajan, Vijay Kumar Barwal, Shaina Chamotra, Amit Sachdeva, Baljeet Singh

  2157-2162

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191837

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• Timely referral and safe transport of neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit of tertiary care government hospital of Agra district: a cross sectional study

  Rudresh Negi, Renu Agrawal, Sunil K. Kaushal, Sunil K. Misra

  2163-2171

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191838

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• A study on health problems among government primary school children in rural area of Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh

  Ram Sagar Reddy Moola, Renuka Biyyala, Venkata Ramana Bhuma

  2172-2175

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191839

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• Prevalence and factors affecting early initiation of breastfeeding in rural areas of Dibrugarh district, Assam

  Monmohan Borah, Jenita Baruah, Rupali Baruah, Manjit Boruah

  2176-2181

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191856

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• Knowledge, attitude and practices regarding generic medicines and its usage: a community-based study

  Kirthinath Ballala, Chythra R. Rao, Aparna S. Chaudhary, Ashwini S. Bidnurmath, Akhilesh K. Pandey

  2182-2188

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191841

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• Seroprevalence of TORCH infection among pregnant women

  Susanta Kumar Sahu, Subrat Kumar Pradhan, Lal Mohan Nayak

  2189-2194

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191842

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• Epidemiological investigation of an acute gastroenteritis outbreak in a tribal village near Madhya Pradesh-Maharashtra border

  Mukesh S. Bawa, Amol D. Kinge, Ananta Borde, Sarika Patil, Shriram Gosavi, Vikrant Pagar, Mamata Rathod, Sushant Chavan, Mangesh Shirpurkar

  2195-2199

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191843

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• Time series analysis of dengue cases reporting to a tertiary care hospital

  Ravindra S. Kembhavi, Saurabha U. S.

  2200-2205

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191844

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• An epidemiological study of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among 35 years and above rural population of Gurugram, Haryana

  Navneet Aggarwal, Balbir S. Deswal, Shalini Ray, Ved Pal

  2206-2210

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191845

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• Determinants of menstrual hygiene among school going adolescent girls in urban areas of Hyderabad

  Sunil Pal Singh Chajhlana, Sai Ram Amaravadhi, Sai Deepika Mazodi, Venkata Sravani Kolusu

  2211-2215

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191846

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• Prevalence of mental health problems by using strength and difficulty questionnaire in school going adolescents (11-17 years) of Jaipur city, Rajasthan

  Rekha Shekhawat, Nikita Sharma, Vikram S. Sodha

  2216-2222

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191847

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• Prevalence and correlates of psychological distress among cancer patients in a tertiary care hospital in northern India

  Amita Mason, Ruchi Juyal, Sai Chandan Das, Deep Shikha, Sunil Saini, Jayanti Semwal

  2223-2228

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191848

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• Prevalence of overweight and obesity among women of >20 years

  Sravanthi Gilla, Humera Abida

  2229-2234

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191849

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• Effect of core strengthening on cardiovascular fitness and flexibility in obese individuals: experimental study

  Gurmeet Kaur Multani, Anuradha Sutar, Nitin Nikhade, Snehal Ghodey

  2235-2240

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191850

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• Cognition of emergency contraception: an assessment among WRA in a rural community of West Bengal

  Aparajita Dasgupta, Nivedita Roychoudhury, Dipak Pal, Lina Bandyopadhyay, Sweta Suman, Munu Mohanta

  2241-2245

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191851

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• An epidemiological study to evaluate morbidity patterns among wood workers belonging to unorganized sector

  Aritra K. Bose, Dilip D. Kadam, Anusha C. P.

  2246-2251

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191852

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• Factors influencing the stress among the police personnel of Chitradurga city: a cross-sectional study

  Sameeya Furmeen Salam, Mayuri Reddy Reddy

  2252-2258

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191853

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• Morbidity profile of the patients attending the health camp in Ramanagar district, Karnataka

  Savita S. Patil, Jayashree S. Seeri, Narayana Swamy D. M.

  2259-2263

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191854

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• Assessment of the availability of infrastructure, manpower, materials and knowledge of health care providers regarding child health care services in the sub centers of a block of Dibrugarh district, Assam

  Debarshi Paul, Gourangie Gogoi, Rupali Baruah

  2264-2269

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191855

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• Assessment of death registration coverage and its delays in district Faridkot: an urban rural comparison

  Anupamdeep ., Preeti Padda, Sanjay Gupta, Vishal Gupta, Shalini Devgan, Shamim Monga

  2270-2275

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191840

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• Clinical profile and changes in laboratory parameters among dengue patients at tertiary care hospital: an observational study

  Pankaj Ashok Pande, Amit Jagdish Jogdande

  2276-2279

  DOI: 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191857

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