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Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Effect of Thunbergia Laurifolia Lindl. on Oxidative Stress and Blood Cholinesterase in farm Workers Exposed to Pesticides in the Mae Chai District of Phayao Province Orapin Insuan; Padchanee Sangthong; Pennipat Nabheerong; Surachat Buddhisa; Peerawan Kengsangunsit; Suntorn Prompao; Benchaluk Thongchuai
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 4 (2021): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.37506/ijfmt.v15i4.17014

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Thunbergia laurifolia Lindl. or Rang Chuet is a plant traditionally used in Thailand for the treatment oftoxicity and as an antidote for many poisons. This study aimed to investigate the effect of Rang Chuetcapsules on blood chemistry in 39 agricultural workers (21 males, 18 females) during an intensive 8-weekspraying program. The following tests were performed: serum butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) and serummalondialdehyde (MDA) levels before and after Rang Chuet capsule supplementation. The results indicatethat serum BChE levels were unchanged in male and female workers. However, the levels of serum MDAin male and female workers decreased significantly at p < 0.001 and p < 0.05, respectively. In this study, thephylogenetic relationships within the large tropical and subtropical family Thunbergia were studied usinggenomic DNA from the fresh leaves of sampled plants. The results showed 99% homology with Thunbergiacoccinea. This study indicates that Rang Chuet presents antioxidant activity and could be promoted as ahealth supplement.
Dental Panoramic Radiographs as Early Signs of Osteoporosis in Pre and Post Menopausal Women – An Observational Study P.E. Chandra Mouli; Madhavan Prasad; T. Gopalakrishnan
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Osteoporosis is defined as “a skeletal disorder characterized by low bone mass and micro architecturaldeterioration of bone tissue leading to enhanced bone fragility, with consequent increase in fracture risk”. Anosteoporotic fracture is an outcome of trauma to bone of compromised strength, commonly first occurringin the vertebral bodies and distal radius, both sites composed predominantly of medullary (trabecular) bone.Osteoporosis is an extremely common disease affecting most women during their lifetime. Osteoporosisreduces bone density, affecting the bone mass and strength without altering the basic chemical composition.Declining estrogen levels during and after menopause lead to increase bone resorption and increased urinaryexcretion of calcium. Thus, estrogen deficiency plays a primary role in osteoporosis, accounting for up toone half of the bone lost during a women’s lifetime.Oral signs of osteoporosis might be manifested by excessive alveolar ridge resorption, tooth loss, chronicdestructive periodontal disease, referred maxillary sinus pain, or fracture.Radiographic evaluation of post-menopausal women and patients with advanced renal failure demonstratedthe loss of cortical bone at the mandible.The purpose of the study is to evaluate relationship between various oral signs the probability of thisrelationship excising in certain patients and to access cortical bone thickness measurements using panoramicradiographs.
Administrative Factors and Organization Climate Affecting the Performance of Health Personnel at the Emergency Department in Community Hospital Padcharin Phomdonko; Prachak Bouphan; NuttapolYotha; Surachai Phimha
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This is a cross-sectional analytical study aimed to identify administrative factors and organizational climateaffecting the performance of health personnel at the emergency department in community hospital Roi-Etprovince, Thailand. The study samples selected randomly from Emergency Department were 137 healthpersonnel. Stratified random sampling technique was applied to recruit the respondents from the total of 229health personnel. Similarly, 12 key informants were selected for the qualitative study. In-Depth interviewguidelines was applied to conduct qualitative study. The content validity of the questionnaire was evaluatedby three experts yielding an IOC value more than 0.50 in all questions. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient ofthe questionnaire was 0.98. Data were collected between 23rd December 2020 to 12th January 2021. Dataanalysis was performed by descriptive statistics and inferential statistics at a significant level at 0.05.The study results showed that the administrative factors such as money, organizational climate suchas dimension of warmth, a dimension of responsibility and dimension of identity were affecting theperformance of health personnel (49.6 % (R2=0.496, p-value<0.001).In conclusion, four factors are affectingthe performance of health personnel. Hence those factors should be addressed, and administration shouldcreate the climate which can address the budget, working objective and goal for the development of theorganization.
Awareness and Attitude of Forensic Odontology among Undergraduate Dental Students in Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Afghanistan Palwasha Seraj; Mohammad Hassan Hamrah; Farhat Homayoun; Ali Maisam; ElahaSomaya Ghafary; Sepideh Hosseini; Maryam Khosrozadeh
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Aims and Objectives: The aim of the study is to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of forensicodontology among undergraduate dental students at Kabul university of medical science, Kabul,Afghanistanafter adding this subject in their curriculumMaterial and Methods: This cross-sectional study is conducted among 150 undergraduate dental studentsof Kabul University of medical sciences aged 18 and 23 years during the period from December 2020to February 2021.A questionnaire of Abdul et al. (2019) study was used; the questionnaire consisted of19 questions that assessed the knowledge, attitudes, and practice of the participants. The questionnaire isdivided into three parts: knowledge, attitude and practice. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS-24software, chi-square test.Results: Ninety percent of the participants were aware of the branch of science called forensic dentistry.All the included participants welcomed the idea of adding a module on forensic odontology to the currentundergraduate curriculum. Almost 88.7% of the participants were aware that dental record help foridentification of deceased person’s age however, The most of undergraduate dental students (90.7%), claimthat they have lack of the knowledge related forensic odontology. Most of participants were willing tomaintain dental record in their future clinics.Conclusion: Our study showed that the knowledge, attitude, and practice in undergraduate dental studentsare better since it’s added into curriculum of Kabul University of medical science. However,there are noworkshops, seminars, and continuing dental education programs for dental students.There is a need forfurther exposure and formal training to bring awareness among all health-care providers.
Menstrual Blood Stem Cell Preservation Parul Saini; Bharti Sachdeva
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Unlike past days menstrual blood has been considered as the rich source of self-rejuvenating stem cells.These cells can multiple rapidly and helps in various cosmetic and regenerative surgeries. They can easilybe used same as that of stem cells derived from umbilical cord and bone marrow.
Psychoeducation on Adherence to Treatment of Schizophrenia Patient During Covid-19 Pandemic Era Patria Yudha Putra; Izzatul Fithriyah
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Background: The outbreak of Covid-19 is really disrupting people’s thought and their ability to face theproblem clearly and their mental health could be disturbed.They will go under their circumstance of fear,start to panic, and leads to poor decision making. This fear and anxiety could affect and lead to any negativebehavioural changes of patients to the belief of being infected by avoiding going to the hospital as a sourceof contagion place.Methods: Case study from an inward patient, adult woman that suffered fromschizophrenia for more than10 years and got injection of antipsychotic routinely once a month. During the early time of Covid-19pandemic, the patient and her family are afraid of coming to the hospital to get her injection. After one monthof not getting the injection, she started to relapse again and hospitalized for 10 days.Results: The difficulty faced in handling this case is to provide an understanding of the patient and familyabout adherence on her continuity treatment. Therefore, by giving a psychoeducation using a telemedicineis consideredto the most suitable way to handle this patientto gain more insight about her willingness backto get the monthly treatment during the pandemic situation.
Key Success Factors and Motivation Affecting the Care of Patients with Tuberculosis of Health Personnel in Primary Care Units Phatthraphon Chowong; Prachak Bouphan; Nakarin Prasit; Surachai Phimha
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This research is a cross-sectional descriptive aimed to study key success factors and motivation affectingthe care of patients with tuberculosis of health personnel in primary care units Nongbualamphu province,Thailand. The populations were 89 health personnel and 12 key informants. The content validity of thequestionnaire was evaluated by three experts with an IOC greater than 0.50 and Cronbach’s CorrelationCoefficient was 0.97 and In-Depth interview guidelines for the qualitative. Data was collected between 4thJanuary 2021 and 25th January 2021.The results of the study showed that five factors including; 1) motivation factor in responsibility 2)Hygiene Factor in policy and management 3) key success factor in the startup in areas that are ready andwilling to participation 4) Hygiene Factor in a relationship with supervisors, subordinates, co-workers and5) Hygiene Factor in salary and compensation affecting and could joint predict the care for tuberculosispatients in primary care at 75.0 percentage (R2 = 0.750, p-value <0.001). In conclusion, key success factorsand motivation affecting the care of patients with tuberculosis of health personnel in primary care units.Therefore, the health personnel should be developed in terms of work priorities, working process that ledto the intention to work, awareness of their roles and responsibilities Including promoting participation inpolicymaking on tuberculosis work.
Determination of Learning Styles among Nursing Students Pooja Gill; Parul; Yogesh Kumar; Jyoti Sarin
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Nursing education furnishes students with the learning qualities required for their profession and also makesstudents lifelong learners. Aim of the study was to evaluate the learning styles among nursing students. Aquantitative approach with descriptive design was applied. A total of 122 students were recruited by purposivesampling from two nursing colleges, selected by convenient sampling. In addition, tools used for the studywere structured questionnaire for sample characteristics and Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory. Learningstyles were assessed after collecting baseline data. Results indicated that the most preferred learning stylewas turned out to be Accommodator (35%). Findings concluded that there is a diversity of learning stylesamong nursing students as the students were having all the types of learning styles.
Hepatitis-B Screening amonghealth Care Worker –a Cross Sectional Study Praful Damor; Siddaram Sarate
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 4 (2021): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Effect of Air Pollution on Health of Community People–A Descriptive Approach Praful Damor; Abhay Pattan; AmbilyV.Vijayakumar
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 4 (2021): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Background: Air pollution is a global and one of the serious environmental hazards because it causes lot ofdamage to living and non-living things in the environment. Air pollution is a problem which emitted variousgases in the air because of burning of wood etc. Air pollution cause not so serious in the past as it is nowbecause of growing population, rapid industrialization, use of automobiles, modern agricultural activitiesetc.1Objectives:1. To assess the knowledge regarding effects of air pollution on health among community people Gujarat.2. To assess the attitude regarding effects of air pollution on health among community people in centralGujarat3. To find out the association between knowledge score regarding effects of air pollution on health withselected socio demographic variables.Methodology: A quantitative research approach at survey design was adopted to conduct the study atcentral part of Gujarat. Sample comprised of 60 community people. Sample was selected by conveniencesampling technique. The data obtained was analyzed and interpreted in terms of the objectives of the study.A structured questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge and likert scale was used to assess the attitudeon effects of air pollution on health among community people.Result: The findings of the study show that 53% female and 47% male samples, highest percentage91% are belongs to hindu,1% muslim,3% Cristian,4% are others, majority of people were age group of26-35years(33%),15-25years(20%),36-45 years (20%),above 45 years (26.6%),43% people received up tosecondary level education,91% people are Hindu, 71% people are self-employed, 18.3% people are livingin nuclear family,45% people having less than 5000rs income,70% people living in pakka housing,56.6%get knowledge regarding effects of air pollution on health from T.V. 2. The score of the study is mean (16.1)and standard deviation is (3.46).Conclusion: Overall knowledge and attitude about the effects of air pollution on health was average whichsuggested that people having average knowledge regarding effects of air pollution Group.