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Estimation of Stature from Foot Print Length among Students and Staff of S. Nijalingappa Medical College of Age Group 21-30 Years Vinay Manjunath Raj; Kelvekar V H; Manjula R
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 3 (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.v15i3.15368

Identity means the determination of the individuality of a person. Identification of a person is one of the mostimportant issues for a forensic expert in solving many medico-legal cases. The present studies was undertaken to estimate the stature from foot print length and to evolve regression equation for the same in both thegender. 100 healthy subjects (50 males and 50 females) of age group 21-30 years, who are resident of northKarnataka, were included in the study. The foot print lengths of both the feet of the participants were taken.The readings were subjected to statistical evaluation and regression formulae were established for statureestimation from foot print lengths in males and females.

A Study to Assess the Quality of Life of Under Graduate B.sc. Nursing Students of Dinsha Patel College of Nursing, Nadiad Virendra Jain; Arpita Vaidya; Nickson Das; Sachi Christian; Pragnesh Patel
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 3 (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.v15i3.15369

Background and Aims: Quality of life (QOL) is a subjective concept because the interpretation of eachindividual depends on his/her personal point of view. It is also multidimensional, given the influence offactors related to education, economy and socio-cultural aspects.Although the quality of life (QOL) of nursing students is a relatively well-researched topic in the West, thereis a lack of it in developing countries like India. The aim of this study was to examine the QOL of Indianundergraduate nursing students and its associations with socio demographic and other parameters.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in nursing college in Gujarat, India. In this institutionundergraduate nursing students were selected. Usually, students start nursing program at 18 years of age.During the course of their study they learn different medical and paramedical related nursing subjects.Also, from the first year, they have their first direct clinical contact with patients in hospitals (scheduledclinical rotations). All the eligible subjects were approached after class hours to participate in the survey.Participation was completely voluntary. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participantsincluded in the study. The questionnaires were anonymous, personally identifiable information such as nameand identification number was not collected. Students were requested to sit at a fair distance from each otherso as to assuage their privacy concerns. Students were assured of confidentiality and informed that the datacollected shall be published and later would be provided to nursing education policymakers. The studywas approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee and was conducted according to the ethical principleslaid down by the declaration of ICMR. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 225 nursing students inNadiad Gujarat, India. Students self-reported their QOL using the World Health Organization Quality ofLife-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF).Data were collected on the individuals’ characteristics, including the yearof study, substance use, physical exercise, academic performance, and other parameters.Results & Conclusion: The present study evaluates the quality of life of B.Sc nursing students of DinshaPatel College of Nursing. On the basis of the findings the researchers concluded that the 146 students areperceived that they are live with average Quality of Life.

Demographic Studies of Autopsied Cases at North Bengal Medical College Hospital During the National Lockdown Period Due to COVID 19 Pandemic Vivek Kumar; Jagadish Biswas; Tenzing ZampelBhutia; Dibyakar Chhetri; Rumi Maitra; Prabir Kumar Deb
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 3 (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.v15i3.15370

The outbreak of COVID 19 pandemic in India has started from the month of March when many cases weretested positive for novel coronavirus. The high infectivity of the disease led many governments to imposestrict lockdown with the aim of limiting its spread. To restrict its spread and save the people of India ourgovernment has also imposed strict nationwide lockdown in a phase wise manner. Though the lockdown wasimposed to restrict the spread of COVID 19 but it had severe undesirable impact on the socio-economicaland psychological status of the people especially of low to medium income groups involved in private jobs.The aim of this study was to study the cases of autopsied unnatural deaths with special emphasis to find outthe correlation between demographic pattern of deceased with the lockdown. In this study we have analysedthe 961 cases of autopsied unnatural deathsin the mortuary of Department of Forensic Medicine, NBMCH,Darjeeling, West Bengal from the first day of lockdown up to the month of September (24th March 2020 toSeptember 2020). All data were analysed by appropriate statistical tolls like SPSS software. In this study wefound that male (66.4%) predominated over the females and most of the cases belongs to adult age group(44.27%). Persons involved in private jobs (44%) were more severely affected compared to the governmentjobs and cases of suicidal deaths (45.7%) rises but cases of deaths due to road traffic accidents (13.9%)drastically reduced during lockdown period.

Importance of Forensic Science in Crime Investigation Yogender Singh; Pratima Devi Ranga
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 3 (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.v15i3.15371

Forensic science has been used for justice delivery system since ages. However it started gaining groundin early fifties as an independent discipline and since then it has derived applications from every field ofscience and technology. Today it is well settled and much sought after and ever growing technology forensicsand forensic investigations are fast changing their face as every other day new types of crimes are beingcommitted. To cope up with the demanding nature of this profession, forensic services need up-gradation atevery stage. This paper focuses on the applicability of Forensic science in criminal investigation and the roleit plays in keeping law and order in a society, also throws light on how forensic science is acting as a bridgebetween the medical scientists and legal scientists.

A Prospective Study on Profile and Pattern of Electric Injuries Cases brought in RNT Medical College, Udaipur Yogesh Sharma; Punit Jain
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 3 (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.v15i3.15372

It is well known fact that electricity is essential to everyday life, both home and on the job. Perhaps it hasbecome such a familiar part of daily life , most people don’t give much thought to it or how much our workdepends on a reliable source of electricity. More importantly , people tend to overlook the hazards thatelectricity poses and fail to treat it with the respect it deserves.A prospective study on profile of electric injuries cases was conducted at RNT Medical college Udaipur,Rajasthan from July 2019 to November 2020 to know about the incidence and pattern of electric injuriescases , also to study the manner of events, seasonal variation, population at high risk to be victims of electricinjury and to provide recommendation for developing useful safety programs to decrease the incidence. Outof the total 100 cases, 86 were male and 14 were female. 83 cases were of 11 year to 50 year age group. 68cases occurred at work place , out of which 62 were male and 6 were female and 32 cases occurred at home.40cases occurred in rainy season and 39 cases occurred in winter season and 21 cases occurred in summer.This study emphasizes on better implementation of electrical injuries control program in communities andincrease the awareness of people and also on use of safety equipments and protective measures. As our studysuggests that most of the electric injuries cases were preventable.