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Factors associated with out-of-pocket expenditure among patients admitted for cataract surgery under district blindness control society scheme: A cross-sectional study from a private medical college hospital of South India
Conclusions: OOPE for cataract surgery among DBCS patients was associated with the presence of comorbidity, postponement of surgery, duration of hospital stay, and distance traveled by the patient. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rashmi Shambhu Kibballi Madhukeshwar Akshaya Anupama Bappal Rashmi Jain Vidya Hegde H Pavithra Source Type: research

Lung function impairment in patients treated for pulmonary tuberculosis and associated factors in Puducherry, South India
Conclusion: LFI was frequent in patients treated previously for TB. Creating awareness about the possible LFI among these patients along with the awareness for seeking health care for this condition is the need of the hour. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mounika Pydipalli Palanivel Chinnakali Manju Rajaram Shanthosh Priyan Sundaram Gautam Roy Source Type: research

Knowledge, awareness, and practices among consumers regarding trans-fat: A cross-sectional study
Conclusion: Nutrition education and proper labelling of food items can improve the knowledge about food ingredients and food purchasing patterns. Proper enforcement and monitoring of food items labeling guidelines can be recommended. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Poonam Khanna Sonu Goel Rachita Jain Arshdeep Singh Mahendra Pratap Singh Source Type: research

Quantifying age heaping and age misreporting in a multicentric survey
Conclusion: The study provides evidence that probably age-heaping bias is less of problem in the conducted study. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: DR Basannar Sumeet Singh Jyoti Yadav Arun Kumar Yadav Source Type: research

Evaluating Changes in Determinants of Stunting among Children Under 2 Years and Assessing Their Contribution to Socioeconomic Disparity in Child Nutritional Status across India
Conclusions: The study identifies institutional deliveries, maternal schooling, and maternal health as major contributors of decrease in early childhood stunting. It identifies persisting socioeconomic disparity in childhood stunting over the last decade. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Deboshree Das Source Type: research

Evaluation of multiple-choice questions by item analysis, from an online internal assessment of 6th semester medical students in a rural medical college, West Bengal
Conclusion: Item analysis and storage of MCQs with their indices provides opportunity for an examiner to select MCQs of appropriate difficulty level as per the need of assessment and decide their placement in the question paper. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sharmistha Bhattacherjee Abhijit Mukherjee Kallol Bhandari Arup Jyoti Rout Source Type: research

Smokeless tobacco exposure and fetal iron status: An analytical study
Conclusion: Cord serum ferritin and fetal iron status were comparable in tobacco exposed and unexposed groups. In those with fetal nicotine absorption, cord ferritin levels reflect the fetal inflammatory state. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Swathi Sunil Rao Rutuja Agadi Sukanya Shetty Raghavendra Rao Rathika D Shenoy Source Type: research

Transmission dynamics of covid-19 and utility of contact tracing in risk assessment of health-care worker exposure during COVID-19 pandemic
Conclusions: Based on the risk assessment, we found that a HCW is likely to acquire infection at home rather than at the workplace, and hence, an appropriate quarantine policy can help decrease the transmission and mitigate staff shortage. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Malathi Murugesan Padmanaban Venkatesan Jagadish Ramasamy Prasanna Samuel Rajiv Karthik Winsley Rose Priscilla Rupali Source Type: research

Health-related quality of life among liver disorder patients in Northern India
Conclusion: HRQoL is impaired among patients suffering from liver disorders specifically those admitted in ICU. Further, there is a need to generate more evidence to explore the impact of determinants and treatment-associated costs on the HRQoL. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yashika Chugh Swati Katoch Deepshikha Sharma Pankaj Bahuguna Ajay Duseja Manmeet Kaur Radha Krishan Dhiman Shankar Prinja Source Type: research

Effectiveness of after-school physical activity intervention on body mass index and waist circumference/height ratio among overweight adolescents in selected Schools at Puducherry, India: A randomized controlled trial
Conclusion: School-based physical activity interventions are effective in prevention of childhood overweight/obesity and are a very cost-effective measure that can be easily implemented in schools. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sumathy Ponnambalam Soundararajan Palanisamy Rajeswari Singaravelu Hemamalini Arambakkam Janardhanan Source Type: research

A novel approach to promote evidence-based development of district maternal and newborn health plans in two states in India
Conclusion: The use of a tool facilitated the systematic development of evidence-based district implementation plans. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Harish Kumar Enisha Sarin Vaishali Alwadhi Shailesh Kumar Chaurasia Kuldeep Singh Martolia Jaya Swarup Mohanty Nitin Bisht Naresh Chandra Joshi Prasant Kumar Saboth Sachin Gupta Source Type: research

COVID-19 serological survey-3 prior to second wave in Mumbai, India
Conclusions: Seropositivity is higher in slum areas than nonslum areas. It has reduced in slum areas and increased in nonslum areas as compared to findings of serosurveys 1 and 2. This explains the detection of a greater number of cases from nonslum areas in the second wave. The average seropositivity of 36.3% justifies the necessity of immunization on a wider scale in the city. Periodic serosurveys are required at fixed intervals to monitor the trend of infection and level of herd immunity. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gajanan D Velhal Jayanthi S Shastri Daksha Shah Sachee R Agrawal Mangala Gomare Deepika Mandar Sadawarte Source Type: research

Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Mental Health Status Prevailing among COVID-19 Patients in Mumbai, India
Conclusion: There is a need for actively detecting and managing depression in institutionally quarantined survivors, considering limiting such quarantine to no more than a week, and providing routine screening and care for depression beyond this period. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Arjun Gurmeet Singh Hitesh Singhavi Florida Sharin Muffazal Lakdawala Sharayu Mhatre Jayita Deodhar Pankaj Chaturvedi Rajesh Dikshit Source Type: research

Development and use of a reproducible framework for spatiotemporal climatic risk assessment and its association with decadal trend of dengue in India
Conclusion: The study provides a reproducible algorithm for bulk climatic data extraction from research-level satellite imagery. Infectious disease models can be used to understand disease epidemiology and strengthen disease surveillance in the country. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gurpreet Singh Arun Mitra Biju Soman Source Type: research

Prevalence and determinants of depression among multi drug resistant (MDR) TB cases registered under national tuberculosis elimination program in Ahmedabad City
Conclusion: MDR-TB cases are more vulnerable for developing depression as the prevalence was 16.2% among them. Hence, cases need to be monitored closely for depression at TU as well at community level. (Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine)
Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rashmi Sharma Harsh Bakshi Shailesh Prajapati Gneyaa S Bhatt Rajesh Mehta Kiran C Rami Prakash Mehta Tejas Shah Roshni Dave Azba Peerzada Source Type: research