Nidhin Koshy, Sheetal Sriraman, Yogeesh D KamatJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1397-1402 Background: Manual handling forms an important part of a health care worker's daily routine. Faulty techniques may result in musculoskeletal injuries in health workers and further injury to patients. Objectives: In our study, we assessed the techniques of patient moving and handling by health care workers in our hospital. Our aim was to educate them on standard moving and handling techniques...
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Asma A Alsowiyan, Hadeel M Almotyri, Najd S Alolayan, Lamees I Alissa, Bashayer H Almotyri, Sultan H AlSaighJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1712-1718 Aim: This study aimed to measure breast cancer (BC) awareness among women in Al-Qassim and to compare the results to previous studies in Saudi Arabia and international studies. Method: This is a cross-sectional study conducted in Al-Qassim region, Saudi Arabia. All women above 18 years of age were included and those who could...
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Ali Labafchi, Amin Rahpeyma, Saeedeh KhajehahmadiJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1403-1406 Aim: We aimed to identify the percutaneous exposure incident (PEI) by private dentists in Mashhad, Iran. Methods: Subjects included 199 dentists enrolled in this study. A questionnaire consisting of 11 questions was sent to the dentists for data collection. Information was collected on knowledge about dangers of PEI, a history of needlestick or sharps injuries over the past 12 months,...
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Mohd Nadeem, Prasan Kumar PandaJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1736-1740 Human survival after developing rabies is very scary to humanity. We report a case of a 58-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh (north India), who presented with 5-days of fever and 1-day of altered sensorium associated with agitation, hydrophobia, and bedwetting after 20 days of WHO category 3 bite in the face by a rabid dog. She had taken three doses of anti-rabies vaccinations but not immunoglobulin...
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Shambhavi Singh, Anuradha Sharma, Vijay Lakshmi NagJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1407-1412 Respiratory tract infections are the most common diseases that are associated with social burden for the patient. Western Rajasthan has cases of Cystic fibrosis due to migrant population. The dry and dusty environment has led to prevalence of silicosis and COPD. As per IDSA (2018) guidelines, patients attending Out-Patient Department do not need microbiological investigations for lower...
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Anuj Singh Parihar, Sumit Narang, Nandini Singh, Anu NarangJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1752-1756 The interdisciplinary collaboration of periodontics and orthodontics has allowed teeth to be moved 2–3 times faster, reducing the time required for traditional orthodontic therapy considerably. Periodontally accelerated osteogenic orthodontics (PAOO), also known as Wilckodontics, is a combination of a selective decortication facilitated orthodontics and alveolar augmentation....
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Mozhgan Fardid, Mehdi Jafari, Abbas Vosoogh-MoghaddamJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1413-1417 In the current scenario, financing suffers from problems related to lack of specific line for UFFP, lack of resource pooling, delay in payment to physicians, and conflict of interests among family physician team. As a result, this policy brief was formulated based on the role of FPs in public access to general practitioner (GP) services in the referral system on one hand, followed...
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Nejima Kolikkat, Shamsudeen Moideen, Aysha Khader, TP Mohammed, NA UvaisJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1768-1771 Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM) is a rare and slowly progressive disorder, a variant of lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, which needs therapy only when patient becomes symptomatic. WM presents usually with constitutional symptoms, organomegaly, cytopenias, and hyperviscosity syndrome. This neoplasm is composed of small lymphocytes, plasmacytoid lymphocytes, and...
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Mebin George Mathew, Korishettar Basavaraj Roopa, Ashu Jagdish Soni, Md Muzammil Khan, Afreen KauserJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1418-1423 Introduction: Stainless steel crowns are the most successful restoration for multisurface carious lesions in primary molars. The esthetics has been poorly accepted which led to the introduction of zirconia crowns. Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate and compare the clinical success, parental satisfaction, and child satisfaction...
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Raman KumarJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1281-1282 The National Medical Commission—NMC—Act has been passed in the Indian parliament. NMC replaces the MCI—Medical Council of India act and promises to facilitate in delivering quality primary health care. Family medicine has been mentioned thrice in this act and both undergraduate and postgraduate boards of the NMC have been mandated to promote family medicine discipline.
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Ravinder Singh Aujla, Ritika Agarwal, Smriti Sinha, Avinash KumarJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1424-1430 Background: Placebo use falls under two contexts: clinical care and research. In today's pharmacological era where treatment is available for almost all illnesses, there exists a lot of questions about the perceived efficacy and usage of placebos. This study focuses on assessing the knowledge, attitude, and practice of placebo use in clinical medicine. This study also...
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Setareh Soltany, Hamid Reza Hemmati, Jafar Alavy Toussy, Dina Salehi, Parisa Alavi ToosiJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1562-1566 Background: One of the most frequent distressing diseases which causes anal pain and bleeding after defecation is anal fissure. Despite a poorly understood pathogenesis, the internal anal sphincter spasm has been identified to play a central role in pathogenesis. Recently, botulinum toxin is being used increasingly for the treatment of chronic...
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Arun Prasad, Abhiranjan Prasad, Birendra K Singh, Sanjeev KumarJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1431-1435 Background: Rheumatic heart disease is a preventable problem and regular secondary prophylaxis and proper awareness about this disease among common people may reduce the burden of this disease in any region. Objectives: To find out compliance to the secondary prophylaxis of Rheumatic heart disease and awareness about this disease among common people of Bihar. Methodology:...
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Abdolkarim Ghadimi Moghadam, Eslam Yousefi, Mohamad Amin Ghatie, Ali Ghadimi Moghadam, Gholam Reza Pouladfar, Marzieh JamalidoustJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1573-1577 Introduction: This study aimed to determine the viral agent (s) and their genome burden associated with an aseptic meningitis outbreak that occurred in Yasuj, Iran. Materials and Methods: During April to August 2015, 104 CSF samples from 104 patients under 14 years old admitted to the hospital of Yasuj,...
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Sri Vidhya, Brahmanand Sharma, Bhanu P Swain, UK SinghJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1436-1441 Introduction: Unidentified difficult airway leads to significant adverse events and therefore prediction of a difficult airway is of importance. Independent bedside tests for the prediction of a difficult airway have poor accuracy. The airway assessment scores have not gained popularity as they are cumbersome to perform at the bedside. They also have a varying degree of interobserver...
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CB Albin, R Feema, L Aparna, H Darpanarayan, Jolly Chandran, Kundavaram Paul Prabhakar AbhilashJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1583-1588 Background: Paediatric injuries are a major cause of mortality and disability worldwide and account for a significant burden on countries like India with limited resources. There are very few studies from developing nations describing the outcome of paediatric trauma. Methodology: This retrospective study was done to assess the pattern...
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Bidhan Goswami, Himadri Bhattacharjya, Shauli Sengupta, Bhaskar BhattacharjeeJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1442-1447 Background: Elevated blood pressure has been found to be associated with body mass index (BMI) and serum leptin levels among adults. But there is a paucity of reports regarding such associations among adolescents. Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension and its associations with BMI and serum leptin levels among the secondary...
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Inderjit Murugendrappa Gowdar, Sulaiman Abdulaziz Aldamigh, Mohammed Saad Wabran, Abdullah Saleh Althwaini, Tamim Abdullah Alothman, Abdulrahman Mohammed AlnafisahJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1594-1598 Introduction: Children are the most important natural resources. School is a location which helps to promote the health of staff, families, and community members along with the students. Teachers are the most resourceful manpower available to deliver any healthcare at school...
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Ebtisam M. F Alhawsawi, Ghufran A Hariri, Randa J Alzuhayri, Yahya MakhdoomJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1448-1452 Context: Hidradenitis suppurativa is a noncontagious, inflammatory, chronic and recurrent disease. The prevalence of HS is estimated to be between less than 1 and 4%. It is more common in females than males at a 2:1 ratio. Many cases of HS are either misdiagnosed or remain undiagnosed. Aims: To assess knowledge of diagnosing hidradenitis suppurativa by Ministry...
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Mohammed Ahsan Razi, Seema Qamar, Adya Singhal, Ankit Mahajan, Shandar Siddiqui, Ruchi Staffy Mohina MinzJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1603-1607 Aim: The present study served the purpose of assessing the levels of salivary immunoglobulin A (IgA), immunoglobulin G (IgG), proteins, calcium, inorganic phosphorus, and alkaline phosphatase levels in caries-free and caries active children. Materials and Methods: Stratified randomized sampling method was used to include 40 subjects...
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Meghna Kandwal, Rashmi Jindal, Payal Chauhan, Samarjit RoyJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1453-1458 Background: World's population is aging at a very fast pace with 8.5% of current population being aged 65 years and above. Indian figures also reflect the exponential growth in number of older people. With advancing age a myriad of health-related problems arise. Due importance is given to diseases associated with high mortality such as malignancies, diabetes, and cardiovascular...
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Sultan Abdulwadoud Alshoabi, Dahhan Saleh Alhamodi, Moawia Bushra Gameraddin, Mahmoud S Babiker, Awatef Mohammed Omer, Sami A Al-DubaiJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1614-1616 Introduction: Urinary calculi constitute a significant medical problem worldwide. Due to lack of previous studies on gender and side distribution of urinary calculi, the current study was conducted. Patients and Methods: This retrospective study involved 590 urinary calculi from the electronic reports...
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T Al-Hariri Mohammed, A Alghamdi Abdulrahman, K Alkhaldi Saud, N Turkistani AlaaJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1459-1463 Aims: Our study was conducted to study the future specialty choices and the influencing factors among Saudi medical students. Settings and Design: Convenience study. Methods and Materials: An online questionnaire was sent to medical students during the period from February to April 2019 with the aim of analyzing the most desired specialty, the reasons...
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Ankit Goyal, Himanshu Narula, Puneet Kumar Gupta, Anita Sharma, Ajeet Singh Bhadoria, Pratima GuptaJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1620-1627 Background and Aims: To evaluate existing knowledge, attitude and perception and compliance of hand hygiene activity among various healthcare workers in a tertiary care centre in Uttarakhand. Methods: A cross sectional study was done for a period of two months. WHO hand hygiene and compliance form with slight modification were used...
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Shashi B Singh, Dewesh Kumar, Vivek Kashyap, Surendra SinghJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1464-1469 Introduction: Automated blood pressure (BP) monitor is widely used to assess the blood pressure (BP) of the study subjects in community-based researches. This study aims at the detection of hypertension by automated BP device and examines the concordance and validity between automated and mercury-free LED BP devices. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted...
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Muhannad M Alharthi, Meshari H Altowairqi, Sultan S Alamri, Hosam T Mashrah, Mazen A Almalki, Eidha Fawzan Eidha AljuaidJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1633-1639 Background: Previous studies have reported the association between gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Objectives: The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of GERD among Saudi population, and to determine the risk of OSA among those diagnosed with GERD in Taif...
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Shiva Borzouei, Hossein Mahjub, Negar Asaad Sajadi, Maryam FarhadianJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1470-1476 Background: The main goal of this study was to diagnose the two most common thyroid disorders, namely, hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, based on multinomial logistic regression and neural network models. In addition, the study evaluated the predictive ability of laboratory tests against the individual clinical symptoms score. Materials and Methods: In this study,...
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Meely Panda, Rambha Pathak, Farzana Islam, Rashmi Agarwalla, Vishal Singh, Farishta SinghJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1647-1655 The United Nations Population Fund suggests that the number of elderly persons is expected to grow to 173 million by 2026. The aging phase is further made adverse by conditions such as failty, multimorbidity and polypharmacy. Aim: To assess the status and associates of frailty among elderly (>60 years) residing in a peri-urban slum area in...
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Waheed Atilade Adegbiji, Shuaib Kayode Aremu, Abdul Akeem A Aluko, Rasaq Kayode AdewoyeJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1477-1482 Background: Nasal allergy is a common public health disorder seen in clinical practice worldwide. This disorder affected activities such as sleep, education, trading, economy, and social life.This study aimed at determining the level of knowledge and awareness of nasal allergy among patients seen in the otorhinolaryngology clinical practice of...
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Maha A Safhi, Raghad A Alafif, Nouf M Alamoudi, Malak M Alamoudi, Wejdan A Alghamdi, Shatha F Albishri, Hisham RizkJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1662-1667 Objective: This study aims to determine the prevalence and the association of stress with sleep quality among medical students at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Methods: A cross-sectional study was done among 326 medical students of KAU using a stratified random sampling technique. An electronic...
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Masoud Radman, Asiyeh Ferdousi, Hossein Khorramdelazad, Pooneh JalaliJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1483-1487 Background: There exist a wide level of discrepancy regarding the role of tonsils and its indication among pediatricians and ENT specialists. This fact sometimes causes confusion and delay in making the right decisions by parents and specialists for appropriate treatment of patients. Objectives: Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of long-term...
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Khadijah Abdulrhman Madkor, Eman Hazza Somily, Abdulmlik Abdullah Hassan Najmi, Asim Bishi Mohammed Hakami, Manssour Mohammed Alfaifi, Khaled Muhammed Mashhour, Al-Muhannad Yahya Ali Khabrani, Mohammed Eid Yahya HamdiJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1672-1677 Background: Studies have identified healthcare providers as an important determinant of vaccination acceptance. However, knowledge and attitudes toward vaccination have not been sufficiently studied in Saudi Arabia,...
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Forough Darabi, Shahla A Halili, Maryam MoradiJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1488-1491 Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases are considered the major cause of death in dialysis patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Recently, intensive hemodialysis has increasingly used and replaced conventional hemodialysis. The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of intensive hemodialysis on LVH regression and blood pressure control. Methods: The present study is self-control,...
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Bandar Alhumaidi Alharbi, Nazish Masud, Fahad Abdullah Alajlan, Nwaf Ibrahim Alkhanein, Fares Thamer Alzahrani, Zaid Majed Almajed, Reema Khalid Mohammed Alessa, Ali Ibrahim Al-FarhanJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1684-1690 Background and Aims: Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death as well as disability worldwide. There is a little information about the prevalence of these diseases among Saudi elderly population. The aim of the study was to assess the role of...
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Besharat Rahimi, Maryam Edalatifard, Khosro Sadeghniiat Haghighi, Hossein KazemzadehJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1492-1496 Background: Forced oscillometry technique (FOT) is a noninvasive technique that measures reactance and resistance capacity of the lung and is a practical and less time-consuming technique for respiratory effort assessment. Recently, FOT has provided beneficial data regarding the screening of the patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and assessing...
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Dhaval Choksi, Kailash M Kolhe, Meghraj Ingle, Chetan Rathi, Harshad Khairnar, Shamshersingh G Chauhan, Vipul Chaudhary, Akash Shukla, Vikas PandeyJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1695-1699 Background and Aims: Esophageal carcinoma is a common gastrointestinal malignancy. There is a paucity of literature about the time trends from India. The aim of the study was to evaluate the time trends over 20 years and observe how they differ from the West. Material and Methods: We retrospectively...
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Meenakshi Khapre, Hemant D Shewade, Surekha Kishore, Gomathi Ramaswamy, Amol R DongreJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1497-1509 Context: Since the implementation of Weekly Iron and Folic acid Supplementation (WIFS) program in India in 2013, little effort has been made to comprehensively evaluate the program. Aims: This study was carried out to assess the coverage of WIFS among adolescent girls, explore implementation barriers, and suggest solutions to improve WIFS through...
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Mohammad Jamalian, Behnam Mahmodiyeh, Sahar Saveiee, Hasan SolhiJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1707-1711 Introduction: Various drugs affect liver problems caused by general hypoxia, including silymarin. Due to the fungal killer toxins, nowadays, silymarin (milk thistle) is used as an effective drug in the prevention and treatment of liver diseases and liver toxicity. In addition, silymarin protects the liver cells from solvents and chemical substances. The aim of this paper...
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Soumyaneel Das, Rabindra Nath Roy, Dilip Kumar Das, Amitava Chakraborty, Raston MondalJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 2020 9(3):1510-1516 Background: In the elderly population, sleep problems are prevalent and have known to be associated with many factors. There are many adverse consequences of decreased sleep such as heart disease, diabetes, depression, accidents, impaired cognition, and poor quality of life. Correlates of poor sleep quality have not been well explored in Indian...
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