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Bullying Behaviour: Experience in Secondary Schools in Obio Akpor Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria

Gabriel-Job N. & Azubogu U. · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

Aims: To determine the bullying experience among secondary school students in Obio Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. Study Design: A cross sectional study was conducted among 1860 participants aged 10-19 years. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conduc...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i730470

Needle-free Diabetes Management

R. Santosh Kumar & Prayash Raj Thakur · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

According to this article microneedles are used in automated diabetes therapy systems. By bridging diagnostics and therapeutics, advanced bioengineered systems could constitute a "smart" system for diabetes treatment. Oral, hypodermic, through the nose, and other modes of deliver...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i730471

To Study the Violence Experienced by Postgraduate Resident Doctors and Interns in a Tertiary Care Centre in Aurangabad

Jyoti Kharche, Rohit Jacob & Sachin Patel · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

Aim & Objectives: The aim & objectives of the study are to 1) determine the percentage of postgraduate medical students experiencing violence in a tertiary care centre in Aurangabad 2) assess the type of violence experienced by postgraduate resident doctors in a tertiary...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i630468

Effects of Application of Night Splint in the Management of Plantar Fasciitis

Dilir Jamal, Mohammod Habibur Rahman, Moinuddin Hossain Khan, Ripon Kumar Saha & Prasanta Kumar Chakraborty · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

Background: Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain. The condition usually comes on gradually without any injury. Clinically there is pain and tenderness in the sole of the foot, mostly under the heel, with standing or walking. The diagnosis of patient wit...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i630466

Knowledge and Attitude of Nursing Students Regarding Organ Donation in Pokhara, Nepal

Yadu Nath Baral, Sushila Baral, Srijana Paudel, Rajesh Kumar Yadav & Shanti Baral · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

Background: Organ donation and transplantation is a boon to the medical industry as it has helped in saving the lives of critically ill patients with organ failure but the shortage of organ donors is an emerging health problem in Nepal. Improving the knowledge and attitudes of he...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i630467

Administration of High-Risk Medication: A Hospital Based Prospective Study

Seema Bansal, Rajeev Chowdary, Prakashchand Shrama & Dawn V. Tom · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

Background: High-risk medicines are outlined as those medicines that have a high risk of inflicting pain or death once employed to patients in error. Hence, this work was done to identify key parameters of mishandling observed by the administration on high-risk medication. Method...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i530464

Attitude and Adherence to COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) among Malaysians

Theingi Maung Maung, Win Myint Oo, Goay Xin May, Chin Huey Yi, Jayamayuri Pathmanafan & Varun Pai · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

Introduction: The COVID-19 cases in Malaysia increased dramatically and every individual must comply with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to prevent the high burden on health facilities. Since it has no effective treatment; nonetheless, early recognition of the disease and a...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i630465

Tuberculosis: Stop It with Effective Treatment

R. Santosh Kumar & Divya Pushp · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

Aim: Tuberculosis is one of the oldest human diseases, dating back over 17,000 years based totally on molecular proof. Despite modern diagnostic and treatment approaches, people continue to suffer from tuberculosis, and it tops the list of ten deadly infectious diseases in the wo...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i530463

Analysis of the Challenges to Healthcare Access among the Economically Disadvantaged Population during the Movement Control Order for COVID-19 Pandemic in Selangor - Malaysia

Sohayla M. Attalla, Hazian Bt Hamzah, Win Win May, Chew Zhuo Nan, Fara Nurul Izwarina Bt Side Mohamed, Manpreet Kaur A/P Amarjit Singh, Mariyam Shaimau Saleem, Muvileswari Santhraseharan, Nada Nadiah Bt Muhammad, Pavitra A/P Chinapah, Ramya A/P Thiyakarajan, Shaileash A/L Palanisamy & Vicnes Kumar Sivarajah · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

Background and Aim: The Healthcare systems all over the world were severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the burden is affecting the economically disadvantaged population (B40). This study aims to determine the challenges to healthcare access among B40 populations d...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i530462

Contraceptive Usage Status and its Associated Factors among Adolescents in the Kwahu South District, Eastern Region of Ghana

Edwin Akomaning, Edem Kojo Dzantor, Etornam Abla Tettey, Francisca Abangbila, Adam Mohammed, Appau-Duah Eunice & Asante Emmanuela Dapomaa · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

Unwanted pregnancies account for roughly 30% of all pregnancies in Ghana. Availability of contraceptives and usage is essential to the realization of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) 3.7 which calls for universal access to contraception for use by people of all ages by 203...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i530461

Loneliness, Lifestyles and Lockdowns: Effects on Health

Shashi K. Agarwal · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

Mother Teresa said: “the greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love...” Loneliness is a global phenomenon...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i430458

Neuromelioidosis – A Misleading Clinical Presentation

Dhruvi Reddy Sanikommu & Murugesan Subramanian · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

This is a case of a young female who initially presented with visual symptoms, diagnosed as optic neuritis, and treated with steroids. She recovered completely with therapy and two days later, she developed left hemiplegia, dysarthria, and a drop in sensorium. Imaging with MRI br...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i530460

Estimating Tibia Length: An Anatomical Landmarks Evaluation of Bones and X-ray Radiographs

Sunday Okon Elijah, Aniekan Imoh Peter, Akpan Udo Ekanem, Iboro E. Edet & Micheal O. Oyakhire · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

The ability to estimate the length of the bone is a major step towards estimating the stature of an individual in forensic investigation of mass fatalities where body parts are dismembered, scattered and mixed up. This is so because researchers have established that long bone len...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i430456