Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Anuradha ¹, Amandeep Kaur ¹, Mukesh Nagar ¹, Jagbir Malik ¹, Varun Arora ¹, Savita Chahal ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Community Medicine Pt. BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, IN
2 Department of Psychiatry, Pt. BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Domestic violence against women is a widespread, deeply ingrained evil, which has serious impact on health and well-being of the females. It is important to know the reasons for domestic violence for timely intervention. To study the reasons for domestic violence against married females of Haryana. It is a cross sectional study carried out on 880 currently married females of reproductive age group in both rural and urban areas of Haryana using Women's Questionnaire to find the prevalence of domestic violence. A specially designed semi structured questionnaire was administered to participants to assess the reasons for domestic violence. In rural area, the common causes of initiation of violence were arguing, substance abuse and poor family income. Arguing, substance abuse and refusal for sex were the common reasons stated by urban women. Breach of privacy was the most common reason reported by victims for not seeking help.

Keywords

Domestic Violence, reasons, arguing, substance abuse

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Anuradha ¹, Raghavendra Huchchannavar ¹, Vinod Chayal ¹, Savita Chahal ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Community Medicine, Pt.BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, IN
2 Department of Psychiatry, Pt.BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Although menstruation is a natural process, it is linked with several misconceptions and practices, which sometimes result into adverse health outcomes. Learning about menstrual hygiene is a vital aspect of health education for adolescent girls. (i) To find out the status of menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls. (ii) To explorethe beliefs, dietary habits and perceptions regarding menstruation among the study population. A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted among 110 adolescent school girls with the help of a pre-designed and pre-tested questionnaire regarding menstrual hygiene. The mean age of menarche was 12.4 years. Majority of the girls (66.4%) preferred using both sanitary pads and cloth pieces. Only 11.25% girls used sanitary pads during the entire menstruation. Practices of cleanliness were unsatisfactoryamong 43 (39.1%) girls. Eighty four (76.4%) girls had dietary restrictions, 85.5% girls were restricted to visit temples and 62.7% girls were prohibited entry to kitchen during periods. Menstrual hygiene is far from satisfactory among a large proportion of the adolescent girls with rampant ignorance, false perceptions and unsafe practices regarding menstruation. This emphasizes upon the need to encourage safe and hygienic practices among the adolescent girls and bring them out of traditional beliefs, misconceptions and restrictions with the active involvement of medical and paramedical health professionals.

Keywords

Adolescent girl, menstrual hygiene, misconceptions, restrictions

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Savita Chahal ¹, Anuradha ¹, Deepika Govil ¹, Deepak Kumar ², Nikhil Govil ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Community Medicine PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, IN
2 Department of Medicine Rajindra Hospital, Patiala, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Family caregivers of people with dementia, often called the second doctors, are critical to the quality of life of the care recipients. The support of the caregivers is intrinsic to good dementia care; therefore their role needs to be acknowledged in maintaining individuals with dementia in community.Good and appropriate communication skills, helping them maintain independence and autonomy, providing safe environment, simplification of tasks, structuring of daily routine, and provision of adequate nutrition, engaging them in physical and cognitive exercises are some of the simple but valuable things which caregivers can do for dementia patients. At the same time they experience high rates of burden and psychological morbidity as well as social isolation, physical ill-health, and financial hardship which needs to identified and managed timely.

Keywords

Family Caregivers, Alzheimers dementia, Safety, Communication, Autonomy, Burden

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Anuradha ¹, Jagbir Malik ¹, Savita Chahal ², Amandeep Kaur ², Varun Arora ², Mukesh Nagar ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Community Medicine, Pt. BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, IN
2 Department of Psychiatry, Pt. BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Domestic violence against women is a widespread, deeply ingrained evil, which has serious impact on health and well-being of the females. It is important to know the reasons for domestic violence for timely intervention. The objective of the study is to find out the reasons for domestic violence against married females of Haryana. It is a cross-sectional study carried out on 880 currently married females of reproductive age group in both rural and urban areas of Haryana using Women's Questionnaire to find the prevalence of domestic violence. A specially designed semi structured questionnaire was administered to participants to assess the reasons for domestic violence. It was found that in rural area, the common causes of initiation of violence were arguing, substance abuse and poor family income. Arguing, substance abuse and refusal for sex were the common reasons stated by urban women. Breach of privacy was the most common reason reported by victims for not seeking help.

Keywords

Domestic Violence, Reasons, Arguing, Substance Abuse.

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