Browsing by Author "Raghav, Pankaja Ravi"

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    Family-centered Health Education Intervention for Improving Iron?folic Acid Adherence and Anemia Reduction among Antenatal Mothers in Rural Jodhpur: A Quasi-experimental Study
    (Wolters Kluwer – Medknow, 2024-12) Singh, Gyanendra; Ranjitha, R.; Baskaran, Pritish; Goel, Akhil Dhanesh; Gupta, Manoj Kumar; Dileepan, S.; Choudhary, Yachana; Rehana, V. R.; Raghav, Pankaja Ravi
    Background: Anemia is one of the global public health concerns. Despite the availability of effective treatment options, reducing its prevalence remains challenging. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to investigate family-centered health education intervention in improving iron ? folic acid adherence and anemia status, knowledge, attitude, and practices. Materials and Methods: A quasi-experimental community interventional trial was conducted. Employing a multistage cluster-randomized sampling technique, intervention and control areas were identified. All pregnant women of gestational age 14–16 weeks with mild and moderate anemia were included and interviewed along with hemoglobin and ferritin estimation. Results: Change in adherence, knowledge, attitude, practice, and anemia status was assessed after the follow-up period for both groups. The results revealed significant improvements in knowledge, attitude, practice, adherence to iron supplements, and anemia status within the intervention group. The participants with moderate anemia decreased from an initial value of 38.66% to 7.25%, whereas mild anemia reduced from 61.33% to 21.74%. Moreover, the mean hemoglobin level showed a significant difference from 9.8 ± 1.3 g/dL at baseline to 10.8 ± 0.5 g/dL at the end line, whereas the serum ferritin level increased from 12.5 ± 8.7 ?g/dL to 19.0 ± 7.6 ?g/ dL. The difference-in-difference analysis revealed 0.78 g/dL hemoglobin and 4.72 ?g/dL ferritin improvement in the intervention group is due to family-centered health education. Conclusion: Family-centered health education in multiple modes of intervention improved the adherence to iron supplements and anemia status and increased the knowledge, attitude, and practices toward the same, among pregnant women along with their family members.
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    Insight for rabies prevention among travellers.
    (2014-01) Raghav, Pankaja Ravi; Bhardwaj, Pankaj; Saxena, Deepak B
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    Knowledge assessment about risk prevention of rabies amongst doctors in AIIMS, Jodhpur.
    (2014-10) Kumar, Dewesh; Raghav, Pankaja Ravi; Singh, Mahendra; Bhardwaj, Pankaj
    Background: Rabies still continues to be a public health problem in India and to protect our citizens from this menace; medical professionals have to be well equipped to tackle it more efficiently. The paper aims to assess the knowledge of residents and faculty in newly established AIIMS regarding risk prevention of rabies. Methods: A cross sectional study using a structured questionnaire on rabies was done at AIIMS Jodhpur amongst the doctors and the data was compiled in Microsoft excel 2010 were further analysed using SPSS version 21. Results: Out of the total sixty respondents, faculty constituted 38.3%, and junior residents and senior residents 28.3% and 33.3% respectively. Nearly 72% responded correctly regarding post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) i.e. 5 dose regimen of intramuscular administration of Anti Rabies Vaccine (ARV) and 56.7% doctors were unaware about the current recommendation of intradermal (ID) route. Rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) or Anti-Rabies Serum (ARS) against Rabies infection used in Class III bites was known to only 45% of the total doctors. Conclusion: The study reveals that there is a scope of improvement in important areas related to the knowledge of doctors in AIIMS regarding animal bites which needs to be upgraded time to time through continuing medical education in order to follow the standard protocol and guidelines at the apex institute.