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    Common Health Problems and Health Seeking Practices of Elderly People of Tharu Community
    (Faculty of Health Education, 2015) Dhakal, Tanka Nath
    Ageing is universal and a natural process of gradual and spontaneous change. Human ageing is a progressive decline in the homeostatic reserve of every organ system. The decline of each organ system is influenced by disease, hormonal disorder, diet, environment, personal habits, and genetic factors. Degenerative diseases and chronic disorders also affect the ageing. The most common diseases and disorders in this category are visual problem, hearing impairment, heart diseases, respiratory diseases, arthritis, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, etc. Older persons suffer more from chronic illness with compared to younger persons. With the increase in the elderly population, the problems of elderly are also certain to increase. Nepal’s population is ageing and at the same time fertility and mortality level are declining. During the last three decades, the total fertility rate has declined by one third from around 6 children per woman in the 1970s to around 4 at the turn of the century. The older population grew faster (2.73%) than the national population growth rate (2.24%). General objective of this study was to identify the prevalence of six common perceived health problems such as hearing problem, visual problem, coughing problem, dyspnoea, joint pain and backache problem and factors affecting health-seeking practice among elderly people age 60 years and above in Lakhantari VDC of Morang District. The study was carried out equally between both sexes of age 60 years and above. 56 percent of them belong to age group 60-69 years, 31 percent belongs to age group 70-74 years and only 13 percent belongs to age group 75 years and above. The main source of household income was agriculture (70%). Fifty percent elder people were engaged in income generating activities whereas 30 percent were engaged in non-economic activity. Twenty percent elder people were totally dependent. Seventy percent elder people were living with son and daughter in law. Compare to other health problems, the prevalence of joint pain (47%), visual problem (42%) and back-ache (28%) was noticed higher in elder people. Prevalence of health problems were noticed comparatively high in female as well as in the age group 75 and above in both sexes. Treatment seeking behavior of elder people was noticed more than 90 percent. In average, six out of ten elder people seek treatments within the health facility and still 40 percent of them are visiting traditional healers or taking self-medication due to various reasons. Elder people aged 70 years and above were more inclined towards traditional healers where as elder people aged 60-69 years tends self-medication. Sixty six percent elder people preferred to visit local health facility at first when they become ill. Percent preferred to visit health facility was identified higher in female than in male. Utilization of local health facility among elder people during last one year was observed 57 percent. Seven out of ten elder people were residing within the half an hour distance far from the local health facility near by their community. Ninety six percent elder people perceived positive feeling (good and satisfactory) towards treatment they receive from the local facility. Preference to visit health facilities for treatment was found associated with educational status, ethnicity and economic status of the respondents. Health facility visit during last one year (practice) was found associated with sex, ownership of fix assets and knowledge about available health service. Finally it can be concluded that there was high prevalence of common health problems perceived by respondents, high health seeking practice but utilization of available health services by elderly people is low. Further in-depth study is needed to solve these all problems of the elderly people. The family, community and government should pay special attention to promote health and wellbeing and improve the social status of elderly people.
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    Impacts of covid-19 on workers of Itahari, Municipality
    (Department of Health Education, 2021) Bhattarai, Nikita
    This thesis entitled Impacts of COVID-19 on workers of Itahari Municipality is under the syllabus of M.ED. 2nd-year T.U. Education faculty. It was prepared for the fulfillment of our curriculum 598 marks. This study found out that, the impacts of COVID-19 on workers upon physical, social, and mental problems. Then, it was the purpose to find out the employee’s problem by the descriptive pattern. The employees who have selected the Sunsari district, Itahari municipality ward no. 9 and 10. 100 workers for the purposive sampling. For the analysis of this static, I did tabulation, bar- chart and pie chart. The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two. Since its emergence in Asia late last year, the virus has spread to most of the countries. Nepal, a landlocked country aspiring to graduate from a Least Developed Country status, stands highly vulnerable to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. Heedful of its vulnerabilities, the Government of Nepal has enforced a nationwide lockdown and activated its federal, provincial and local level mechanisms to respond to the crisis. While there is an urgent need to strengthen the existing health system to handle the situation in case of any sudden surge of the outbreak, standardize the quarantine facilities and provide immediate relief to the most affected, equally important is to help the country mitigate the socio-economic impacts and prepare for longer-term recovery. Nepal Government has reported over 620K COVID-19 cases as of 20 June 2021. Meanwhile, the secondary impact of the global pandemic is huge and it is already taking a serious toll on an economy that relies heavily on remittances, imports fueled by remittances, informal labor, and tourism revenues.
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    Knowledge and Practice of Hormonal Contraception in Tharu Woman
    (Faculty of Health Education, 2016) Tiwari, Uma Devi
    This is a field based study which is conducted to find out the knowledge and practice of hormonal contraception in Tharu women. 100 respondents(15-49 years) married Tharu women were selected.The main objective of the study is to identity the social economic factors that determine the use of family planning devices in the community to identify the knowledge and practice of hormonal family planning devices, to find out the failure rate of hormonal family planning devices and so on. Hundred households were selected from sampling and researcher collected the data from interview and analyzed descriptively. At last, finding and conclusion has been drawn and the research has recommended and suggested the points. This thesis is structured into five parts. First part deals with the introduction of the title and its theoretical ground. Second part reviews the related literature of the relevant work. Third part deals with the methodology of the study. Fourth part deals with analysis and interpretation of date.Fifty part deals with summary, finings,conclusions and recommendations. In this research, 46.09 percent was male and 53.90 percent was female population where 49 percent respondents were literate and 51 percent were illiterate. Fifty five percent respondents were involved in agriculture and the same percentage (55 percent) families were joint family. Similarly, 47 percent respondents had knowledge of hormonal contraceptive device 65 respondents were known about side effect about contraceptive device, 22 percent respondents were using Depo-Provera, 9 percent respondents were using Pills and 9 percent respondents were using Norplant where 29 percent respondents still not using any kinds of family planning devices. All Depo-Provera and Pills user respondents were unknown about function of Depo-Provera and Pills and hormone contained in both. Two percent failure rate of the hormonal contraceptive device was found in study area. Due to lack of education, lack of good job opportunity, low income, knowledge and awareness programme 25 percent respondents were found not using any kind of family planning device.So,the future population will be high and will create several problems like unemployment, poverty, lack of quality of life, lack of quality education and so on. Similarly, due to socio-cultural value, trust on hormonal contraceptive device and low status of women empowerment, all Norplant user respondents were not known about hormone contained in Norplant.
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    A study of smoking and its effects on health
    (Department of Health Education, 2023) Sardar, Sarita
    Tobacco use is one of the chief preventable causes of death and illness in the world presently, about four million people world wide die yearly from tobacco related disease i.e. one death every eight seconds. If current trends continue, there will be one death every three second by 2030 and a third of them in developing countries. The study was based on descriptive research design, using quantitative data. For the purpose of the study both the primary and secondary data were used. The respondents for the survey were in total 173 students of Bhadgaun Secondary School in Ramdhuni Municipality. The school was selected by purposive sampling method and 105 respondents were used as a tool for the collection of data. This thesis was structured in five parts, first part deals with the introduction of title, theoretical background, second part reviews the related literature of the relevant works, and third part was methodology of the study, fourth part deals with the analysis and interpretation of data last part deals with summary, finding, conclusion and recommendation. The major objectives of this study was to determine the types to find out the impact of tobacco use (both smoked and smokeless tobacco product ) among adolescents in secondary school in Ramdhuni Municipality of Nepal. Among the respondents, 35.2 percent were past used and 25.9 percent respondents used for paan masala, paan parag and gutkha, 25.9 percents followed by cigarette. Then, adolescents reported that at least 47.5 percent respondent's father used tobacco. About 44.2 percent respondent's friend used tobacco. Specially 35.6 percent were used paan masala, pan parag and gutkha 46.6 percents used cigarette. Then, 19 percent were used tobacco in school compound. 39.7 percent respondents save their pocket money for buying any forms of tobacco. Similarly, 85.5 percent respondents were know about the effect of tobacco use. Main point is that 100 percents adolescents have knowledge on the effect of tobacco health. The study revealed that the use of tobacco among adolescents was significantly associated with tobacco use habit of family members and friends, their exposure to pro-tobacco advertisement and environment tobacco smoke. Level of knowledge regarding impact of tobacco and prevalence of tobacco were significant with the tobacco use habit of adolescents. Thus, educational and counseling program for preventing non-users from using tobacco and for helping current and experimental users to quit tobacco use is necessary. Environment in school compound. Therefore, It is urgent to take appropriate steps to discourage such expansion before it is too late.
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    Use of Drinking Water and its Impacts on the Health of Students
    (Faculty of Health Education, 2017) Chaudhary, Ramesh Kumar
    This thesis is entitled "Use of Drinking Water and its Impacts on the health of Students". The objectives of this study were to find out the condition of drinking water in community schools and to find out the impacts of drinking water on on health of the students of community schools. The research design adopted for the present study was descriptive design. Pakali HSS and Bha.Si. HSS School were selected by the purposive sampling method. The total students of Pakali HSS were 964 and Bha.Si. HSS were 526 and 165 students from Pakali HSS and 85 students from Bha.Si. HSS from the secondary level were selected by the purposive sampling method as the respondents. The questionnaire and observation checklist were tools to collect data in schools. The main source of drinking water of 91.6 percent respondents was tubewell, 3.6 percent respondents was tap and 4.8 percent respondents was others. Maximum respondents (96.8 percent) replied that polluted water causes communicable diseases and 3.2 percent doesn't. Cent percent respondents washed their water pot daily. Eighteight percent respondents used some methods to purify drinking water, out of them 61.82 percent used filtering, 34.54 percent boiling, 1.82 percent chemical and 1.82 percent used other methods. 54 percent respondents replied that arsenic of source of drinking water of the schools had been tested and 46 percent replied it had not been. Fourtyeight percent respondents replied that drinking water of the schools has smell and 52 percent replied it did not. Fiftythree point six percent respondents replied that orientation programs of drinking water were conducted and 46.4 percent replied were not. 16.8 percent respondents used tanks, 7.2 percent used jars, 62.4 percent used jugs and 13.6 percent used other things for storing drinking water. After using toilet 1.2 percent respondents used only water, 96.8 percent used water and soap, 1.6 percent used water and kharani and 0.4 percent used other things. Most of the respondents (99.2 percent) replied that they washed hands before eating food and 0.8 percent did not wash. In conclusion, more respondents had positive thinking about drinking water and they did hygienic health practice. Some respondents had felt problem in drinking water of community schools.