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Item Food Habits and its Impacts on Health of Dom Community in Dharan Municipality Sunsari(Faculty of Health Education, 2014) Shakya, BharatThis thesis entitles "Food Habits of Dom Community and its impacts on their Health" has been carried out to find out socio- demographic characters, identify the food habits of Dom Community of the study area and health condition of Dom Community. The researcher has used the Dom community as the sample population and has chosen the 50 Dom families of Dharan Municipality using purposive sampling. Similarly the researcher has collected data from interview and analyzed descriptively. At last, Findings and conclusion has been drawn and the researcher 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 data. Fifth part deals with summary, findings conclusions and recommendations. In this research, it was found that most of Dom people take food two to three times a day. It is found that 70 percent Dom people were suffering from different type of weakness of body. Average quantity of rice taken in launch is 280 gm. They prefer tea- biscuits, noodles or bitten rice as their breakfast. 60% of Dom never consumes milk and snacks. They have to eat meat daily in dinner. Most of Dom people (66%) used junk food, they aren't conscious about their food habits. 24 percent Dom people home is dirty. Only 28 percent Dom people drink filter water. There is clear indication of the study that the time to get food and the items used while getting food both are not sure and fixed. There seems direct impact of food habits in health condition of the Dom people. Other risks like accidents, psychological harassments and over work are adverse reality to their health.Item Food Habits of Insectivorous Bats of Mahendra and Nagarjun Caves, Nepal(Department of Zoology, 2013) Pokhrel, SantoshFood habits of bats of Mahendra Cave, Pokhara and Nagarjun Cave, Kathmandu were studied using fecal analysis. Three white polythene plastic sheets (1 m x 1m size) were placed for 24 hours under the roosting sites of each cave on starting and ending days of March and September of 2011 to collect fresh bat droppings. All together 120 droppings(60 from each cave) were randomly selected, observed under stereoscope to identify insects orders and families. Altogether ten insect orders were reportedviz. Coleoptera,Diptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Odonata, Orthoptera, Trichoptera and Thysanoptera. The identified families were included highest in Diptera(seven families), following Coleoptera (six families), Orthoptera (five families),Hymenoptera (three families), Hemiptera (three families) and Thysanoptera (one family).In addition, spider and mites were also reported. The percentage volume of the dietcontained highest food items in Coleoptera (35.35%) and Orthoptera (24%) in Spring and Autumn respectively in Mahendra Cave. The other insects were Hymenoptera, Diptera,Hemiptera, Homoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera and Trichoptera. But in NagarjunCave, Diptera was major portion of the diet in Spring (28%) and Autumn (24%). Theother food items belong to Orthoptera, Thysanoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera including spiders and mites. In Mahendra Cave, an average percentage of frequency of Coleopteran food items contained 63.33% followed by Orthoptera (46.66%) in Spring. But Orthoptera occupied(50%) followed by Coleoptera (26.66%) in Autumn. In Nagarjun Cave, Diptera was highest in both seasons. The diversity of insects consumed in Autumn and Spring in Mahendra Cave was more or less similar (H'-077 and H'-070) with Nagarjun Cave (H'-076 and H'-071) respectively.Item An Integrated Approach to the Control and Prevention of Intestinal Parasitic Infection(Department of Zoology, 2007) Shakya, MeenuParasitic infection to human has been found increasing and recognized as an important public health problem in Chovar area of Kirtipur Municipality. A community based study on intestinal parasites was carried out in ward no. 13 and 14. A household survey was carried out to determine knowledge, attitude and practice regarding intestinal parasites by means of structural questionnaire in children of age group of 3-12 years in 2006. A total of 179 stool samples were collected and examined by fecal smear method. Among them 40.78%were found infected by different kinds of intestinal parasites. Among the positive samples prevalence rate in male children was 54.79% and 45.21% in female children. There was no significant difference in prevalence in two sexes. The prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides was found to be 50.82%, Trichuris trichiura 9.83%, Hookworm 4.91% and Strongyloide stercoralis 8.33%in helminthes while Giardia lamblia 22.95%, Entamoeba histolytica 9.83% and Cyclospora sp. 1.64% in protozoan parasites. Out of 73 positive samples 83.56% were found with prevalence of single species infection where Ascaris lumbricoides and Giardia lamblia were found to be most dominant helminthes and protozoan parasites respectively. Similarly, 16.43% were found with prevalence of double species infection but no triple or further multiple infections was found. Regarding the age group, high prevalence was found in 9-10 years age (69.56%) in male children where as 10-12 years age-group in female children (36.36%). There was no significant difference in prevalence in different age groups (χ2=10.02, P>0.05). In case of ethnic group, the prevalence in children of Newar community was found to be high with51% infection rate while 30.64% in Chhetri and 17.64% in Brahmin. The finding of survey study revealed that 179 children, higher prevalence was noted from non-vegetarians (44.09%) than that of vegetarians (11.11%). There was significant difference in prevalence in relation to food habit. The prevalence of intestinal parasites was found highest (66.67%) among them who defecate at open places, drink direct tap water (89.04%), do not cut nails regularly (100%) and do not wash hands with soap water before eating food and after playing outdoor games (90.47%) . The survey had shown that 64.24% households contain domestic birds/animals and there was significant difference in prevalence on the basis of types of domestic birds/animals with them (χ2=30.32, P<0.05). Only a few used to examine the stool and take anti-helminthes drugs at certain interval of time. The survey had shown that the high prevalence of intestinal parasites was found in those respondents who believe in traditional methods of treatment for abdominal discomforts (77.78%). The survey had also shown that very few respondents know about medicinal plants used against intestinal parasitic diseases and there was no significant difference in prevalence on the basis of knowledge about medicinal plants (χ2=9.96, P<0.05).