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Item Causes and consequences of drug addiction: A case study from Surkhet valley, Nepal(Department of Sociology, 2011) Khanal, Tirtha PrasadNot availableItem Experience of Pubertal Changes and its Adjustment among Adolescent Girls in Higher Secondary School(Department of Sociology, 2012) Shrestha, Krishna DeviNot availableItem Impacts of covid-19 on workers of Itahari, Municipality(Department of Health Education, 2021) Bhattarai, NikitaThis 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.Item Knowledge among Adolsence on Stis, Hiv and Aids(Faculty of Education, 2011) Lamichhane, Bhanu BhaktaThis study entitled "Knowledge among Adolescence on STIs and HIV/AIDS in Gaindakot VDC" was carried out in order to assess the existing knowledge about STIs and HIV/AIDS among adolescence to find out health problems related to STIs and HIV/AIDS. Majority 99% of the respondents had heard about STIs and HIV/AIDS but they were unaware about different modes of transmission signs and symptoms of STIs and HIV/AIDS. Most of the respondents were unaware about the transmission of STIs and HIV/AIDS. 52% of the respondents had known that HIV/AIDS and STIs are the communicable diseases. 94% of the adolescence had known about the infected mother can pass HIV virus to her new born baby and unsterliazed infected needle may spread HIV/AIDS through blood transfusion. Most of them had heard about the condom. There are various factors that hinder the awareness about STIs and HIV/AIDS among adolescence such as educational status, effective advertising programs from T.V., radio, news paper, and awareness programmes etc. and the main problem found in the study area was that the adolescence mainly girls could not talk about sexual behavior. Which has become the big problem to the safe sexual behaviour. Due to shyness, it is found that they didn't express their problems and early used to go for treatment and some of the respondents were unaware about the treatment of the STIs and HIV/AIDS. Having such traditional condition of healthy behavior may possibilities of transmission of AIDS and STIs is seen in the study area.Item User's Perception and Practices on Over-The- Counter Medication in Pokhara (A Study of Selected Pharmacies in Pokhara,Kaski(Department of Anthropology, 2019) Gurung, Tul BahadurDrugs which are sold directly to the consumer without a prescription from a health care profession are called Over-the-counter (OTC) medicines. The sale of over-the-counter medicines from the pharmacies can help individuals to self manage symptoms. However, some OTC medicines may be abused with addiction and may harm. People after having some health problems seek the health care settings on the type of practice they usually do. Some of them visit hospital, consult physicians and take the prescribed medicines. Some go through the home care techniques. Some attend to the traditional healers. The rate of incidence of OTC medicines' use is increasing globally day by day. Lives of the people are becoming busier these days and have little time or no to care their health. And at the same time, the treatments are becoming expensive these days. Realizing such situations, this research was carried out to examine the knowledge and perception of OTC users and to analyze the pattern of use of OTC medicines in relation to influencing factors in pokhara. Data was collected from 108 informants from three selected medical halls. Descriptive type of research was done to describe the characteristics of informants. Non probability sampling was chosen to collect the data. The data to be collected were purposive. Semi-structured interview schedule was developed in accordance to fulfillment of the research objective. Then, the data were collected through interviewing directly with the informants at the selected pharmacies. The data collected was mostly quantitative in nature. Interview was the technique employed to collect the required data. Statistical methods were used for the analysis of the quantitative data. In this study, 87% of the informants had developed positive attitudes towards the pharmacists and found a good source of information about minor health problems, 77.8% of the informants' preferred visiting pharmacy rather than visiting doctor. Almost all 93.5% were aware that the medicine if changed in color, odor and change in the shape i.e. breakage should be discarded.81.5% reported that the source of knowledge about OTC medicine was pharmacy.78.7% of the informants reported that the OTC drugs are primarily used for minor illness and injuries. (77.8%) found their health problems were treated successfully by OTC medicines.OTC medicines were commonly used for fever, cold, sore throat, decongestant and cough and aches/pain/headaches. 64.8% of the research reported that they visit the nearby pharmacy/ medical hall after fallen sick. 76.9% initiated self OTC medications by themselves.70.4% purchase OTC medicines telling the symptoms to the pharmacist.70.4% of the informants always check the expiry date of the OTC medicine. 72.2% of the informants reported that they asked the detailed information about the medicine regarding the dose, the frequency for taking medicine, the time to take medicine , It was concluded that more informants preferred visiting pharmacy rather than visiting doctors and hospitals though there is availability of advanced types of services in the hospital. This happened so due to the unavailability of the doctors on time, the crowd, they should be on queue for each and every procedure and found lengthy process. The popularity of OTC medication use among patients may increase the abuse potential of OTC material.OTC medication abuse can be prevented by developing appropriate intervention strategies.