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1. Health Communication in Media: An Analytical Study of Coverage of World Blood Donor Day in Leading National Dailies from Jaipur.

Author

Pandey, Hemant Kumar, Kumar, Subhash, and Dixit, Prabhat

Subjects
*PUBLISHING, *RESEARCH, *HEALTH education, *MASS media, *PHYSICIANS' attitudes, *INTERVIEWING, *NEWSPAPERS, *HEALTH, *INFORMATION resources, *SPECIAL days, *QUESTIONNAIRES, *CONTENT analysis
Abstract

Print media is the oldest media for news and information. It includes newspapers, magazines, journals and other printed material etc. The print media is responsible for reporting the latest and accurate news and information. The common people find the plethora of thoughts from the newspapers so that they can formulate their own opinions, ideas and judgment about the issues. Health related stories are an important part of the information published in the newspapers. In this research paper the researcher has undertaken content analysis of four national dailies published from Jaipur city over a period of three years (2019, 2020 & 2021) on their coverage of 'World Blood Donor Day'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2021
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2. Epi Info™ a mHealth tool for primary field data collection in subsample population of Uttarakhand- A cross sectional study.

Author

Aggarwal, Pradeep, Kakkar, Rakesh, Bijalwan, Rajiv, Kaur, Gagan Deep, Pandey, Vivek Kumar, and Kumar, Santosh

Subjects
*CHI-squared test, *DATABASES, *MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems, *INTERVIEWING, *RESEARCH, *SURVEYS, *ADOLESCENT health, *TELEMEDICINE, *JUDGMENT sampling, *FIELD research, *SOCIOECONOMIC factors, *CONTENT mining, *CROSS-sectional method, *CLOUD computing, *RESEARCH methodology evaluation, *MOBILE apps, *DATA analysis software, *DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Abstract

Background: A deficient data is among the biggest obstacle facing planners and policy makers. Health data collection in the developing world is often hampered by the high costs and inefficiencies of traditional large-scale paper-based surveys. mHealth using Epi-Info is most appropriate tool to create, share, deploy health surveys and for strengthening of health systems. The program runs on free and open software, is easy to use, and can be downloaded to handheld devices to be used by workers in the field. Objectives: To find out the usefulness and limitations of data collection for mHealth by use of Epi Info™ software. Material and Methods: The devices used Epi Info 7.1.5 (Android version), which has been modeled as a database with variables of the traditional form. A cross sectional survey among adolescents regarding their health needs was carried out in a sample of 200 adolescents (purposive sampling) of rural hilly (Jaunpur block of Tehri Garhwal district) and plain (Doiwala block of Dehradun district) areas of Uttarakhand by the use of Android tablets with Epi Info™. Results: It was found that adolescent questionnaire tool developed in Epi Info™ android tablet application is a powerful tool for data collection having numerable practical advantages like: Interview Time Tracking (ITT) that gives the reality check in field studies along with cases Geographical presentation by GIS mapping. In addition to this complete filling of data in field so no left over or guessing for data entry operator, paperless, bio-friendly. Despite of Tablet cost, it is cost effective as tablet can be repeatedly used for other surveys. Conclusions: Epi Info™ is a developing open access software for primary data collection and analyzing data from the field, with advantageous benefits of epidemiological surveys. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2016