Status of contact screening and isoniazid preventive therapy for children under age six in Puducherry district, under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme: An operational research by Ariarathinam Newtonraj, Anil Jacob Purty, Mani Manikandan

“…Conclusions: Implementation of IPT in Puducherry district was satisfactory, and still, there is a hope to improve further. …”
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Profile of risk factors for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in a highly urbanized district of India: Findings from Puducherry district-wide STEPS Survey, 2019-20. by Parthibane Sivanantham, Jayaprakash Sahoo, Subitha Lakshminarayanan, Zachariah Bobby, Sitanshu Sekhar Kar

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>We found high prevalence of various NCDs and its risk factors among the adult population of Puducherry district.…”
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Epidemiological profiling of fatal road crashes in Puducherry, South Coastal India by N Anand, Biju Soman, Manivel Prakash

“…Between April and June 2019, secondary data on fatal road crashes in Puducherry district for 3-year period (2016, 2017, and 2018) were accessed from traffic police records and analyzed. …”
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Haematological screening and its correlation with sociodemographic profile among the indigenous communities in and around Puducherry by Rakhee Kar, Jeyanthi Anand, Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Narkiss Banu, Dheebika Kuppusamy, Parthibane Sivanantham, Maitreyee Bhattacharyya

“…Methods: This was a community-based cross-sectional study conducted in both urban and rural areas of Puducherry district. We included 556 participants through convenient sampling. …”
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Assessment on quality of healthcare services during childbirth: A community-based mixed-method study in the women of Puducherry by Lalithambigai Chellamuthu, Sadhvika Kanagat, Senkadhirdasan Dakshinamurthy, Abhijit Vinodrao Boratne

“…Material and Methods: A community-based, mixed-method study was conducted from April to September 2021 in field practice areas of a medical college in Puducherry district. The sample size for the quantitative study was 348 and the women were chosen using a multi-stage sampling technique. …”
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Self reported health status and its determinants among elderly widows in Puducherry, India by Nirmala Saravanan Narayanasamy, Arindam Das, Audinaraya Narayanasamy, Ranjan Kumar Prusty

“…Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 360 elderly widows from Puducherry district, 260 urban and 130 from rural areas. …”
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Catastrophic costs of tuberculosis care: a mixed methods study from Puducherry, India by Thirunavukkarasu Prasanna, Kathiresan Jeyashree, Palanivel Chinnakali, Yogesh Bahurupi, Kavita Vasudevan, Mrinalini Das

“…Study setting was free care under national tuberculosis program (NTP), Puducherry district, India. Objectives: The objectives of the study were among the newly diagnosed and previously treated tuberculosis (TB) patients, to (a) estimate patient costs during diagnosis and intensive phase of treatment, (b) determine the proportion of households experiencing catastrophic costs, and (c) explore coping strategies. …”
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Factors for hesitancy towards vaccination against COVID-19 among the adult population in Puducherry, India – a cross sectional study by Raja Jeyapal Dinesh, Rajendran Dhanalakshmi, Priskilla Johnson Jency, Adinarayanan Srividya, Balakrishnan Vijayakumar, Ashwani Kumar

“…Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted among 776 adults aged ≥ 18 years in 15 clusters in Puducherry district, India, between March 2022 and May 2022. …”
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