The Journey of Herpes Zoster from Myths towards Facts......!! | Chapter 11 | Recent Updates in Disease and Health Research Vol. 7

 

Background: Herpes zoster (HZ) is an acute highly contagious infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV). In India, there is a paucity of population-based studies and data on herpes zoster in reporting herpes zoster cases. Several shreds of evidence reflect that the disease causes a burden on population health in India. Besides several known risk factors, myths, lack of knowledge, attitude, and practices towards treating this infection may affect the quality of life and disease burden. Imparting knowledge, awareness regarding myths and misconceptions, and early approaches for treatment can help prevent disease and complications in the population. The study aims to evaluate the impact of herpes zoster infection awareness programs on myths, knowledge, and practices among the rural population.

Methods: This study is an interventional study that was conducted over 4 months (July to October 2023) in the rural population of western Maharashtra and Families of adopted villages by D.Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur from the rural field practice area of the medical college. Our study variables were myths about herpes zoster infection, knowledge about herpes zoster infection, and attitudes and practices towards the treatment of herpes zoster infection to evaluate the impact of the health awareness program on it.

Results: The awareness program which was the intervention in this study, was effective in increasing the awareness about myths and knowledge about herpes zoster infection as well as the positive impact related to treatment practices for herpes zoster infection among the rural population in the adapted villages in western Maharashtra. For example, this study showed an improvement in the knowledge of the participants after implementing an awareness program. This study showed that after the awareness program, 91.30% of people learned it is a viral disease, and 85.34% learned that it is not a superstitious thing.

Conclusions: The awareness program which was the intervention in this study, was effective in increasing the awareness about myths and knowledge about herpes zoster infection as well as positive impact related to treatment practices for herpes zoster infection among the rural population in the adapted villages in western Maharashtra. To change the attitude and clear the myths need more effort and faith with more conversation, more visits, interactive sessions, more trained, competent, and confident students, volunteers, and community support for a better and more effective impact of this awareness program.

 

Author(s) Details :-

 

Sagar Goyal
D. Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.

Akshay Salgar
Department of Surgery, LTMGH, and TMMC, Sion, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Gayatri G. Dhavalshankh
Department of Pharmacology, D. Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.

Sheetal .
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Sawangi(Meghe), Wardha, Maharashtra, India.

Ganesh P. Dhavalshankh
Department of Dermatology, D. Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.

Archana G. Dhavalshankh
Department of Pharmacology, D. Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.

 

Please see the book here :- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/rudhr/v7/7904C

The Journey of Herpes Zoster from Myths towards Facts......!! | Chapter 11 | Recent Updates in Disease and Health Research Vol. 7

 

Background: Herpes zoster (HZ) is an acute highly contagious infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV). In India, there is a paucity of population-based studies and data on herpes zoster in reporting herpes zoster cases. Several shreds of evidence reflect that the disease causes a burden on population health in India. Besides several known risk factors, myths, lack of knowledge, attitude, and practices towards treating this infection may affect the quality of life and disease burden. Imparting knowledge, awareness regarding myths and misconceptions, and early approaches for treatment can help prevent disease and complications in the population. The study aims to evaluate the impact of herpes zoster infection awareness programs on myths, knowledge, and practices among the rural population.

Methods: This study is an interventional study that was conducted over 4 months (July to October 2023) in the rural population of western Maharashtra and Families of adopted villages by D.Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur from the rural field practice area of the medical college. Our study variables were myths about herpes zoster infection, knowledge about herpes zoster infection, and attitudes and practices towards the treatment of herpes zoster infection to evaluate the impact of the health awareness program on it.

Results: The awareness program which was the intervention in this study, was effective in increasing the awareness about myths and knowledge about herpes zoster infection as well as the positive impact related to treatment practices for herpes zoster infection among the rural population in the adapted villages in western Maharashtra. For example, this study showed an improvement in the knowledge of the participants after implementing an awareness program. This study showed that after the awareness program, 91.30% of people learned it is a viral disease, and 85.34% learned that it is not a superstitious thing.

Conclusions: The awareness program which was the intervention in this study, was effective in increasing the awareness about myths and knowledge about herpes zoster infection as well as positive impact related to treatment practices for herpes zoster infection among the rural population in the adapted villages in western Maharashtra. To change the attitude and clear the myths, need more effort and faith with more conversation, more visits, interactive sessions, more trained, competent, and confident students, volunteers, and community support for a better and more effective impact of this awareness program.

 

Author(s)details:-

 

Sagar Goyal
D. Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.

 

Akshay Salgar
Department of Surgery, LTMGH, and TMMC, Sion, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Gayatri G. Dhavalshankh
Department of Pharmacology, D. Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.

 

Sheetal .
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Sawangi(Meghe), Wardha, Maharashtra, India.

 

Ganesh P. Dhavalshankh
Department of Dermatology, D. Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.

 

Archana G. Dhavalshankh
Department of Pharmacology, D. Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.

 

Please See the book here :-  https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/rudhr/v7/7904C

Oedipus Complex in Traditional China: A Comparative Study towards Myths and Kinship | Chapter 3 | Traditions and Cultural Heritage: Genesis, Reproduction, and Preservation

This article gives a general introduction towards the paradigm of psycho-analysis dealing with Oedipus complex, which thereafter was challenged for its western-centered prejudices by anthropologists with their observations in remote Archipelago societies. Among these, Malinowski’s study about the nuclear complex in Trobriand Islands is the pioneering work. This article follows the conclusion given in the Malinowski’s masterpiece, Sex and Repression in Savage Society, that different social environment and patterns of family organization create different forms of nuclear complex. On the one hand, by generalizing the peculiar characteristics of Chinese familial structure and kinship system mainly demonstrated by Fei Xiaotong, this article makes an attempt on a preliminary analysis towards narrative texts of folklores collected from Chinese Han society to see if there exists the same Oedipus complex with its repression in kinship and expression in myths or not. This article is, on the other hand, a comparative study about forms of patriarchal family between Chinese Han and Western society, aiming at extending the comparative framework between savage society and western modern society, as Malinowski has set up, to an eastern imperial society, China.

Author(s) Details:

Gao Han,
Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Xiamen University, China.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/TCHGRP/article/view/9522

Perceived Ancestral Practices of Cultural and Religious Beliefs in Modern Life of Bapedi People| Chapter 5 | Research Developments in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 6

 

 Bapedi individuals express their customary convictions in ceremonies, legends, and restrictions. Among Bapedi individuals black magic is connected to all ailments and fears, and as such is existential danger to the Bapedi people group and culture. For restorative, custom, hallowed purposes and thinking, a few trees or spices are known to be a higher priority than others in the Bapedi culture and custom. Religion is a significant piece of Bapedi custom. Religion and otherworldliness are utilized to make more noteworthy comprehension and congruity, advance social attachment and concrete kinship. Conventional Bapedi religion is exceptionally famous, and depends on oral practice, and that implies that the fundamental qualities and lifestyle of the Bapedi public are communicated from older folks to youthful age. Bapedi custom is certainly not a strict rule, however a social personality that is sent through native music, stories, legends, and narrating. In the Bapedi culture, there are spiritualists or conventional healers who are liable for mending as a social peculiarity and 'divining', and divination bones are utilized to analyze black magic, wellbeing related issues or diseases, fortune, great wellbeing, prosperity and suitable customary meds for counteraction or end of the analyzed issues or potentially sicknesses. In the Bapedi culture, as in different societies in the landmass, conventional mending calling is a calling, and not every person can wish to turn into a customary healer. Conventional healers must be called by their own precursors to become customary healers. During concentrated preparing, they procure numerous abilities on the determination and utilization of spices for the purpose of mending, singing, instrumental playing (drumming), moving, and more mysterious abilities, such as speaking with the individual precursor of a learner to unveil the shade of either the goat or cow to be butchered for the predecessor love. This study looks to analyze tribal convictions of the Bapedi public and the connection among 'conviction' and 'custom' inside Bapedi individuals' social setting. The focal point of this study is to investigate and archive these connections inside the setting of the Bapedi culture. Three interrelated research questions hence directed this review: a) What is 'legend' and how can it vary from a 'conviction'? What is the social importance of genealogical convictions in contemporary Bapedi society? what's more, c) how do familial convictions connect with present day Bapedi social practices? To resolve these inquiries, three significant classes of stories (accounts of beginning, pedantic stories and logical stories) in the Bapedi culture were talked about. These accounts rose up out of perceptions, meets, and broke down research information. The review utilized a context oriented approach and information was gathered through perceptions, eye to eye meetings, and video accounts of strict customs. Optional sources included distributed books and Journal articles. The examination has uncovered that conviction and custom in the Bapedi religion and conviction frameworks complete and complete one another, in this way permitting the amicable harmony of meta and paralinguistic components in religio-social talk. During the review, it was additionally settled that native Bapedi otherworldliness includes customs, fantasies, tribal convictions and practices, insight, values and mentalities in view of progenitors' encounters. It was reasoned that legend ought not be decreased to custom nor custom to fantasy, since they complete and complete one another.

Author(s) Details:

Morakeng Edward Kenneth Lebaka,
Department of Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zululand – kwadlangezwa Campus, South Africa.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RDASS-V6/article/view/7864