Browsing by Author "Banerjee, Indrajit"

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Application of Binary Regression Analysis in the Prescription Pattern of Antidepressants
(2013) Banerjee, Indrajit; Banerjee, Indraneel; Roy, Bedanta; Sathian, Brijesh
"In Nepal several research studies are reported using percentages or cross tabulation method, but the relevance of logistic regression methodology in research is lag behind among the researchers. A hospital based study was done between 1st October 2009 and 31st March 2010 at Psychiatry Ward of Manipal Teaching Hospital, Nepal. Z test, Chi square test and Binary logistic regression were used for the analysis. We calculated odds ratios (OR) and their 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) P-value < 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. Different codes were used, the target was coded as 1 and the reference group as 0. The results of the study were interesting as far as the gender is concerned, male and female patients were 44.7% and 55.3% respectively, 95% CI [28.9, 60.5 and 39.5, 71.1]. Depression was more common in housewives 42.1%. Fluoxetine was the commonest antidepressants to be prescribed 42.1%. Psychiatrists has a tendency of prescribing essential drugs if monthly income <10000, 1.063 times as compared to monthly income >10000, 2.63 times more in Hindus and 1.197 times more in Brahmins than any other ethnic groups. 9.179 times more tendency of prescribing antidepressants by trade names in case of unemployed patients as compared to employed patients in Nepal. Binary Logistic regression plays an important role to understand the drug utilization pattern of mood elevators in Western Nepal.
Impact of Gender, Nationality and Drawbacks in Medical Profession as a Predictor of Future Career Specialization among Medical Students
(2013) Roy, Bedanta; Banerjee, Indraneel; Banerjee, Indrajit; Sathian, Brijesh
"Diverse factors play a crucial role on the Career Preferences among medical students. Hospital-based clinical specialties are always preferred. Nepal had very scanty data on this topic. So this study was designed to examine the influence of gender and nationality, some other dominant factors including drawbacks in future career preferences. A questionnaire-based study was carried out in the Basic and clinical Sciences Campus of Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal. Students from Nepal, India and Sri Lanka participated in the study. The questionnaire included awareness and liking of different subjects for post-graduation, decision age for MBBS and various other factors. Descriptive statistics and testing of hypothesis were used for the analysis. The Chi-square test was performed. Data was analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for Windows Version 16.0. Data was collected from 269 students and among them were 110 Nepalese (40.9%), 85 Indian (31.6%) and 74 Sri Lankan (27.5%). Indian students had relatively more awareness about their future career. Females were more aware about future career and happy with routine work, diversity in work, physical and team work. Communication skills, long relation with patients, simple complaints and stressful work attract males. Surgery, OBG, Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, Cardiology were the most desirable specialty among both genders. The findings of this study were imperative and provide ample career guidance for future doctors to fill the gap in different specialties. Constructive steps like encouragement, counseling can be helpful in this context."
Medical Science: Towards Better Standard and Quality
(2013) Banerjee, Indrajit
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Teaching Communication Skills: A Five Year Experience from a Private Medical School of Nepal
(2013) Banerjee, Indrajit
"Communication with the patient is an art. A medical professional can earn a lot of degrees but communicating with the patient always remains a problem for some of them. Communication plays a key role to make him/her successful in Life. Communication Skill is an important part of the pharmacology teaching and learning session followed at Manipal College of Medical Sciences. Most of the textbooks that are commonly followed in Nepal merely tell about communication skills. In Communication Skills it is taught that how to speak/communicate with the patient right from the beginning when a student is admitted to the medical school. This activity makes the student confident. Some of the important concepts of Communication Skill are mentioned in this paper."