Publications by Sushil Patel
Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is recognized as an important cause of premature death and dis... more Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is recognized as an important cause of premature death and disability globally. In India, about 50.9 million people suffer from diabetes and this figure is likely to go upto 80 million by 2025, making it the "Diabetic Capital" of the world. Evidences signposts that appropriate health education program could improve the knowledge of diabetic patients and change their attitude. Therefore, this study aims to document the baseline knowledge about diabetes; followed which an intervention and change in knowledge level among Type-2 diabetes patients in Gujarat, India.
Background: Health advocacy is vital for the attainment of better health outcomes. First step in ... more Background: Health advocacy is vital for the attainment of better health outcomes. First step in the process of advocacy is to identify the problems followed by potential interventions. Along with the need of advocacy, one needs to understand and recognize that the sustainability and effectiveness of any program can be enhanced only by the commitment of policymakers. Keeping this background, this study tried to document that, how advocacy works to make a health system responsive to control diabetes burden in one of the western Indian state, Gujarat.
Papers by Sushil Patel
Integrative Obesity and Diabetes, 2016
Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is recognized as an important cause of premature death and dis... more Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is recognized as an important cause of premature death and disability globally. In India, about 50.9 million people suffer from diabetes and this figure is likely to go upto 80 million by 2025, making it the "Diabetic Capital" of the world. Evidences signposts that appropriate health education program could improve the knowledge of diabetic patients and change their attitude. Therefore, this study aims to document the baseline knowledge about diabetes; followed which an intervention and change in knowledge level among Type-2 diabetes patients in Gujarat, India. Methods: This is a multi-centric prospective study with a phase of intervention among the diabetic patients in three diverse districts Mehsana (Rural), Chota Udaipur (Tribal), Ahmedabad (Urban) of Gujarat, India. A pre-tested pilot validated questionnaire in vernacular language has been administered to 713 and 577 Type-2 diabetic patients in baseline and endline respectively. Data on knowledge about diabetes causes, symptoms, complications, management practices were collected. Data were entered and monitored in Epi Info 7 and analyzed by IBM SPSS 20 software. Result: Baseline knowledge about diabetes causes, symptoms and complications found to be poor in this study. Change in knowledge and improved practices were revealed in endline survey because of an appropriate intervention program. Conclusion: This study found that the knowledge and practices about management of diabetes could be changed with suitable designed community based intervention programs.
International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health, 2016
Background: Health advocacy is vital for the attainment of better health outcomes. First step in ... more Background: Health advocacy is vital for the attainment of better health outcomes. First step in the process of advocacy is to identify the problems followed by potential interventions. Along with the need of advocacy, one needs to understand and recognize that the sustainability and effectiveness of any program can be enhanced only by the commitment of policymakers. Keeping this background, this study tried to document that, how advocacy works to make a health system responsive to control diabetes burden in one of the western Indian state, Gujarat. Objectives: Present study aims to document the initiatives undertaken by the Government for control of diabetes followed by advocacy at different level of the health system. Materials and Methods: Interventions in the form of training and advocacy mobilization were carried out in three districts of Gujarat namely Mehsana district (Rural), Vadodara district (Tribal), and Ahmedabad district (Urban). Responses by the health system were documented with reference to diabetes management and access to diabetic care. Results: Awareness about availability of services was done with frontline health workers. Participation of medical college in training of health-care providers, improved the capacity and managerial effectiveness on diabetic management. Specific budgetary provision for diabetes management, improved availability of antidiabetes drugs by public-private-partnership (PPP) and supply of Auto-Analyzer to all the health facilities and enhancing Management of Information System (MIS) through advocacy found to be effective. Conclusion: Targeted advocacy at different level was successful. Key advocacy strategies such as training to all health-care providers, involving community-level health workers with incentives improving access to diabetic care, ensuring availability of diabetic drugs through PPP and developing MIS increased reporting of diabetes cases. Further studies are required in other parts of developing nation to understand the key strategies applicable to respective settings.
National Journal of Community Medicine
Swine flu is caused by novel Influenza A H1N1 virus that causes pandemic in the world within shor... more Swine flu is caused by novel Influenza A H1N1 virus that causes pandemic in the world within short period of time. Government of India had institute a series of preventive actions and efforts to improve the awareness of swine flu in general public. The aim of this study is to evaluate general awareness and attitude towards swine flu amongst the patients. This was a cross sectional study of 50 randomly selected patients who attended swine flu OPD in a tertiary center using pretested questionnaire. Among participants 86% were male and 14% were females with more than 90% having education above primary schooling level. Major source of information for swine flu was news paper(34%) and TV(29%). 90% of patients came for the first time to a public hospital for swine flu testing. Most of the patients were aware of the mode of spread and its prevention methods. Almost half of participants believed that it’s a deadly disease and movement of the people from the affected area should be restricte...
National Journal of Community Medicine
Swine flu is caused by novel Influenza A H1N1 virus that causes pandemic in the world within shor... more Swine flu is caused by novel Influenza A H1N1 virus that causes pandemic in the world within short period of time. Government of India had institute a series of preventive actions and efforts to improve the awareness of swine flu in general public. The aim of this study is to evaluate general awareness and attitude towards swine flu amongst the patients. This was a cross sectional study of 50 randomly selected patients who attended swine flu OPD in a tertiary center using pretested questionnaire. Among participants 86% were male and 14% were females with more than 90% having education above primary schooling level. Major source of information for swine flu was news paper(34%) and TV(29%). 90% of patients came for the first time to a public hospital for swine flu testing. Most of the patients were aware of the mode of spread and its prevention methods. Almost half of participants believed that it’s a deadly disease and movement of the people from the affected area should be restricte...
National Journal, 2010
This study was conducted to create awareness about Leptospirosis, an important zoonotic disease, ... more This study was conducted to create awareness about Leptospirosis, an important zoonotic disease, in two villages of Navsari district using street play and poster exhibition. The pre-intervention assessment revealed poor knowledge scores on various aspect of leptospirosis which significantly improved after intervention (p<0.05). Street play in local language and pictorial posters are effective health educational tools amongst illiterates and repeated use, before the transmission season, for maximum impact.
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Publications by Sushil Patel
Papers by Sushil Patel