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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Open Science Publishers LLP</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">26</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>MORBIDITIES AMONG BLIND SCHOOL CHILDREN IN BELGAUM&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>R.</surname><given-names>Kulkarni Rajesh</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Baliga</surname><given-names>Sulakshana</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>31</day><month>01</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>03</volume><issue>05</issue><fpage>11</fpage><lpage>13</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background and aims: Blindness is an important part of the disability spectrum; affecting 1.4 million worldwide and 75 percent of them live in developing countries. About 6-7% of these children aged 10-14 years have eye problems. The present study is undertaken to find out the morbidities among the blind school children. Methods and Material: 137 students studying in Maheswari Blind School, Nehru Nagar, Belgaum were included in the sample. The methods used were the interview, clinical history and check-up for provisional diagnosis. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to record information regarding name, age, sex, standard in which s/he was studying, physical examination/ personal hygiene, anthropometric measurements, clinical findings, provisional diagnosis etc. Weighing machine, measuring tape, and thermometer were used for measurements. Common medicines like ORS packets, Albendazole tablets for deworming, Metronidazole, amoxicyllin, paracetamol etc were also distributed to the needy students. Results: The physical examination of all 138 students in age group ranging from 6-14 years of Maheswari Blind School, Nehru Nagar, Belgaum district was carried out. Fourty nine health related problems were detected in this study. The most important three problems were upper respiratory problems (22.03%), dental caries (13.56%), skin infections and worm infestation (16.10%). Thus school health education should mainly aim at these problems and the care and cleanliness of ears and teeth by proper and regular brushing should be stressed. Conclusion: The most important three problems detected in this study were Upper respiratory tract infections (16.17%) dental caries (10.97%) and worm infestation (8.87%). School health education should be conducted on hand washing, keeping ear clean and on personal hygiene especially brushing technique to prevent dental caries.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Blind School</kwd><kwd> Children</kwd><kwd> Morbidities</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
