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Activities of IAAH

Copyright (c) 2018 Indian Journal of Youth & Adolescent Health (ISSN: 2349–2880)

Indian Journal of Youth & Adolescent HealthVolume 5, Issue 3 - 2018, Pg. No. 42-51Peer Reviewed & Open Access Journal

Adolescent Health Promotion Work Carried out by BGS World School, Chickballapur,

Karnataka Since 2015: A ReportWg Cdr Ranjit Kumar Mandal

Principal, BGS World School, Karnataka.

Introduction

The Karnataka Chapter of Indian Association for Adolescent Health (IAAH-K) was established on November 22, 2015. The Principal of BGS World School, Chickballapur, Karnataka Wg Cdr Ranjit Kumar Mandal joined the association as its founding Joint Secretary. Immediately after this on November 24, 2015 the BGS World School, Chickballapur launched its ‘School Health Programme’ through a ceremony in which the Secretary General of the association Dr Jugal Kishore and also the Director Professor, Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College, New Delhi was present as it chief guest and the chief speaker. Since the day of launching the programme the school has carried out several activities in the school as per guidelines provided by the Indian Association for Adolescent Health, New Delhi. The school programmes incorporated all students and staff members in its coverage as their beneficiaries. A summary of the work is being presented in this report for the period from the beginning up to August 2018 i.e., a period of 2 years 9 months.

Details of the people covered in Various Programmes

The school has been subjecting its students to the physical health check since its inception 2008 and after it launched its ‘School Health Programme’ since 2015 it started checking the mental health also of the students. And gradually the school started carrying out several surveys and conducting workshops for students and staff as per their needs. The types of checks, surveys and workshops the school conducted level wise are mentioned below:

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Research Papers Published in Journals

The data received during the survey were analyzed, converted into research papers and published in research journals. The data collection task was undertaken very meticulously by the school staff and the principal of the school involved himself in compilation of the paper as their co-author. The details of the papers published with the effort the staff and principal are given below:

S. No. Event Coverage Year and Persons Covered1. Physical Health Check I – X In 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 covering 1198, 1310, 1323

(Except X) and 1479 students respectively.2. Life Skill Management Workshop V - X In 2015, 2016 and 2017 covering 481, 491 and students

580 respectively. 3. Mental and Social Health Check VI - X In 2016, 2017 & 2018 (VII-X) covering 480, 436 (Except

VI) and 485 students and teachers respectively.4. Workshop on Eye Care VI - X In 2018 in two batches (VI-VII and VIII & X) covering

238 and 250 students respectively.5. Social Violence Check VII - X In 2016 covering 186 students.6. Wellbeing Check VII - X In 2017 covering 345 (Except X) students. 7. Community Health Survey VII - X In 2016 and 2017 covering 178 and 1730 families.8. Rabies Awareness Survey VII - X In 2018 covering 320 students.9. Rabies Awareness Workshop VII - X In 2018 covering 415 students.10. Teachers’ Awareness Check All Teachers In 2016 Pre-test and Post-test was conducted for 80

teachers.11. Teachers’ Orientation on

Students’ Life Skills promotionAll Teachers In 2016 and 2017 covering 81 and 93 teachers.

12. Staff Health Check All Staff In 2016 covering 100 staff members. 13. Life style and literacy level survey

of the village where the school is situated

Staff Members

In 2018 covering 89 families.

S. No. Title of the Paper Name of the Publication Release Details1. A Comparative study of Common

Health Problems of Middle and Late School Going Adolescents in a Rural area of Bangalore

Indian Journal of Youth & Adolescent Health, ADR Publication

Volume - 3, Issue - 1, October 2016, Pp 31-35 (ISSN No. 2349-2880)

2. Role of Schools in Promotion of Mental Health of Adolescents

The synopsis is published in Souvenir of International Conference on Youth and Adolescent Health, 14-16 Apr 2017 (Pp 30)

The article is under editing process for publication in this year

3. A Cross Sectional Study to determine factors Affecting Overall Wellbeing of School Adolescents in Bangalore

The synopsis is published in Souvenir of International Conference on Youth and Adolescent Health, 14-16 Apr 2017 (Pp 55)

The article is under editorial process for publication soon

4. The Necessity of Launching Adolescent Health Programme in Schools

Journal of Advance Research in English and Education, ADR Publication

Volume - 2, Issue - 1, Jan-April 2017, Pp 1-6 (ISSN No. 2456 - 4370)

5. Effect of training on Perception and Knowledge of teachers towards Common Adolescent Health Problems in a school of Bangalore.


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6. A Cross Sectional Study of Aggression Among School Adolescents in Karnataka, India


Volume - 4, Issue - 4, October-December 2017, Pp 4-9 (ISSN No. 2349-2880)

7. Necessity of Inclusion of Adolescent Health Education in B. Ed. Curriculum


Volume - 3, Issue - 2, May-July 2018. Pp 30-34 (ISSN No. 2456 - 4370)

8. A study on prevalence of Overweight and Obesity amongst school going children of Chcikballapur town, Bangalore

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health


9. State of Awareness about Rabies among school Children in a school of Rural Karnataka

The synopsis is published in Souvenir of 20th National Conference of Association for Prevention & Control of Rabies in India, held in New Delhi from 06-08 July 2018


Research Papers Presented in Seminars and Conferences

The principal of the school engaged himself in doing research in the field of adolescent health and he has presented several papers on adolescent health in several seminars as the following:

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S. No. Title of the Papers Seminar/Conference Details Date1. Challenges in Launching School

Health Programme40st Indian Social Science Congress, held at Mysore Medical College, Mysore

22 December 2016

2. Necessity of Launching Adolescent Health Programme in Schools

6th South Central Zone & 1st Chattishgarh State Chapter IAPSM Conference, Held at Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Medical College, Raipur

17 November 2017

3. Role of Schools in Promotion of Mental Health of the Students

International Conference on Adolescent Health - Young Generation: Our Global Edge - held in New Delhi

14 April 2017

4. Necessity of Inclusion of Adolescent Health Education in B. Ed. Curriculum

41st Indian Social Science Congress, held at Periyar University, Salem

21 December 2017

5. Importance of Adolescent Health Promotion alongside the use of ITC in Teacher Education

Seminar organized by School of Education, Christ University, Bangalore on ‘Importance of ITC in Teachers’ Education in Context of Challenges in Education’

17 February 2018

6. State of Awareness about Rabies among School Children in a School of Rural Karnataka

20th National Conference of Association for Prevention & Control of Rabies in India, held in New Delhi

07 July 2018

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Research Articles Published

The school has made efforts to create awareness among the people in the neighborhoods and outside Karnataka publications of articles as mentioned below:-

S. No. Title of the Paper Name of the Publication Release Details1. Principal Says: Make Education a

Joyful ExperienceThe Times of India, Newspaper in Education Edition (NIE), Issue

Bangalore Issue, 19 September 2016

2. It is Vital for Students to be Healthy

The Times of India, Newspaper in Education Edition (NIE), Issue

Bangalore Issue, 19 September 2016

3. Promotion of Adolescent Health in Schools

Pinnacle : An Annual News Letter of CKBISA, Karnataka

Volume - 2, Issue – 1,01 July 2017

4. Healthy Food Habit for Adolescents and Youths

Durga Puja Brochure of Purva Venezia, Yelahanka New Town, Bangalore

Annual Durga Puja Issue, October 2017

5. Healthy Life Style for Adolescents and Youths

Education Today, Monthly Educational Journal, Bangalore

June 2018 Issue

6. Steps To Launch Of School Health Programme

Pinnacle : An Annual News Letter of CKBISA, Karnataka

Volume - 3, Issue – 1,01 July 2018

S. No. Title of the News Media Details Issue Details 1. A report was published with

photographs titled- ‘Indian Association for Adolescent Health Handholds School Health Programme at BGS World School, Chickballapur, Karnataka’.

Indian Journal for Youth and Adolescent Health, ADR Publication, New Delhi,

Vol -3, Issue-4, October-December 2016.

2. Letter to Edior: The Necessity of Launching Adolescent Health Programme in Schools


Volume - 2, Issue – 2, April-June 2017 (ISSN No. 2456 - 4370)

3. A Review: The Necessity of Launching Adolescent Health Programme in Schools


Volume - 2, Issue – 3&4, July-December 2017, P 33 (ISSN No. 2456 - 4370)

4. Special Report Section: An interview of ‘Acharya Debo Bhavo Awardees – 2017’

Brainfeed (An Educational Magazine), Hyderabad,

Volume-V, Issue-8, Monthly Issue November 2017, P 30 (RNI-APENG/ 2013/49994)

5. Speech by Shushmna S, a student of BGS World School, Chickballapur, In ICYAH – 2017, the recipient of the Gulian Gold Medal – 2017

Indian Journal for Youth and Adolescent Health, ADR Publication, New Delhi

Volume - 4, Issue - 3, July-Sep 2017, Pp 63- 64 (ISSN No. 2349-2880)

6. Speech by Rakshita B Gawda, a student of BGS World School, Chickballapur, In ICYAH – 2017, New Delhi


Volume - 4, Issue - 3, July-Sep 2017, Pp 65 (ISSN No. 2349-2880)

7. Leading Schools towards Having Happy Class Rooms and Healthy Minds

Journal of Advance Research in English and Education, ADR Publication, New Deli

Volume - 3, Issue - 3, July-September 2018, (ISSN No. 2456 - 4370)

8. School Principals Meet to Chalk out Yearly Programme for the Adolescent Health for the State of Karnataka


Volume - 5, Issue - 2, July 2018, Pp 42-44 (ISSN No. 2349 -2880)

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Work done for other Organizations

Not only the school has benefitted the students of its own campus, the school has taken initiatives to extend the programme to other institutions. In all cases the principal of the school has involved himself. Presented below are the details which the BGS World School has covered:

S. No. Institutions Coverage Date of the Programme1. Organized Life Skill Management Workshop in BGS PU

College, ChickballapurAbout 400 students of PUC I & II Classes

25 November 2016

2. Organized Life Skill Management Workshop in BGS PU College, Chickballapur

About 400 students of PUC I & II Classes

16 May 2016

3. Wg Cdr RK Mandal conducted an workshop of the Principals of the schools during the International Conference on Youth and Adolescent Health 2017, New Delhi

About 60 school principals coming from across India

14 April 2017

4. Wg Cdr RK Mandal made a presentation on ‘Necessity of Launching Adolescent Health Programme in Schools’ at NH Goel International Residential School, Raipur

About 350 IX – XII students & 50 staff members

16 November 2017

5. Wg Cdr RK Mandal made a presentation on ‘Necessity of Launching Adolescent Health Programme in School’ at BGS World Schools, Nagarur, Bangalore North

All 60 staff members 16 May 2018

6. Wg Cdr RK Mandal made a presentation on ‘Necessity of Launching Adolescent Health Programme in Schools’ at the General Body Meeting of the Chickballapur, Kolar and Bangalore ICSE Schools’ Association.

All principals of member schools of the Association

19 June 2018

Receipt of Dr Gulian Award

One student of the school named Miss Shushumna (X) was awarded Dr Gulian Gold Medal from IAAH for her contribution towards adolescent health promotion for the year 2017. Miss Shushumna S was awarded the medal during the International Conference on Adolescent Health in Delhi on 14 April 2017. She and another student named Rakshitha B Gowda (X) delivered their speeches in the conference to express their experience on adolescent health promotion work.

Inclusion of Adolescent Health Related Panel Discussion in ASISC Conferences

Association for Indian School Certificate is an all India association of the schools affiliated under the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations. It is the largest national level Council affiliated schools’ association, second being the Association for the Anglo-Indian Schools of India. The association has about 2000 member schools and it organizes a national conference for three days at different selected place every year. The BGS World School, Chiciballapur being a member of the association Wg Cdr Ranjit Kumar Mandal requested the office bearers of the association to have a lecture session on adolescent health and got a one-hour lecture session arranged in 2014. Again in 2017, Wg Cdr

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Mandal provided four panelists to speak on adolescent health on the topic ‘Leading Schools towards Happy Classrooms and Healthy Minds’. The chairperson for the panel was Dr Jugal Kishore, the Secretary General, Indian Association for Adolescent Health. The other three panelists were from the field of Mental Health, Nutrition and Cyber Related Hazard for health. The three-day conference was held from 29 Nov 2017 to 01 Dec 2017. After the conference, Wg Cdr Mandal has also written an article which is due for its release in the ‘Journal of Advance Research in English and Education’ for its publication (Vol 3, Issue 3, July – Sep 2018). The contents of the article have already been placed in the website of the Association (ASISC).

Recent Survey Carried out in the School on

Work done for other Organizations

Not only the school has benefitted the students of its own campus, the school has taken initiatives to extend the programme to other institutions. In all cases the principal of the school has involved himself. Presented below are the details which the BGS World School has covered:-

Awareness of Rabies

The process of the work this year started with carrying out of a surveys of awareness on Rabies among the students of the school. The students were given two-page questionnaire to reveal their awareness and knowledge about Rabies. The students from VII to X classes numbering 320 were subjected and out of which 50.5% were male and 49.5% female. The maximum children subjected in the test were of 14 years of age (45.6%) and about 35% parents of the subject students were professionals. A research paper titled ‘The State of Awareness about Rabies among School Children in a School of Rural Karnataka’ was jointly authored by the principal and was presented by him in the ‘20th National Conference of Association for Prevention & Control of Rabies in India’ which was held in New Delhi from 06 to 08 July 2018. The Principal presented the paper on 07 Jul 2018.

The findings the paper revealed that 98.1% students of the school knew about rabies and they also knew that rabies was mostly transmitted by dog bite. The students also reported that the major source of their information was the school. The survey found out that 26.2% students were covered by anti-rabies vaccine in the past. 20.3% of the students reported that they received equal to or less than 5 doses of vaccine. While 78% students did not know the number of doses they received, 76.7% of students did not remember the site of vaccination. The authors of concluded by mentioning that there was a urgent need to make the adolescents aware about the guidelines on animal bite cases, management and importance of rabies vaccination.

Recent Medical Check carried out in the School

In the current academic session, the process started with annual medical check of 1425 students of the school. Sri Satya Sai Grama of Chickballapur, a centre for social service, has provided a team of doctors to conduct Physical Health Check this year. During the three days’ medical check on 27 and 28 June 2018 and 12 July 2018 a team of doctors numbering 18, 40 and 18 doctors respectively did the thorough medical check. During the check 571, students have been observed to be having some problems or the other. The findings of check have been the following:

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S. No. Class Stregth Problems Found Opthamological Dental ENT Pediatric Dermatology1. I 164 52 17 11 5 4 0

2. II 196 143 35 13 18 31 2

3. III 219 127 57 7 5 4 1

4. IV 194 48 11 10 3 0 0

5. V 183 56 18 9 0 1 0

6. VI 141 52 34 0 4 3 1

7. VII 97 24 12 0 2 0 0

8. VIII 88 28 08 0 3 1 2

9. IX 77 19 11 0 1 0 1

10. X 66 22 10 0 1 0 0

Total 1425 57 213 50 42 44 7 Percentage 38% 37.30% 0.08% 0.07% 0.07% 0.01%

The observations of the doctors were communicated to the parents for taking medical treatment. It is expected that the parents would soon confirm medical treatment of the students and submit relevant documents to the school.

Workshop on Eye Care

In order to make the students and teachers of the school aware of the signs of eye ailment, their precaution and ways of eye care a workshop was organized in the school on August 28, 2018. Dr Soumya, an ophthalmologist, took two sessions separately for VI & VII and VIII – X class students. The doctor advised them to consult a physician in case of any eye ailment without delay and to take nutritious food.

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S. No.

Institutions to be Covered

PresentStrength

Medical Team to be arranged by

Workshop to be

arranged by

Statistician to be

arranged by

Medical TestTeam From

Test/ Survey Date

Workshop Date

1. BGS World School,

Chickballapur

1479 W/C RK Mandal

W/C RK Mandal

Dr. Sunil Kumar

Satya Sai Centre,

Chickballapur

Completed Completed

2. BGS English School

Chickballapur

1200 W/C RK Mandal

W/C RK Mandal

Dr. Sunil Kumar

BGS Medical College

September October

3. BGS PU College,

Chickballapur

1600 W/C RK Mandal

W/C RK Mandal

Dr. Sunil Kumar

BGS Medical College

September October

4. BGS Polytechnic,

Chickballapur

1500 W/C RK Mandal

W/C RK Mandal

Dr. Sunil Kumar

BGS Medical College

September October

5. Akash International

School, Debanahalli

500 Dr Sunil Kumar

Dr. Sunil Kumar

Dr. Sunil Kumar

Akash M College

Debanahalli

September October

6. Gem Int School, Alipur/

CB’pur

600 Dr Ashwath Narayan

Ms. Managuli

Dr. Sunil Kumar & Mrs.

Managuli

As planned by Dr.

Ashwath Narayan

September October

7. KV English School,

Chickballapur


Ms. Managuli


Managuli

As planned by Dr.

Ashwath Narayan

September October

8. Vidyanidhi School

Gauribidnur/CB Pur


Ms. Managuli

Dr Sunil Kumar & Mrs

Managuli

As planned by Dr.

Ashwath Narayan

September October

9. Santha VidyaniketanChickballapur


Ms. Managuli


Managuli

As planned by Dr.

Ashwath Narayan

September October

Recent Mental and Social Health Survey in the School

The students from VII to X class numbering 350 were subjected to the mental and social health check also on 29 June 2018 using the questionnaire designed by the Indian Association for Adolescent Health. The data analysis job of the survey has been undertaken by Akash Medical College, Debanahalli, Karnataka.

Hosting of Meetings of IAAH

The principal of the school has also sponsored the annual General Body meetings of the ‘Indian Association for Adolescent Health, Karnataka’ in the year 2016 and 2017 in Bangalore. On both the occasions, he organized the presence of Dr Jugal Kishore, the Secretary General, Indian Association for Adolescent Health (IAAH) who came from New Delhi.

The first meeting of the association of the year 2018 has also been arranged by him in collaboration with ‘The Kempe Gowda Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS)’, Bangalore on 09 Jun 2018. As the meeting was attended by the non-member professionals from the field of medicine and education, he made a comprehensive presentation highlighting the aim of the association. He also presented an account of the work done by the IAAH-K. He, as the Joint Secretary of the Association, helped the Chairperson to draw an action plan of the association for the year 2018-19.

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Wg Cdr Mandal held a brief meeting with the IAAH Secretary General Dr Jugal Kishore and the President, IAAK (Karnataka Chapter) Dr Muddassir Hussain Khan in Delhi on 07 Jul 2018 in New Delhi where they had met while attending the 20th National Conference of Association for Prevention & Control of Rabies in India. They discussed about future action plan of the association.

Wg Cdr Mandal had taken initiatives and conducted another meeting for the members on August 11, 2018 in collaboration with ‘The Kempe Gowda Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS)’, Bangalore from which the HOD and two Professors have become member of the Association in the month of June 2018. The meeting was attended by the president of the association Dr Muddassir Hussain and several other members. In the meeting, the house chalked out an annual programme for the medical test of the schools and took the responsibility of the work as the following:

Wg Cdr Mandal also had a meeting with the Mr Ali Sait, CEO, M/S Tech Avante Garde, a Bngalore based partner company of M/S Microsoft Ltd., to include compliance of adolescent health care requirements in the future school accreditation programme of school which would be rolled out by M/S Microsoft Ltd. in near future.

Conclusion

It has been observed that over the years the students of BGS World School have been doing well while studying in this school or in their higher education. The school has also planned to undertake more programme for the students in the current year 2018. The school principal has also been making his efforts of spreading the activities in different dimensions. It is expected that the school would benefit its own students and the students of the community for ‘a better tomorrow’.

10. Sarala Birala Acad,

Banargatta

400 Dr. Ashwath Narayan

Ms. Managuli


Managuli

As planned by Dr.

Ashwath Narayan

September October

11. BGS World School, Nagarur

(Nelm’gla)


Ms. Managuli


Managuli

As planned by Dr.

Ashwath Narayan

September October

12. Jnana Budhini School,

Pavgawda


Ms. Managuli


Managuli

As planned by Dr.

Ashwath Narayan

October November

13. Achievers’ Kanika, PU

College, Tumkur


Ms. Managuli


Managuli

As planned by Dr.

Ashwath Narayan

October November

14. Achievers’ Kanika, PU

College, Tumkur


Ms. Managuli


Managuli

As planned by Dr.

Ashwath Narayan

October November

15. SM English School

Madhugiri


Ms. Managuli


Managuli

As planned by Dr.

Ashwath Narayan

October November

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