?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Reaching+Community+Through+School+Going+Children+for+Sickle+Cell+Disease+in+Zankhvav+Village+of+Surat+District%2C+Western+India&rft.creator=Rupani%2C+MP&rft.creator=Vasava%2C+BC&rft.creator=Mallick%2C+KH&rft.creator=Gharat%2C+VV&rft.creator=Bansal%2C+R&rft.subject=Online+Journal+of+Health+and+Allied+Sciences&rft.description=Objectives%3A+The+objective+of+the+study+was+to+explore+a+method+to+reach+the+community+via+school+going+adolescents+for+screening+tribal+people+for+Sickle+Cell+disease.+Methodology%3A+A+cross-sectional+study+was+conducted+in+a+total+of+1023+school+going+adolescents+for+Sickle+Cell+Disease+screening+by+Dithionite+Tube+Turbidity+(DTT)+test+with+subsequent+Hemoglobin+Electrophoresis+for+confirmation+among+those+testing+positive+for+DTT.+They+were+then+advised+to+get+their+family+members+tested+for+the+same.+Results%3A+24.41%25+of+school+going+adolescents+tested+positive+by+DTT+test.+152+family+members+of+those+positive+school+children+came+forward+for+testing.+On+performing+the+DTT+test+on+the+family+members%2C+53.94%25+tested+positive.+Out+of+those+who+tested+positive%2C+61%25+belonged+to+Vasava+caste%3B+36.6%25+belonged+to+Chaudhari+caste+followed+by+Gamit+and+Dhodhia+Patel.+On+the+subsequent+Hemoglobin+electrophoresis%2C+52.63%25+of+the+family+members+were+found+to+be+positive+for+Sickle+Cell+Trait+and+1.97%25+tested+positive+for+Sickle+Cell+Disease.+Conclusions%3A+School+going+children+can+be+an+effective+medium+to+approach+the+community+for+the+screening+of+Sickle+Cell+Disease.&rft.publisher=BS+Kakkilaya&rft.contributor=Kakkilaya%2C+Dr+Srinivas&rft.date=2012-07-25&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F8892%2F1%2F2012-2-4.pdf&rft.identifier=++Rupani%2C+MP+and+Vasava%2C+BC+and+Mallick%2C+KH+and+Gharat%2C+VV+and+Bansal%2C+R++(2012)+Reaching+Community+Through+School+Going+Children+for+Sickle+Cell+Disease+in+Zankhvav+Village+of+Surat+District%2C+Western+India.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F8892%2F