Background: Suicide is a major threat to public health worldwide. Evidence suggests alcohol use d... more Background: Suicide is a major threat to public health worldwide. Evidence suggests alcohol use disorders (AUD) are associated with suicide ideation. There is a paucity of studies in India regarding suicidal ideation among individuals receiving in-patient treatment for alcohol dependence. Aim: To assess the suicidal ideation and its severity among persons with alcohol use disorder. Methods: Cross-sectional research design was used. Totally 47 persons with alcohol use disorder receiving in-patient treatment were screened for suicidal ideation using a consecutive sampling technique based on inclusion and exclusion criteria at centre for addiction medicine, tertiary care teaching hospital at Bangalore. An interview schedule was used to collect the data. Tools: Mini+ suicidality was used for screening suicidal ideation and Columbia suicide severity rating scale was used to assess the frequency and severity of the suicidal ideation. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, m...
Proceedings of national seminar on tribal health in India (2013) reported common health problems ... more Proceedings of national seminar on tribal health in India (2013) reported common health problems of tribes were anemia, maternal and infant mortality rate, malnutrition, underweight among preschool children, kyasannur forest disease, poor immunization, inadequate spacing between assistance by untrained persons, consanguineous marriage, sickle cell disease, difficulty in accessing, affording health care, manpower, poor hygiene, sanitation and poor health seeking behavior (Shruthi, 2013). She documented few communicable, tropical and non-communicable diseases as well in tribes of South India. Health indicators of these tribes were below national average. As per Census 2011, there are 10.43 crore (8.6%) tribes in India occupying 15% of geographical location. Tribes witnessed 23.66% growth rate in population during 2001-2011. Tribespresent in all over Tamilnadu, however they were largely concentrated in 12 districts spread across 2860 villages in 63 blocks. has less than one percent (0....
International Journal of Scientific Research, 2012
Children with Learning Disabilities are those who, despite adequate ability, have great difficult... more Children with Learning Disabilities are those who, despite adequate ability, have great difficulties in the areas of academic achievement. These difficulties are characterized by problems in language, attention, perception, memory, auditory perception, language, visual perception, fine and gross motor coordination. Comprehensive assessment and management by team of mental health professionals such as psychologist, occupational therapist, special educators, social workers, psychiatrist and psychiatric nurse in the afore said cognitive domains is of paramount importance. Learning disabilities have been recognized by the educationist as disabling conditions. But there are no provisions for addressing the psycho-social issues and mental health issues in parents and children arising out of SLD. Hence, School Mental health programmes are essential to address the lacunae. Provision of comprehensive school mental health programme and special education/remedial education service would go long way in the outcome of intervening learning disability and the co-morbid conditions associated with it.
Aims: To examine the effectiveness of involving family members in the recovery process of alcohol... more Aims: To examine the effectiveness of involving family members in the recovery process of alcohol dependence through family centered social casework intervention (FCSCWI). Materials And Methods: Experimental research design; before and after with control group was adopted for the study. 60 in-patients were selected through consecutive sampling technique from the Centre for Addiction Medicine, NIMHANS, Bangalore, India. First 30 respondents formed the Experimental (FCSCWI) group and remaining 30 respondents formed Treatment as usual group (TAU). Tools used: Family involvement in recovery process checklist. Statistical Analysis: Student ‘t’ test, Correlation Analysis, Chi-square test. Written informed consent was obtained from the participants before the study. Results: Both the groups were comparable in terms of age, education, socio-economic status and alcohol related clinical variables. During pre-test, there was no statistically significant difference between two groups with regar...
ABSTRACT Introduction shares his difficulties or sufferings. Stress is a common phenomenon 2.Maki... more ABSTRACT Introduction shares his difficulties or sufferings. Stress is a common phenomenon 2.Making them talk about stress. and inevitable part in our every day 3.Listening to them. life. Stress may be personal or 4.Being available and being with environmental, short or long term. In them in times of crisis. . general stress ~rises out of life 5.Providing emotional support by events, which may be threatening showing genuine concern and I or challenging the individual and his caring. well-being. In this context social 6.Providing factual information. support is an indispensable 7.Referral to access the resources resource for an individual to cope where help is available. with and to deal with stress by a.Providing tangible help when meeting the demand. Social needed. support includes the affective 9.Giving suggestions, guidance, (emotional) and instrumental assistance in whatever they do at (helping) qualities of relationships. time of crisis. Relationships from family, relatives, 10.Providing accommodation to a friends, colleagues, agencies, stressed person during the government institutions and other emergency period. non-governmental organizations are 11.Showing love, care and genuine considered as sources of social concern by taking them to suitable support available for an individual. places like hospital! park. Social support is based on the Importance of social support formal and informal relationships one Social support is effective in has with the sources and the help minimizing the negative effect of one receives to meet the crisis stress. Social support has indirect situation. effects on well-being by playing Elements of social support buffering and mitigating role in 1.Showing empathy when a person reducing the impact of stressful event Natlliya E B.ScNursing III year, Navodaya Institute of Nursing, Mandya, Kamataka . . *Sinu E MSW. Ph.D Scholar, Department of Psychiatric Social work, NIMHANS, 3angalore 560 029
International Journal of Health Sciences and Research, 2015
This article aims to sensitize the influence of movies on adolescent smoking. Adolescents’ motive... more This article aims to sensitize the influence of movies on adolescent smoking. Adolescents’ motives to start smoking differ from adults. The more exposure to tobacco that adolescents see and hear they are more likely to become tobacco users. Movies have a powerful influence on adolescent smoking. For tobacco industry to survive it hooks new customers to replace those who die or quit. Hence, they catch them young. Younger the age they start; longer the duration they use. Hence, the best way to protect the children from tobacco use, is to ban all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in the media. Let us make our Kids Healthy and Smart! Say ‘No’ to Tobacco and ‘Yes’ to Life!
Examination failure (SREF) takes toll of at least 7 young persons everyday in India as per the re... more Examination failure (SREF) takes toll of at least 7 young persons everyday in India as per the report of NCB (2013) and hence efforts are to be made to stem.Availability of mental health care and delivery system has to a large extent reduced the incidence. As self-directed anger results in suicide anger management is elaborated.
Aim: To study the effectiveness of community based camp approach in the treatment of persons with... more Aim: To study the effectiveness of community based camp approach in the treatment of persons with Alcohol dependence syndrome. Methods: This was a prospective study. Experimental Research Design pre and post-test with control group was adopted. 30 Respondents were drawn from community based de-addiction camp(CBC) in Sasthana, Kundapur and another 30 hospital based de-addiction camp (HBC), Doddanagudde, Udupi Disitrict, Karnataka. CBC was held for 7 days and hospital based de-addiction camp held for 10 days. Tools used: AUDIT, SAD-Q, WHO-Quality of life-BREF, SOCRATES. Statistics Procedure: Chi square test, ‘t’ test, one-way ANOVA, Survival analysis, Effect Size analysis, correlation and regression analysis. Written informed consent was obtained from the participants before the study. Results: Study revealed that both the camp approach intervention was effective. There was a positive trend in community based de-addiction camp towards abstinence. CBC have shown effective in increasing...
About 19% of World’s children live in India and they constitute 42% of Indian population. Recent ... more About 19% of World’s children live in India and they constitute 42% of Indian population. Recent study by Ministry of Women and Child Development in 13 states of India reveals that 53.22% of Indian children experience one or more form of sexual abuse. 50% sexual offenders were known persons and were in positions of trust (family member, close relative, friend or neighbour) (Loveleen et al 2007). Parents and teachers are responsible for protecting children from sexual abuse. But, due to the growing financial need, both the parents are working, irrespective of their standard of living. It results in lack of personal time for their kids to educate/ create awareness on various social and personal issues. They don’t even find time to meet together at home or in a common place due to their work pressure. Though they teach safety during travel, safeguarding their belongings, they seldom discuss about safeguarding their bodies. One reason could be that they themselves may not know how to te...
Aim: To examine the level of self-esteem and emotional Intelligence among college teachers. Metho... more Aim: To examine the level of self-esteem and emotional Intelligence among college teachers. Method: A sample of 110 college teachers (both male and female) who have attended training programme on psycho-educational skills, hailing from Madurai region, Tamil Nadu have been selected using simple random sampling technique. The study was descriptive in nature. Culture Free Self-Esteem Inventory Emotional intelligence scale were used. Results: More than one-fourth of them have high self-esteem and less than 17% of the teachers have low self-esteem. Mean self-esteem score of the college teachers is 69.57, which is fairly high. More than one-third (30%) of the school teachers have high emotional intelligence (EI) and few (18%) t have Low EI. Mean Emotional Intelligence score for the college teachers is 68.55%, which is fairly high. There is a positive correlation between self-esteem and emotional intelligence among college teachers (r = +0.83 p<.05). Conclusion: Female teachers have more self-esteem and emotional intelligence than male teachers. Teachers who teach science subjects are having less self-esteem and emotional Intelligence than the teachers who handle arts subjects.
Background: Suicide is a major threat to public health worldwide. Evidence suggests alcohol use d... more Background: Suicide is a major threat to public health worldwide. Evidence suggests alcohol use disorders (AUD) are associated with suicide ideation. There is a paucity of studies in India regarding suicidal ideation among individuals receiving in-patient treatment for alcohol dependence. Aim: To assess the suicidal ideation and its severity among persons with alcohol use disorder. Methods: Cross-sectional research design was used. Totally 47 persons with alcohol use disorder receiving in-patient treatment were screened for suicidal ideation using a consecutive sampling technique based on inclusion and exclusion criteria at centre for addiction medicine, tertiary care teaching hospital at Bangalore. An interview schedule was used to collect the data. Tools: Mini+ suicidality was used for screening suicidal ideation and Columbia suicide severity rating scale was used to assess the frequency and severity of the suicidal ideation. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, m...
Proceedings of national seminar on tribal health in India (2013) reported common health problems ... more Proceedings of national seminar on tribal health in India (2013) reported common health problems of tribes were anemia, maternal and infant mortality rate, malnutrition, underweight among preschool children, kyasannur forest disease, poor immunization, inadequate spacing between assistance by untrained persons, consanguineous marriage, sickle cell disease, difficulty in accessing, affording health care, manpower, poor hygiene, sanitation and poor health seeking behavior (Shruthi, 2013). She documented few communicable, tropical and non-communicable diseases as well in tribes of South India. Health indicators of these tribes were below national average. As per Census 2011, there are 10.43 crore (8.6%) tribes in India occupying 15% of geographical location. Tribes witnessed 23.66% growth rate in population during 2001-2011. Tribespresent in all over Tamilnadu, however they were largely concentrated in 12 districts spread across 2860 villages in 63 blocks. has less than one percent (0....
International Journal of Scientific Research, 2012
Children with Learning Disabilities are those who, despite adequate ability, have great difficult... more Children with Learning Disabilities are those who, despite adequate ability, have great difficulties in the areas of academic achievement. These difficulties are characterized by problems in language, attention, perception, memory, auditory perception, language, visual perception, fine and gross motor coordination. Comprehensive assessment and management by team of mental health professionals such as psychologist, occupational therapist, special educators, social workers, psychiatrist and psychiatric nurse in the afore said cognitive domains is of paramount importance. Learning disabilities have been recognized by the educationist as disabling conditions. But there are no provisions for addressing the psycho-social issues and mental health issues in parents and children arising out of SLD. Hence, School Mental health programmes are essential to address the lacunae. Provision of comprehensive school mental health programme and special education/remedial education service would go long way in the outcome of intervening learning disability and the co-morbid conditions associated with it.
Aims: To examine the effectiveness of involving family members in the recovery process of alcohol... more Aims: To examine the effectiveness of involving family members in the recovery process of alcohol dependence through family centered social casework intervention (FCSCWI). Materials And Methods: Experimental research design; before and after with control group was adopted for the study. 60 in-patients were selected through consecutive sampling technique from the Centre for Addiction Medicine, NIMHANS, Bangalore, India. First 30 respondents formed the Experimental (FCSCWI) group and remaining 30 respondents formed Treatment as usual group (TAU). Tools used: Family involvement in recovery process checklist. Statistical Analysis: Student ‘t’ test, Correlation Analysis, Chi-square test. Written informed consent was obtained from the participants before the study. Results: Both the groups were comparable in terms of age, education, socio-economic status and alcohol related clinical variables. During pre-test, there was no statistically significant difference between two groups with regar...
ABSTRACT Introduction shares his difficulties or sufferings. Stress is a common phenomenon 2.Maki... more ABSTRACT Introduction shares his difficulties or sufferings. Stress is a common phenomenon 2.Making them talk about stress. and inevitable part in our every day 3.Listening to them. life. Stress may be personal or 4.Being available and being with environmental, short or long term. In them in times of crisis. . general stress ~rises out of life 5.Providing emotional support by events, which may be threatening showing genuine concern and I or challenging the individual and his caring. well-being. In this context social 6.Providing factual information. support is an indispensable 7.Referral to access the resources resource for an individual to cope where help is available. with and to deal with stress by a.Providing tangible help when meeting the demand. Social needed. support includes the affective 9.Giving suggestions, guidance, (emotional) and instrumental assistance in whatever they do at (helping) qualities of relationships. time of crisis. Relationships from family, relatives, 10.Providing accommodation to a friends, colleagues, agencies, stressed person during the government institutions and other emergency period. non-governmental organizations are 11.Showing love, care and genuine considered as sources of social concern by taking them to suitable support available for an individual. places like hospital! park. Social support is based on the Importance of social support formal and informal relationships one Social support is effective in has with the sources and the help minimizing the negative effect of one receives to meet the crisis stress. Social support has indirect situation. effects on well-being by playing Elements of social support buffering and mitigating role in 1.Showing empathy when a person reducing the impact of stressful event Natlliya E B.ScNursing III year, Navodaya Institute of Nursing, Mandya, Kamataka . . *Sinu E MSW. Ph.D Scholar, Department of Psychiatric Social work, NIMHANS, 3angalore 560 029
International Journal of Health Sciences and Research, 2015
This article aims to sensitize the influence of movies on adolescent smoking. Adolescents’ motive... more This article aims to sensitize the influence of movies on adolescent smoking. Adolescents’ motives to start smoking differ from adults. The more exposure to tobacco that adolescents see and hear they are more likely to become tobacco users. Movies have a powerful influence on adolescent smoking. For tobacco industry to survive it hooks new customers to replace those who die or quit. Hence, they catch them young. Younger the age they start; longer the duration they use. Hence, the best way to protect the children from tobacco use, is to ban all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in the media. Let us make our Kids Healthy and Smart! Say ‘No’ to Tobacco and ‘Yes’ to Life!
Examination failure (SREF) takes toll of at least 7 young persons everyday in India as per the re... more Examination failure (SREF) takes toll of at least 7 young persons everyday in India as per the report of NCB (2013) and hence efforts are to be made to stem.Availability of mental health care and delivery system has to a large extent reduced the incidence. As self-directed anger results in suicide anger management is elaborated.
Aim: To study the effectiveness of community based camp approach in the treatment of persons with... more Aim: To study the effectiveness of community based camp approach in the treatment of persons with Alcohol dependence syndrome. Methods: This was a prospective study. Experimental Research Design pre and post-test with control group was adopted. 30 Respondents were drawn from community based de-addiction camp(CBC) in Sasthana, Kundapur and another 30 hospital based de-addiction camp (HBC), Doddanagudde, Udupi Disitrict, Karnataka. CBC was held for 7 days and hospital based de-addiction camp held for 10 days. Tools used: AUDIT, SAD-Q, WHO-Quality of life-BREF, SOCRATES. Statistics Procedure: Chi square test, ‘t’ test, one-way ANOVA, Survival analysis, Effect Size analysis, correlation and regression analysis. Written informed consent was obtained from the participants before the study. Results: Study revealed that both the camp approach intervention was effective. There was a positive trend in community based de-addiction camp towards abstinence. CBC have shown effective in increasing...
About 19% of World’s children live in India and they constitute 42% of Indian population. Recent ... more About 19% of World’s children live in India and they constitute 42% of Indian population. Recent study by Ministry of Women and Child Development in 13 states of India reveals that 53.22% of Indian children experience one or more form of sexual abuse. 50% sexual offenders were known persons and were in positions of trust (family member, close relative, friend or neighbour) (Loveleen et al 2007). Parents and teachers are responsible for protecting children from sexual abuse. But, due to the growing financial need, both the parents are working, irrespective of their standard of living. It results in lack of personal time for their kids to educate/ create awareness on various social and personal issues. They don’t even find time to meet together at home or in a common place due to their work pressure. Though they teach safety during travel, safeguarding their belongings, they seldom discuss about safeguarding their bodies. One reason could be that they themselves may not know how to te...
Aim: To examine the level of self-esteem and emotional Intelligence among college teachers. Metho... more Aim: To examine the level of self-esteem and emotional Intelligence among college teachers. Method: A sample of 110 college teachers (both male and female) who have attended training programme on psycho-educational skills, hailing from Madurai region, Tamil Nadu have been selected using simple random sampling technique. The study was descriptive in nature. Culture Free Self-Esteem Inventory Emotional intelligence scale were used. Results: More than one-fourth of them have high self-esteem and less than 17% of the teachers have low self-esteem. Mean self-esteem score of the college teachers is 69.57, which is fairly high. More than one-third (30%) of the school teachers have high emotional intelligence (EI) and few (18%) t have Low EI. Mean Emotional Intelligence score for the college teachers is 68.55%, which is fairly high. There is a positive correlation between self-esteem and emotional intelligence among college teachers (r = +0.83 p<.05). Conclusion: Female teachers have more self-esteem and emotional intelligence than male teachers. Teachers who teach science subjects are having less self-esteem and emotional Intelligence than the teachers who handle arts subjects.
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