This document provides background information and outlines the proposed methodology for a research study investigating the relationship between BMI and mental health status among students at the International Islamic University Malaysia. Specifically, the study aims to examine if students with higher BMIs (overweight or obese) have higher rates of depression, anxiety, and stress compared to students with normal or underweight BMIs. The proposed methodology would involve measuring BMI and administering the DASS mental health inventory to 100 student participants. Statistical analysis would then be conducted to analyze the relationship between BMI and mental health status scores. The results could provide insight into how weight management may impact students' psychological well-being.
Stress and Coping among the under Graduate Nursing Students A Cross Sectional...ijtsrd
Introduction: Stress among nursing students is an area of growing concern. Nursing students during their professional life undergo stress which may result in psychological distress, physical complaints, behavior problem, and poor academic performance. This study was undertaken to assess the level of stress and coping among the nursing students. Material and Methods: A Descriptive Cross Sectional study was carried out in the year 2015 among 346 nursing students in a selected college at Chidambaram taluk, Tamil Nadu. Data were collected by using demographic profile and Modified Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and Coping Questionnaire for Adolescents (CQA) to assess the stress and coping level of the participants. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Results: The findings revealed that the overall stress level among nursing students, were under mild stress(27%), moderate stress(65%) and high stress (8%) and also the coping level among nursing students, had poor coping (4%), mild coping (43%), moderate coping (45%) and good coping (8%). Conclusion: From this study, the researcher highlights that an effective intervention strategies have to be taught to the B.Sc. nursing students to relieve stress by developing good coping mechanism during their training period to promote stress free life. Mrs. S. Kalaivani | Dr. (Mrs) D. Karaline Karunagari"Stress and Coping among the under Graduate Nursing Students A Cross Sectional Study" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd11393.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/11393/stress-and-coping-among-the-under-graduate-nursing-students-a-cross-sectional-study/mrs-s-kalaivani
Stress and Coping among the under Graduate Nursing Students A Cross Sectional...ijtsrd
Introduction: Stress among nursing students is an area of growing concern. Nursing students during their professional life undergo stress which may result in psychological distress, physical complaints, behavior problem, and poor academic performance. This study was undertaken to assess the level of stress and coping among the nursing students. Material and Methods: A Descriptive Cross Sectional study was carried out in the year 2015 among 346 nursing students in a selected college at Chidambaram taluk, Tamil Nadu. Data were collected by using demographic profile and Modified Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and Coping Questionnaire for Adolescents (CQA) to assess the stress and coping level of the participants. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Results: The findings revealed that the overall stress level among nursing students, were under mild stress(27%), moderate stress(65%) and high stress (8%) and also the coping level among nursing students, had poor coping (4%), mild coping (43%), moderate coping (45%) and good coping (8%). Conclusion: From this study, the researcher highlights that an effective intervention strategies have to be taught to the B.Sc. nursing students to relieve stress by developing good coping mechanism during their training period to promote stress free life. Mrs. S. Kalaivani | Dr. (Mrs) D. Karaline Karunagari"Stress and Coping among the under Graduate Nursing Students A Cross Sectional Study" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd11393.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/11393/stress-and-coping-among-the-under-graduate-nursing-students-a-cross-sectional-study/mrs-s-kalaivani
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Modifying and developing health behavior both imply change of a conscious and planned nature, as distinct from change that occurs unconsciously in the natural history of growth and adaptation. Therefore, sociologists, psychologists and social scientists have been working for centuries to design various behavior modification techniques, some of which are been discussed here including:
Conditioning
Modeling
Fear & Knowledge Appeals
Readiness to change model
Persuasion
ABSTRACT- Background: Malnutrition constitutes a major public health concern worldwide and serves as an indicator
of hospitalized patient’s prognosis. Nutritional support is an essential aspect of the clinical management of children
admitted to hospital. Malnutrition has been long associated with poor quality, poor diet and inadequate access to health
care, and it remains a key global health issue that both stems from and contributes to weakness, with 50% of childhood
deaths due to principal under nutrition.
Methods: The present hospital based cross sectional study was conducted in April to Dec 2015 among 300 rural
adolescents of 9-18 years age (146 boys and 154 girls) attending the outpatient department at Patna Medical College and
Hospital, Bihar, India, belonging to the all caste communities. The nutritional status was assessed in terms of under
nutrition (weight-for-age below 3rd percentile), stunting (Height-for-age below 3rd percentile) and thinness (BMI-for-age
below 5th percentile). Diseases were accepted as such as diagnosed by pediatrician, skin specialist and medical officer.
Results: The prevalence of underweight, stunting and thinness were found to be 31%, 22.3% and 30.7% respectively. The
maximum prevalence of malnutrition was observed among early adolescents (23% - 54%) and the most common
morbidities were diarrhoea (16.7%), carbuncle / furuncle (16.7%) and scabies (12%).
Conclusion: Malnutrition among hospitalized under five children and around suffers moderately high rates of
malnutrition. Present nutrition programs attention on education for at risk children and referral to regional hospitals for
malnourished children. Screening tools to classify children at risk of developing malnutrition might be helpful.
Key-words- Malnutrition, Hospitalized children, Morbidities, Prevalence, Stunting
“Effectiveness of PTP on Knowledge and Attitude of High School Students Regar...inventionjournals
Background: Nutrition is an important component of any physical fitness program. The main dietary goal for active individuals is to obtain adequate nutrition to optimize health fitness. Health behavioral patter ns, especially eating patterns, established in childhood often carry over into adulthood, and some of the unhealthy ones are later associated with adult morbidity and mortality. Aims and Objectives: The study aimed at assessing effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge and attitude regarding importance of diet among high school students and finding the correlation between knowledge and attitude regarding importance of diet and find the association between knowledge and attitude with selected demographic variables. Materials and Methods: knowledge of high school students was assessed by structured knowledge questionnaire and attitude was assessed by rating scale, 50 students were selected by purposive sampling technique. Results: The findings of the study related to knowledge revealed that, in the pre test 23 (46%) had the average knowledge, 22(44%) had good knowledge. The post test knowledge scores shows 13(26%) with good knowledge and 33(66%) with excellent knowledge. There is a significant difference between the pretest and post test level of knowledge [t value (t49=14.63)]. The findings of the study related to attitude revealed that, 46(92%) had the good attitude & 3 (6%) had excellent attitude. Whereas after administration of PTP no one had poor attitude, 20(40%) with good attitude, & 29(58%) had excellent attitude. There is a significant difference between the pretest and post test level of attitude [t value (t49=8.65)]. The correlation between knowledge and attitude score shows that mild correlation (r=0.666). There is a significant association between knowledge scores with selected demographic variables like age (X2=4.5, df=1), sex (X2=5.56, df=1), father education (X2=12, df=1), father occupation (X2=8.41, df=1), mother education (X2=10.54, df=1), family income (X2=23.72, df=1), type of diet (X2=5.88, df=1),source of information regarding diet (X2=6.77, df=1). There is a significant association between attitude scores with selected demographic variables like father occupation (X2=19.42, df=1), mother education (X2=5.88, df=1), mother occupation (X2=4.11, df=1), family income (X2=5.89, df=1). Conclusion: The findings of the study supports the need for providing information to improving the knowledge regarding importance of diet among high school children.
Background: Data regarding Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and Depression in Bangladesh are inadequate. Though we have sufficient information on depression and diabetes especially during pregnancy but information about depression and gestational diabetes and the consequences are very scanty in Bangladesh. This comparative, longitudinal research study was done to better understand the relationship between gestational diabetes and depression, and the outcome of pregnancy. GDM effects fetal growth is well stablish but whether and how depression aggravates the condition was another specific objective to find out from this study. Mode of delivery, fetal morbidity and mortality and postpartum depression as a consequent was also tried to explore. Moreover this study focused on other principal social factors which might have infl uence over this condition
The Impact of Physical Activity on Socializing Mentally Handicapped Childreninventionjournals
This research is conducted to determine socialization of individuals with moderate mental retardation by physical activity. In order to meet the needs of physical activity of individuals with mental retardation, programs including work and play are being prepared today. These games and practices are aimed on their abilities, limitations and interests. A well-planned program of physical activity can have a positive contribution to all areas of development on children with mental disabilities. In this study, which proceeds on the basis of The Focus Group Interview (FGI), a part of qualitative research strategy, 19 parents with disabled kids were interviewed. Children of parents who participated in the study have moderate mental retardation (MR) and they have been playing basketball for two days a week, swimming for one day a weekend short walking at least three times a week on a regular basis for the last two years. The study was made by Maximum Diversity Sampling as a sampling method and interview form was used as a data collection means. Verbal explanations given by parents to open-ended questions were analyzed through content analysis. Main themes of each research question were chosen by comparing a pre determined part of the creation of common themes. As a result, parents who are suffering from hyperactive or inactive children, tell that they observe a significant change in their children after doing sports. Parents who see this positive change become happy and therefore they have spare time for themselves while their kids are doing sports. Both parents and children defined the positive changes at home and social life along with sports as happiness and calmness. Parents state that they feel their kid’s sense of achievement, improved ability to make an action and communications kills. They also observe the fact that they gain acceptance in the community
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Modifying and developing health behavior both imply change of a conscious and planned nature, as distinct from change that occurs unconsciously in the natural history of growth and adaptation. Therefore, sociologists, psychologists and social scientists have been working for centuries to design various behavior modification techniques, some of which are been discussed here including:
Conditioning
Modeling
Fear & Knowledge Appeals
Readiness to change model
Persuasion
ABSTRACT- Background: Malnutrition constitutes a major public health concern worldwide and serves as an indicator
of hospitalized patient’s prognosis. Nutritional support is an essential aspect of the clinical management of children
admitted to hospital. Malnutrition has been long associated with poor quality, poor diet and inadequate access to health
care, and it remains a key global health issue that both stems from and contributes to weakness, with 50% of childhood
deaths due to principal under nutrition.
Methods: The present hospital based cross sectional study was conducted in April to Dec 2015 among 300 rural
adolescents of 9-18 years age (146 boys and 154 girls) attending the outpatient department at Patna Medical College and
Hospital, Bihar, India, belonging to the all caste communities. The nutritional status was assessed in terms of under
nutrition (weight-for-age below 3rd percentile), stunting (Height-for-age below 3rd percentile) and thinness (BMI-for-age
below 5th percentile). Diseases were accepted as such as diagnosed by pediatrician, skin specialist and medical officer.
Results: The prevalence of underweight, stunting and thinness were found to be 31%, 22.3% and 30.7% respectively. The
maximum prevalence of malnutrition was observed among early adolescents (23% - 54%) and the most common
morbidities were diarrhoea (16.7%), carbuncle / furuncle (16.7%) and scabies (12%).
Conclusion: Malnutrition among hospitalized under five children and around suffers moderately high rates of
malnutrition. Present nutrition programs attention on education for at risk children and referral to regional hospitals for
malnourished children. Screening tools to classify children at risk of developing malnutrition might be helpful.
Key-words- Malnutrition, Hospitalized children, Morbidities, Prevalence, Stunting
“Effectiveness of PTP on Knowledge and Attitude of High School Students Regar...inventionjournals
Background: Nutrition is an important component of any physical fitness program. The main dietary goal for active individuals is to obtain adequate nutrition to optimize health fitness. Health behavioral patter ns, especially eating patterns, established in childhood often carry over into adulthood, and some of the unhealthy ones are later associated with adult morbidity and mortality. Aims and Objectives: The study aimed at assessing effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge and attitude regarding importance of diet among high school students and finding the correlation between knowledge and attitude regarding importance of diet and find the association between knowledge and attitude with selected demographic variables. Materials and Methods: knowledge of high school students was assessed by structured knowledge questionnaire and attitude was assessed by rating scale, 50 students were selected by purposive sampling technique. Results: The findings of the study related to knowledge revealed that, in the pre test 23 (46%) had the average knowledge, 22(44%) had good knowledge. The post test knowledge scores shows 13(26%) with good knowledge and 33(66%) with excellent knowledge. There is a significant difference between the pretest and post test level of knowledge [t value (t49=14.63)]. The findings of the study related to attitude revealed that, 46(92%) had the good attitude & 3 (6%) had excellent attitude. Whereas after administration of PTP no one had poor attitude, 20(40%) with good attitude, & 29(58%) had excellent attitude. There is a significant difference between the pretest and post test level of attitude [t value (t49=8.65)]. The correlation between knowledge and attitude score shows that mild correlation (r=0.666). There is a significant association between knowledge scores with selected demographic variables like age (X2=4.5, df=1), sex (X2=5.56, df=1), father education (X2=12, df=1), father occupation (X2=8.41, df=1), mother education (X2=10.54, df=1), family income (X2=23.72, df=1), type of diet (X2=5.88, df=1),source of information regarding diet (X2=6.77, df=1). There is a significant association between attitude scores with selected demographic variables like father occupation (X2=19.42, df=1), mother education (X2=5.88, df=1), mother occupation (X2=4.11, df=1), family income (X2=5.89, df=1). Conclusion: The findings of the study supports the need for providing information to improving the knowledge regarding importance of diet among high school children.
Background: Data regarding Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and Depression in Bangladesh are inadequate. Though we have sufficient information on depression and diabetes especially during pregnancy but information about depression and gestational diabetes and the consequences are very scanty in Bangladesh. This comparative, longitudinal research study was done to better understand the relationship between gestational diabetes and depression, and the outcome of pregnancy. GDM effects fetal growth is well stablish but whether and how depression aggravates the condition was another specific objective to find out from this study. Mode of delivery, fetal morbidity and mortality and postpartum depression as a consequent was also tried to explore. Moreover this study focused on other principal social factors which might have infl uence over this condition
The Impact of Physical Activity on Socializing Mentally Handicapped Childreninventionjournals
This research is conducted to determine socialization of individuals with moderate mental retardation by physical activity. In order to meet the needs of physical activity of individuals with mental retardation, programs including work and play are being prepared today. These games and practices are aimed on their abilities, limitations and interests. A well-planned program of physical activity can have a positive contribution to all areas of development on children with mental disabilities. In this study, which proceeds on the basis of The Focus Group Interview (FGI), a part of qualitative research strategy, 19 parents with disabled kids were interviewed. Children of parents who participated in the study have moderate mental retardation (MR) and they have been playing basketball for two days a week, swimming for one day a weekend short walking at least three times a week on a regular basis for the last two years. The study was made by Maximum Diversity Sampling as a sampling method and interview form was used as a data collection means. Verbal explanations given by parents to open-ended questions were analyzed through content analysis. Main themes of each research question were chosen by comparing a pre determined part of the creation of common themes. As a result, parents who are suffering from hyperactive or inactive children, tell that they observe a significant change in their children after doing sports. Parents who see this positive change become happy and therefore they have spare time for themselves while their kids are doing sports. Both parents and children defined the positive changes at home and social life along with sports as happiness and calmness. Parents state that they feel their kid’s sense of achievement, improved ability to make an action and communications kills. They also observe the fact that they gain acceptance in the community
Running head The Psychological Impact of Diabetes on Adolescents .docxjenkinsmandie
Running head: The Psychological Impact of Diabetes on Adolescents with Obesity and Overweight
The Psychological Impact of Diabetes on Adolescents with Obesity and Overweight 4
The Psychological Impact of Diabetes on Adolescents with Obesity and Overweight
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The Psychological Impact of Diabetes on Adolescents with Obesity and Overweight
Introduction
Diabetes is known to have a major psychological impact on persons who are overweight or obese. Adolescents with diabetes are at greater risk for emotional and behavioral problems than the general population. These include anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation likely due their immature emotional development. The psychological realm of diabetes has not been studied in a larger dimension. This project evaluates some of the critical aspects of psychological effect of being overweight and obese on students with diabetes.
In recent years, the estimated number of adolescents diagnosed with diabetes has been on the rise. This research might enhance the current body of knowledge in the area. On going review is required to analyze the degree and implication of psychological comorbidities as well as identifying important gaps for future research. There exists the need to identify and evaluate whether the presence of diabetes complicates the psychological problems related to overweight and obesity in adolescents as this will improve nursing intervention and general wellbeing of the student. Students who are obese and overweight are more likely to have increased psychological problems if they also have diabetes than their counterparts who are only obese and overweight.
Background
The selected topic for the capstone project was based on experiences encountered during a high school nursing internship. The interaction with a lot of students who were overweight and obese made one realize that most of them had some aspect of depression. However, the depression seemed more pronounced in students who had concomitant diabetes. Thus, it became important to investigate whether diabetes makes life more unbearable for high school students with overweight and obesity problems by increasing psychological problems and suicidal tendencies.
Clinical Problem Statement
Adolescents in high school are already emotionally disadvantaged as they navigate their psychological development. When their development is compounded by being overweight, obese and concomitant diabetes, it complicates the psychological terrain being navigated. As healthcare professionals, in the school setting, it is important to improve interventional care by responding appropriately to students with psychological issues like negative self- image and other depressive symptoms. The impact of diabetes on psychological development of students with obesity should be investigated as it carries high mortality rates. The presence of diabetes complicates psychological prob.
Running head The Psychological Impact of Diabetes on Adolescents .docxtodd521
Running head: The Psychological Impact of Diabetes on Adolescents with Obesity and Overweight
The Psychological Impact of Diabetes on Adolescents with Obesity and Overweight 4
The Psychological Impact of Diabetes on Adolescents with Obesity and Overweight
By
The Psychological Impact of Diabetes on Adolescents with Obesity and Overweight
Introduction
Diabetes is known to have a major psychological impact on persons who are overweight or obese. Adolescents with diabetes are at greater risk for emotional and behavioral problems than the general population. These include anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation likely due their immature emotional development. The psychological realm of diabetes has not been studied in a larger dimension. This project evaluates some of the critical aspects of psychological effect of being overweight and obese on students with diabetes.
In recent years, the estimated number of adolescents diagnosed with diabetes has been on the rise. This research might enhance the current body of knowledge in the area. On going review is required to analyze the degree and implication of psychological comorbidities as well as identifying important gaps for future research. There exists the need to identify and evaluate whether the presence of diabetes complicates the psychological problems related to overweight and obesity in adolescents as this will improve nursing intervention and general wellbeing of the student. Students who are obese and overweight are more likely to have increased psychological problems if they also have diabetes than their counterparts who are only obese and overweight.
Background
The selected topic for the capstone project was based on experiences encountered during a high school nursing internship. The interaction with a lot of students who were overweight and obese made one realize that most of them had some aspect of depression. However, the depression seemed more pronounced in students who had concomitant diabetes. Thus, it became important to investigate whether diabetes makes life more unbearable for high school students with overweight and obesity problems by increasing psychological problems and suicidal tendencies.
Clinical Problem Statement
Adolescents in high school are already emotionally disadvantaged as they navigate their psychological development. When their development is compounded by being overweight, obese and concomitant diabetes, it complicates the psychological terrain being navigated. As healthcare professionals, in the school setting, it is important to improve interventional care by responding appropriately to students with psychological issues like negative self- image and other depressive symptoms. The impact of diabetes on psychological development of students with obesity should be investigated as it carries high mortality rates. The presence of diabetes complicates psychological prob.
Abstract—Spiritual health is not given its due importance since long time. But nowadays modern medicine is seen in relation to spiritual health. and studies were conducted to find out its effect in various diseases. So this study was conducted on medical students of SMS Medical College, Jaipur (Rajasthan) India. aimed to assess the spiritual health and its association with psycho wellness. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1st MBBS students present on the day of survey were given spiritual health assessment scale (SHAS) to assess the their spiritual health. Then these students were screened through Modified Mini Scale (MMS) to found out zone of psycho wellness i.e. red and orange zone of psycho-wellness. Association was inferred by Chi-square test and ANOVA with Post-hoc Tukey test. Out of 230 students attend on the day of survey, majority of students i.e.164(71.3%) were having good spiritual health. Likewise only 132 students (57.39%) were in green zone (no disease zone), while 36(15.65%) students were in orange (borderline) and 62 students (26.96%) were in red zone (Psychiatric disease zone) of psycho-wellness. On analysis it was found that Mean scores of spiritual SHAS of green zone was significantly high than mean SHAS scores of other zones. Majority of students were having poor spiritual health and this spiritual health was strongly associated with psycho-wellness of students. Poorer the spiritual health of students leads to poorer the psycho-wellness of students.
“A Study on Mental Health Problems of Adolescent” with Special Reference to C...ijtsrd
Mental health problems are very worldwide among adolescent. This may be due to the truth that attending family members to a difficult time for many traditional and non traditional among adolescent. Adolescent after effecting high school are typically younger, depend on parents for financial support, and do not work or work part time. Thus, in addition to stress related to academic load, these adolescent may have to face the task of taking on more adult like responsibilities lacking having yet mastered the skills and cognitive maturity of adulthood. Stress, life events, past experiences and genetics all play a part in determining our mental health. Student life exposes individuals to risk factors affecting mental health including financial worries, periods of transition, substance use, parental pressure, culture shock and disconnection from previous supports. Descriptive research design and simple random sampling technique was adopted for the study. A sample size of 60 people was collected using planned interviews. In this study conclude that 61 of the respondents had good mental health, 24 had moderate mental health, and the remaining 15 respondents had poor mental health. Dr. R. Revathi Priya | Ms. Vaishnavi. A "“A Study on Mental Health Problems of Adolescent” with Special Reference to Coimbatore Districts" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-5 , October 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd59900.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/other/59900/“a-study-on-mental-health-problems-of-adolescent”-with-special-reference-to-coimbatore-districts/dr-r-revathi-priya
Depression among College and University Students of India and Lesotho.pdfAbraham Mutluri
This study was conducted in two countries i.e. India and Lesotho to understand the depression levels among the colleges’
students. As we know depression as a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects the feelings,
thinking and actions of humans. Depression is affecting many students at colleges and universities. It is observed in
the review of literature 30 per cent of the students are experienced depression during their education. The aim of the
present study is to know about the prevalence, major reasons, and major characteristics of depression among student
youth. It is a quantitative study adopted convenience sampling method and collected the data from 220 students. This
study adopted the Beck’s Depression Inventory scale to understand the depression among young students. This
study found that out of 220 students, 42.7% is normal while the remaining 57.3 % is having the other levels of
depression (Mild mood disturbance (16.2%), Borderline clinical depression (8.2%), Moderate depression (23.6%),
severe depression (6.4%) and Extreme depression (2.3%).) The study observed that the coping strength is getting from
religious activities (42.7%), positive re framing (21.4%), support from peers (20.0%). Others like humor (13.6%),
participating in sports (12.7%), and seeking emotional help are also helping the individuals to come out from their
depression and do their regular social functioning. The study suggested that the students should ventilate their
thoughts, fears with trusted people like family members, friends and teachers. The universities and the colleges should
conduct the yoga and meditation camps occasionally which provide the healthy and happy life.
A Study on the Influence of Body Image on Early Adultsijtsrd
Body image is what an individual perceives of his or her body and the mental schemas that one forms with respect to their body and may or may not bear resemblance to reality. The four elements to a body image are how you see your body, how you feel about your body, how think about your body and what you do as a result of all of the above. It may be positive or negative. Body image in young adult women means how women between the ages of 18 25 years perceive their body and what factors influence the body image of women in that age. Body image has implications on mental health such as self esteem, anxiety, depression and self confidence and eating disorders. Physical illnesses such as cancer, obesity, rheumatoid arthritis also play a role in body image. Literature done in other countries suggests that a majority of women have body image issues. Therefore this concept has to be studied in the Indian context too. This study focuses on that 53.3 of the respondents are moderate level of body image on early adults, 30 of the respondents are high level of body image on early adults and 16.7 of the respondents are low level of body image on early adults. Dr. M. Punitha | Aswathy. S "A Study on the Influence of Body Image on Early Adults" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-2 , February 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd49192.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/social-science/49192/a-study-on-the-influence-of-body-image-on-early-adults/dr-m-punitha
Impacts of Mentor’s Strategic Communication on Adjustment Problems among Adol...Arun Varghese
ABSTRACT Introduction: Adolescence is the period of rapid changes in physical and mental state. Rapid storm of physiological changes brigs a great deal of stress and adjustment difficulties. It represents one of the critical transitions in the life span with a wide range of adjustment and mental health problems. The present study is aimed to assess the impact of Mentor’s Strategic Communication on adjustment problems among adolescents. Methodology: A quasi experimental non-equivalent control group design was chosen to assess the impact of Mentor’s Strategic Communication by using Self developed Adjustment Inventory among 60 adolescents (30 each experimental and control group) with mild and moderate adjustment problems at selected schools, Kerala. The Samples were selected based on simple random sampling. Appropriate descriptive & inferential statistics was applied to compute the results. Results: Finding reveals that out of 30 students, 70% reported moderate adjustment problems while 30% were in mild adjustment issues in experimental group. There was a significant difference for adjustment problems among experimental and control group after Mentor’s strategic communication (p<0.001). Further, number of siblings (p<0.032) and education status of father (p<0.008) found significant association to adjustment problems among schools going adolescents. Conclusion: The results of the study revealed that majority of adolescents face adjustment problems and Mentor’s strategic communication had significant impact on improvement in adjustment problems. A planned and timely infusion of mentorship strategy may help them to deal with their day to day adjustment problems and help them to focus in studies in a better way. Keywords: Adolescence, Adjustment problems, coping, stress, behavioural problems
Stress An Undetachable Condition of LifeYogeshIJTSRD
Stressful life events affects human body, which may lead to cardiovascular diseases and effect metabolism and immune system. Recent studies showed increase in stress levels in developing countries. This study aimed to determine the stress levels in MBBS students. The objectives of the study are a To determine the current stress level, b To assess relation between stress level and lifestyle of college students. The present study was carried out in Ahmedabad City of Gujarat State. A total of 400 medical students were included in the study, which were selected using multi stage sampling aged between 18 years to 25 years. Students were questioned regarding their socioeconomic and life style parameters. The results showed that physical activity such as walking, exercise, yoga, meditation etc. were associated to stress levels. College students showed high stress levels with more satisfaction were mostly smokers. Their major reason for eating junk food and smoking was, increase in stress. Conclusion Majority of students suffered from moderate stress levels. Despite of having stress they were happy and satisfied with life with less no internet addiction. Spirituality and stress scales had a positive correlation as most of the students were averagely highly spiritual. Discriminant function can be used to determine the stress level of a person using age, BMI, internet addiction, spirituality, happiness scale and life satisfaction scale of that person. Jayshree N. Tolani | Dr. Nitinkumar D. Shah "Stress: An Undetachable Condition of Life" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-5 , August 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd45054.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/other/45054/stress-an-undetachable-condition-of-life/jayshree-n-tolani
1. Running head: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BMI AND MENTAL HEALTH STATUS
The Relationship between BMI and Mental Health Status among IIUM Students
Research proposal
Nuramal Hayati bt Mohd Amron
1126844
International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
Paper submitted as a partial fulfillment to the requirement of PSYC 4990, Undergraduate
Research Project, Section 1, instructed by Dr. Syarifah Azizah at the Department of Psychology,
International Islamic University Malaysia, Semester 2, 2014/2015.
2. Abstract
OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between BMI and mental health status which includes
depress,anxiety and stress among IIUM students.
DESIGN: Correlational research design.
SUBJECTS: A total of 100 local undergraduate students, age 20 - 26 years old, from International Islamic
University Malaysia’s student.
MEASUREMENTS: Proceduralof body mass index measurement, DASS Inventory to measure mental
health status
RESULTS: We found an association between BMI and mental health status. Obese students had the
highest rate of mental disorders. Most importantly, obese students suffered from an anxiety disorder
significantly more often than who were not obese.
CONCLUSIONS:Obesity is related to increased rates of mental disorders, most notably depressed,
anxiety and stress.
Keywords: BMI, Mental Health Status, Body Weight
Introduction
It is reported that a lot of children having emotional issues such as depression, stress,
anxiety and PTSD when it is relates to physical body. The level of well-being among
obese/overweight children are decrease compared to children who are in the state of normal
weight. What is more astonishing, the level of depress among children who are in the state of
severely obese is same to children who are having cancer (Lee & Yen, 2014). There was also
reported that people who are obesity tend to suicide. The higher potential risk of people who are
getting suicide is from man who are obese (Mukamal et al., 2007). This is proved that body
weight linked with the emotional welfare. There was a study in German by Becker et al (2001),
stated that they found the connotation between mental disorder and body weight. The study
assumed that overall, the highest mental disorders are women who are obese. The subject who
were suffers anxiety disorder also frequently from women who were obese rather than not obese.
Therefore, these phenomena shows us that BMI or body weight does give a link and relation
upon mental health status among public. Other than mental health status, body weight also have
association with physical health such as chronic diseases.
A study conducted by Mumford et al (2013), which examined between concurrent
trajectories of BMI and mental health patterns in emerging adulthood. It showed that individuals
with unhealthy weight related to mental health which can turn to depression to an individual.
Nevertheless, this study was conducted among adulthood people which show further research in
teenagers specifically student should be examined in the future.
3. There was a study conducted among student of University Malaysia Sarawak which
related on Gender Differences in Body Mass Index Body Weight, Perception and Weight Loss
Strategies (Kuan et al, 2011). Generally, females were more concerned about body weight than
males. They diet more frequently, had self-induced vomiting, and used laxatives and exercise as
their weight-loss strategies. Even though this study could give some pictures in term of the
subjects, yet it was not emphasized on mental health status thus make this present study need to
be conducted. Plus, this study also has been conducted long time ago so there might be some
changes in student behavior as time goes by.
It is clear from the above literature review that a number of studies and research has been
done and looked into the relationship of BMI and mental health status. More specifically, the
research has been conducted between body weight and their emotional status whether they have
positive or negative psychological well-being among people in general. Hence, this topic is
important to be reviewed because there are arising cases of morbidity and suffer from chronic
illnesses are people who are in the state of obesity. In an additional analysis, people who are
obese and not in the ideal state of BMI trajectory, suffers the highest in statistical analysis stated
of depression, anxiety and stress. Therefore, this research is an awareness for people to stay
healthy and in the state of best BMI to be in a positive well-being. The question is how does BMI
can be related to mental health status? Does it a bidirectional relationship?
However, there is a lack of research whether the research has been conducted on
Malaysia. Currently, the tendency of obesity fostered among Malaysian. The factors contributed
to this phenomena are the lack of physical exercise and uncontrolled of food intake
(Gopalakrishnan , Ganeshkumar & Prakash, 2012). Commonly, youth and young adult are group
of people who really care the most upon their appearances. They are fear of teasing from people
surrounding on their looks and body weight. According to Eisenberg and Sztainer (2003), teasing
about body weight on an individual can be associated with low self-esteem, depression and even
attempting suicide. Therefore, this present study aims to examine the relationship between BMI
and mental health status among youth specifically on undergraduate students of International
Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).
The aim of this research is to investigate the association between BMI and mental health
status which includes depress, anxiety and stress among IIUM students. Therefore, it is
reasonable to hypothesize that people whose BMI is in the state of overweight and obese may
have higher level of depress, anxiety and stress rather than those who are in the average body
weight. However, to confirm this hypothesis further research is needed. From this research, what
can be learnt is the importance of maintaining a good state of BMI in order to sustain a positive
mental and physical well-being. The indicator that lead to mental health status such as depress,
anxiety and stress may be obesity and overweight. Therefore, researcher will make a public
awareness which relates to weight management to sustain fitness among people especially youth.
4. Operational Definitions
Body Mass Index (BMI) or body weight. BMI is a formula to measure the ideal body mass by
calculating weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. The Depression scale
assesses dysphoria, hopelessness, devaluation of life, self-deprecation, lack of
interest/involvement, anhedonia, and inertia. The Anxiety scale assesses autonomic arousal,
skeletal muscle effects, situational anxiety, and subjective experience of anxious affect. The
Stress scale is sensitive to levels of chronic non-specific arousal. It assesses difficulty relaxing,
nervous arousal, and being easily upset/agitated, irritable/over-reactive and impatient. Mental
health status will be measured by using DASS Inventory Scale.
Method
Participant
The participants of this research was enrolled from local student of International Islamic
University Malaysia specifically undergraduate students. There is 100 students which are 50
males and 50 females. The participant will be recruited by using convenience sampling design.
Participants must be in the range of age from 20 to 26 years old. The participants also must be a
single people which means not getting married yet.
Instruments
Body Mass Index (BMI)
Body weight and height will be measured by using weight and height measuring tool that already
located in the psychological lab. Then, the BMI will be calculated by using calculator (weight
[kg]/ height x height [m]). From the BMI result, it will be classified into four categories which
are “underweight”, “normal weight”, “overweight” and “obese”. This categories is classified by
referred Department of Statistics Malaysia, Official Portal which categorized “underweight”
(BMI < 28kg/m), “normal weight” (BMI 19-23.9 kg/m), “overweight” (BMI 24-28 kg/m), and
“obese” (BMI > 29 kg/m).
DASS Inventory
DASS Inventory Scale is a scale to measure Depression, Anxiety and Stress emotional states. In
this study, DASS Inventory with 21-item self-administered questionnaire that used four-point
evaluation scale to assess the level of mental health status which focus more on depression,
anxiety and stress. The higher the scores, the severe the emotional status.
Procedure
The study will be divided into two parts: data collection part and data analysis part. Firstly, the
researcher should ask permission from the Psychology Laboratory Assistant, Brother Faizul in
5. order to use weight-height instrument to measure the BMI of the participants. Before the data
collection period, researcher should determine the potential risk upon this research either it is no
risk research, minimal risk research or full review risk research. Before collecting the data,
participants will be informed consents the purpose of the research, expected duration and
procedures. Participants also will be informed that they have rights to decline to participate and
to withdraw from the research once it has started. After that, the researcher will collect the data
by measuring participant’s BMI and distributing DASS Inventory to the participants afterwards.
After done collecting data, participants will be debriefed. During this stage, the research
questions will be addressed and any misconception will be discussed. Participants also will be
briefed that their details and information are private and confidential. It will not be exposed and
disclosed to the public as it will against the ethics of research. After data collection finished, the
researchers will analyse the data by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS).
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