Background: Psychiatric morbidity profile of children and adolescents is very different from that of adults. These problems are rising but largely remain unreported. Very few studies have been carried out in this specialty of psychiatry.Methods: In this retrospective file review study, all child and adolescent patients attending the general psychiatry out-patient between January-August 2014 in a city of central India. Semi-structured socio-demographic and clinical profile collection performa and international classification of diseases-10 (ICD-10) were used as tool and statistical analysis was done by using SPSS 16.Results: The results showed that among total 2544 children presented during study period, 175 children (6.8%) had psychiatric morbidity. Most of them were in the age group of 11-16 years, from middle income group, illiterate, Hindu by religion and residing in urban locality. No significant sexual preference was found regarding distribution of the disorders. Mental retardation was commonest (n=112; 64%), without (n=42; 24%) and with co-morbidities (epilepsy n=42; 24%, behavioural disturbance n= 28; 16%) found to be the most prevalent disorder followed by epilepsy (7%), ADHD (5.7%), schizophrenia and other psychosis (5.7%), depression (4%) and autism 1.1% and then others.Conclusions: Mental and psychiatric services for children lag behind those for adults in developing countries. Also, a community based study can be a better study design in future.
This study was conducted in a tertiary hospital's psychiatry unit. Legal edible cannabis (bhang) users for more than a year who attended the OPD and IPD during the study period and met the inclusion criteria (age 18 to 60, no history of physical or psychiatric illness) were included in the investigation with their informed consent. 171 patients were recruited after being assured of the study's confidentiality. Special tests evaluated cannabis dependence and psychiatric conditions. (1) CUDIT-R and (2) DSM-5 updated psychiatric morbidity criteria. Population demographics. Patients with CUDs ranged in age from 18 to 60. The majority were age 21 to 30 (49.7%), followed by 31 to 40 (29.8%), 41 to 50 (12.9%), 20 (5.8%), and 51 to 60. (1.8 percent). Male (93.1%) and female patients were roughly evenly split (7.0 percent). 103 of 171 study patients were married (60.2%), compared to 66 unmarried patients (38.6%) who used bhang more often. 1,2% were divorced. The study considered patients' education levels. Middle schoolers had the highest percentage (22.2%), followed by illiterates and graduates (17.5%), high school (12.9%), and postgraduates (0.6 percent). Lower middle class (40.9%) had the most participants, and upper class had the fewest (2.3 percent).
‘Diaspora’ refers to the dispersion of people from their homeland. It is a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic scale. Diaspora Literature can be called works were written by authors who live outside native land. Diaspora writers are often preoccupied with the elements of nostalgia as they seek to locate themselves in the new culture. At the core of the concept of Diaspora lays the image of home. Home is a powerful notion in the study of Diaspora. Here, I have presented my study of the notion of Homeland in Diaspora and its elements. For that, I have taken poems of Moniza Alvi from her anthology “Split World: Poems (1990- 2005)”. Moniza Alvi is a Pakistani-British poet and writer. She was born in Pakistan and grew up in England. In some of her poems, she drew the image of Homeland, which has glimpses of nostalgia. The split world includes poems of five collections. Here, I have examined how Homeland reflects in Alvi’s poems and how she reconstructs home through poetry. Further, my conclusion is that the identity of Homeland has held onto those people living in host land and it reflects in their works.
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