Is Spirituality Helping to Overcome Anxiety, Depression and Mental Stress Among Blind Adolescents? : A Cross Sectional Study of a Blind School, Meerut

Abstract

Background Vision impairment can extend from no vision – visual impairment – or exceptionally low vision to not having the option to see specific hues. Serious vision misfortune or visual deficiency can influence your kid's development and learning. Early mediation can enable your kid to contact his maximum capacity. Otherworldliness gives an individual a feeling of rising above their prompt conditions and an intrapersonal development of direction and importance for their own life, with an inward feeling of association and trust in their own interior assets. Objective The goals of this study were to examine the impact of spirituality on both coping skills and vision-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and the effect of psychological manifestations among Sparsh Govt. Blind Inter College, Partapur Meerut. Methods A cross sectional study was conducted and purposive sampling was used. Percentages and chi square test was used to find the most common and association of different psychological manifestations. Result In our study, 13.8% had depression of varying degree. The most common psychological manifestation was anxiety (46.7%) among them and 11.7% of students were feeling stress in their life. Students with depression and stress affected coping ability while stress had no affect Conclusion It was found in the study that spirituality was positively associated with coping ability and hence with general mental health. Moreover, spirituality was associated significantly with vision-specific HRQOL. The results showed that spirituality played a mediating role in the linkage between vision impairment and general mental health among adolescents of Sparsh Govt. Blind Inter College, Partapur, Meerut.

Prevalence of depression in visually impaired children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Depression was assessed using a number of different tools. Depression was diagnosed by diagnostic schedules for four studies[ 26 , 33 , 34 , 37 ] and others by rating scales like Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI),[ 19 , 35 ] Beck Depression Inventory (BDI),[ 31 , 32 ] the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale - 21 Items (DASS-21),[ 27 , 28 , 30 ] and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). [ 29 , 36 ]…”