Psychological stress in Northeast Indian students pursuing their higher studies in Mangalore

Baliga, ManjeshwarShrinath; D'silva, Prajna; Palatty, PrincyLouis; D’souza, Ovine Loyster; Chandran, SupreethKakkaje

doi:10.4103/ijsp.ijsp_96_19

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“…Postgraduate research students are known to experience multiple sources of anxiety or perceived stress (eg, deadlines to complete various projects, publication demands, course work requirements, and thesis submissions). 32 , 33 Additionally, increased exposure to television has been observed to have a detrimental effect on mental health during the pandemic. 34 However, there is limited relevant research regarding sleep hygiene, anxiety levels, and perceived stress among postgraduate research students during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Evaluation of Sleep Habits, Generalized Anxiety, Perceived Stress, and Research Outputs Among Postgraduate Research Students in Hong Kong During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

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Evaluation of Sleep Habits, Generalized Anxiety, Perceived Stress, and Research Outputs Among Postgraduate Research Students in Hong Kong During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

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Antwi‐Afari³

et al. 2021

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Effectiveness of Yoga Nidra in reducing stress in school going adolescents: An experimental study

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Suresh

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Usefulness of structured teaching module in improving knowledge about cancer in Accredited Social Health Activist: A pilot study

Rao,

Shetty

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Aim: In India, the Accredited Social Health Activists (abbreviated as ASHA) are an important group of community health workers and are involved in initiating and maintaining health care programs in the rural communities they live. This study was conducted with a purpose to evaluate the effectiveness of a structured teaching module in improving knowledge on cancer cause, diagnosis, and treatment in the ASHA workers. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional pretest posttest study and was conducted from April 2017 to February 2020 with ASHA workers working in the various Primary Health Centers in Udupi and South Kanara districts of Karnataka and Kasargod district of Kerala in India after obtaining the permission from the medical officer in charge of the respective primary health centers. The participants were briefed about the study objective and also that confidentiality will be maintained. A validated investigator developed questionnaire consisting of 20 questions categorized into four domains (general, subject, diagnosis, and treatment aspects) was distributed to the willing volunteers before the start of the program. They were instructed to fill the pretest form before and posttest after the teaching program. Informed content was taken in a separate sheet and volunteers were informed not to write any personal or identification details. Resource persons with experience in cancer cause, diagnosis and treatment delivered the structured talk in the local language Kannada. The data collected from the filled questionnaires were subjected to frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation and appropriately subjected to Chi-square test or paired t-test. A P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The demographic detail suggest that majority of the women were Hindus (79.3%), married (93.7%), between the age of 31–40 (46.7%) and had only matriculation as the highest education (68%). The analysis of the pretest administration collected before the start of teaching program indicates that most participants were aware of self-breast examination (79.74%) and that cancer is a disease as old as human civilization (70.26%), while only 8.82% were unaware of which is the leading type of cancer in rural women. The results analyzed from posttest indicate that the highest percentage change (323.96%) was observed for domain on treatment aspects followed by for general (64.03%), diagnosis (56.70%), and subject (36.42%) aspect and was significant (P < 0.001). The total mean values changed from 6.48 ± 2.01 in pretest to 11.81 ± 2.15 in posttest indicating an increase of 5.33 ± 1.91 and percentage change of 82.25% (P < 0.001). The results also showed that 60.8% had average, while 39.2% had good increment in the knowledge at the end of the program. Conclusions: The observations of the current study indicate the usefulness of the structured teaching module in improving knowledge on cancer cause, diagnosis and treatment in the ASHA workers. It is proposed that with further training ASHA workers can be very useful in the propagation of cancer awareness and screening in the community they serve.

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Psychological stress in Northeast Indian students pursuing their higher studies in Mangalore

Cited by 3 publications

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Evaluation of Sleep Habits, Generalized Anxiety, Perceived Stress, and Research Outputs Among Postgraduate Research Students in Hong Kong During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

Evaluation of Sleep Habits, Generalized Anxiety, Perceived Stress, and Research Outputs Among Postgraduate Research Students in Hong Kong During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

Effectiveness of Yoga Nidra in reducing stress in school going adolescents: An experimental study

Usefulness of structured teaching module in improving knowledge about cancer in Accredited Social Health Activist: A pilot study

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