Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pages: 1485-1492
Hiteshkumar B. Roz and Dimpal T. Raval (Department of Law, Raksha Shakti University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat)

The Police is an active branch of the justice system responsible for maintenance of law and order. Stress in policing brings about burnout and health problems that complicate job performance, interpersonal relationships etc. The study aims to find significant differences between Ahmedabad City Police officers and subjects having other professions with respect to Occupational Stress, Burnout, Stressful Life Events, Depression and Anxiety. The sample consists of 852 subjects, divided equally into Police officers group and group of subjects having other professions. Assessment was done using Occupational Stress Index (Srivastava & Singh, 1984); Burnout Inventory (Misra, 2012); Presumptive Stressful Life Event Scale (Singh, Kaur, & Kaur, 1984) and Depression, Anxiety Stress Scales (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995). The findings revealed significant differences between two groups with respect to Occupational Stress, Burnout, stressful life events, Depression and Anxiety and all of these variables were found to be more in Police officers. The study highlights that Police are vulnerable to mental health problems and need to undergo adequate intervention programme.

Pages: 1497-1504
Mohamed Mousa (Estonian Business School, Tallinn, Estonia)

Due to its effect on both individual outcomes like job mobility, job satisfaction, job involvement and fair remuneration on the one hand and organizational outcomes like employees' attendance, turnover, cynicism and performance on the other, diversity has become a rising trend more than ever before. The concept is no longer limited to Western countries but has become popular in many parts of the world. This study focuses only on Kasr El Eini hospital and in an attempt to investigate how nurses perceive their diversity. 25 semi- structured interviews were conducted and the findings reflect that nurses at Kasr El Eini hospital, like many other classes of Egyptian society, struggle in a state of division and lack the value of inclusion in their workplace. Moreover, distributive justice was perceived with doubt by nurses there. The paper ends with the recommendation that managers at Kasr El Eini hospital establish a professional identity for the hospital in which the concept “good colleague” should be utilized. Furthermore, paying attention to both inclusion and justice is also a needed mechanism there.

Pages: 1510-1513
Fahim Ul Hassan, Kasi Sekar, and E Aravind Raj (Department of Psychiatric Social Work, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Bengalur Karnataka)

More than one billion children live in countries affected by prolonged armed conflict. Most of these conflicts occur in lower and middle income countries which are home to 90% of the world's population of children and adolescents. The exposure to violence in children results in ontogenesis of psychological distress in the form of depression and anxiety including posttraumatic stress reactions, difficulties with anger management, emotional deregulation, interpersonal deficits, and functional impairment. In Kashmir children have been subjected to exposure from armed conflict repeatedly since last six decades, with no adequate research or interventions. School Mental Health programs promote healthy social, emotional, and behavioral development of children, and offer potential help to reduce the gap between needs and appropriate services for those children who experience or at increased risk for a range of mental health problems. In India there has been some efforts towards execution of mental health programs at school level however, has been reported to lack rigor in objectives, clarity on mechanism of their delivery, evaluation, restricted presence to urban settings and dearth of literature especially research pertaining to implementation of school mental health programs in conflict affected areas. This paper will focus on understanding mental health problems of children affected by armed conflict. It will also review some of the existing research studies about the effectiveness of school mental health programs to address mental health problems of conflict affected children.

Pages: 1518-1521
Dinesh Naik (Department of Psychology, Arts, Commerce & Science College, Lasalgaon, Nashik, Maharashtra)

A sample of 80 (40 burns & 40 normal population) from Pune city was selected to study relationship between personality and coping styles among convalescing burns and normal population. The tools used for the present study were 'NEO-Five Factor Inventory' by Costa and McCrae (1992) and 'Ways of Coping Questionnaire' by Lazarus and Folkman (1980). Statistical analysis was done with help of SPSS 18 with appropriate statistical methods like 't' test and Pearson product moment correlation. The obtained results show that there were differences on five factors of personality and coping styles among convalescing burn patients and normal population.

Pages: 1528-1532
Riddhi Goel and Anjali Malik (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)

Risk taking behavior is now a common aspect of the adolescent behavior. There is no doubt of considering risk taking to be developmentally appropriate for developing autonomy or forming an identity. In recent years it is observed that risk taking can have grave consequences. It is now known to have long lasting harmful effects. Adolescents experience pressure from all domains and peer pressure is one of the factor which pushes them to indulge in high risk behavior that can bring them into direct conflict. So peer pressure should be an important variable of focus. Keeping this in mind, the present investigation was adopted in the present study. A sample of 394 adolescents of 10th and 11th standard was selected. The age range of the participants was 14-17 years. Risk taking questionnaire and peer pressure inventory were administered on the subjects. The data was analyzed by coefficient of correlation by Pearson's Product moment method. The results indicated that out of five dimensions of peer pressure only four dimensions are significantly related to risk taking behavior. School involvement and family involvement have been found significantly and negatively related to risky behavior whereas significant and positive relationship has been found on misconduct and peer involvement dimensions amongst adolescents. It indicates that getting involved in school and family activities can lower the risky behavior. On the other hand getting too much involved with peer group and indulging in unacceptable behavior can lead to high risky behavior. No significant relationships were found between peer conformity and risk taking behavior. From the present findings it can be inferred that introducing an intervention program to tackle the risk taking behavior of adolescents and ways of handling peer pressure can be favorable for the holistic development of adolescents.

Pages: 1535-1539
Chitkala Venkareddy and Sangeetha R. Mane (Department of Social Work, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka)

Schools train children in co-operative and mutually helpful living to become socially effective human beings in a democratic society. To make a child to set goals include learning to accept responsibility, to know the world of education, to make decisions, to solve one's own problems, to understand human relations, to develop sound values and to create a sense of social responsibility both Teachers and Parents play an important role. But in this Competitive race some children who exhibit Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Symptoms (ADHD) lack focused attention. Such students appear to satiate quickly on tasks, because they are easily distracted by all stimuli are very sensitive emotionally and neurologically and fails often to face difficulties understanding social situations even the teachers at school level and parents at habitat can face overwhelming stress resulting in deterioration of health. The present study stresses on the impact of ADHD symptoms on Health of school children, teachers and parents a comparative study is conducted from different Government, Pvt Aided and Pvt Unaided Schools in Dharwad City by adopting descriptive design, random sampling method, self constructed questionnaire is framed to know their impact on various health factors in different dimensions and conners scale was administered to teachers and parents to identify children exhibiting ADHD symptoms. The results were obtained by using Annova Test and it is seen that be seen that, a significant difference is observed between children, teachers and parents of children with respect to impact scores towards health (F=391.9393, p<0.05) at 5% level of significance Further, to know the pair wise comparisons of children, teachers and parents of children by applying the Tukeys multiple posthoc procedures the children have significant higher impact scores towards health as compared to teachers and parents. Teachers have significant higher impact scores towards health as compared to parents of children. Thus early identification and remediation is a matter of perennial concern as they deprive child's ability to function socially, academically, at home and school thus by helping child to build self-confidence and improving Family Dynamics by making micro adjustments can make a macro difference instead of struggling with symptoms associated with ADHD.

Pages: 1545-1550
Anil Kumar, Ashok Kumar Godara, Ashok Kumar, and Jitender Kumar Bhatia (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana)

The study was conducted in purposively selected Hisar districts of Haryana state (India) with selected 61 number of Photovoltaic Water Pumping System (PWPS) adopted farmers from this district, and an equal number of non beneficiaries adjoining to the beneficiaries' farm were also selected. In this way a total number of 122 respondents i.e. 61 beneficiaries and 61 non-beneficiaries were included in the sample for the study. A significant majority of respondents two third (67.21 %) had medium level of technical knowledge, general knowledge (73.77 %) and overall knowledge (70.49 %) by the adopted respondents. In case of non adopted respondents, as high as had low level of technical knowledge (81.96 %), general knowledge (70.49 %) and three-fourth of farmers (72.13 %) overall knowledge. Majority of respondents 60.65% and 45.90% had favourable attitude in case of adopted and non-adopted, respectively. Land holding, education, socio-economic status, extension contact, source of income, risk orientation and change proneness were found to have positive and significant correlation ship. However, in case of non adopted farmers' socio-economic status and risk orientation were found to have positive and significant correlation ship. The regression coefficient of adopted farmers' Land holding, education, socio-economic status, extension contact, source of income, risk orientation were found to have positive and significant regression coefficient. However, in case of non adopted farmers, In case of non adopted farmers, socio- economic status and extension contact had positive and significant regression coefficient with the farmers' knowledge level.

Pages: 1561-1565
Anu Verma (Department of Public Administration, DAV College, Chandigarh)

Since times immemorial, the teacher has always occupied a prominent place in the society. The teacher holds a valuable position not only in the education system but also in the life of an individual. The teacher acts as a guiding force to mould and nurture the young minds to make them worthy citizens. They act as a channel/medium between student and school (as source) to impart education and values in them. They help in directing and channelizing the potential of young generation. The teacher thus plays a significant role in the nation building and character formation. Education acts as an important tool to prepare the students to develop problem-solving and decision-making skills. This makes them self-sufficient to face the present day challenges and cater to the needs of the modern society. In the education system, the degrees of success of any program or policy depend upon the effectiveness of a teacher. The quality of a teacher ensures the quality of any educational programme. Hence, apart from the professional degrees and training required to be eligible to become a teacher, sincere efforts should be made from time to time to upgrade the knowledge, skills and quality of teaching to improve the educational standards.

Pages: 1570-1573
Suman Hooda and Arunima Gupta (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)

Children with developmental disabilities put great impact not only on the lives of the children but also on the lives of their caregivers especially the family members. Fostering a child with intellectual disabilities resulted in increased risk of mental agony, frustration, stress, anxiety, depressive symptoms and other psychological problems among the primary caregivers. The worry about child's future, economic burden, lack of emotional or social support and excessive physical care put parents into psychological distress affecting their mental health. The present study is an attempt to assess and compare the mental health of primary caregivers having children with mild and moderate intellectual disability and parents having children with average intelligence. A multi group design was employed. A sample of 150 healthy parents (50 with mild intellectually disabled children, 50 with moderate intellectually disabled children & 50 having children with average intelligence), was administered Mental Health Inventory by Veit and Ware (1983). Data was analyzed by using one- way ANOVA followed by Tukey's post hoc test. Significant differences were evident on the domains of mental health i.e. on psychological distress and psychological well-being among primary caregivers having children with mild and moderate intellectual disability and parents having children with average intelligence.

Pages: 1580-1583
Shivani Dhodi and Indu Bansal (Department of Home Science, Banasthali Vidhyapith, Tonk, Rajasthan)

A medical career begins with encircling a broad range of study, eventually narrowing down to specialization and sub specialization. Fairly little is recognized about evolution from the medical student to the specialist. However number of studies has been conducted on career choices still very less data is available in this field. Keeping this in mind researcher has formulated the following objectives. To study specialty preference of medical students; to identify personal and family factors influencing speciality preference of medical students. 677 final year medical students of 10 north Indian medical colleges. A self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. A descriptive survey based study was conducted. Data analysis was done using Microsoft Excel. Frequency, Percentage and was used to presents the data. According to the level of preference scores computed for each career preference, surgery and internal medicine was preferred by majority of respondents were as a few selected diagnostics and other specialty. Coming over the personal factors majority of medical students were highly influenced by self interest and name and fame, where as only a few were influenced by social service and health history where as in family factors majority of medical students were highly influenced by care of the family and parental wishes and least influenced by family occupation and health history of family members. Opposing to the trendy belief that career choices are made after internship, this study explained that these are made within and even before entering to medical school. These choices are influenced by numerous factors.

Pages: 1591-1595
Neetima Batra (Department of Home Science G.G.S.S.S., Kaimri, Hisar, Haryanayana)
Manju Mehta (Department of Family Resource Management, I. C. College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana )

Vastu shastra is science of balancing energies and it is highly recommended for good and peaceful living. Keeping this view in mind a research was planned purposively on 100 homemakers who have altered / renovated houses according to vastu principles. Some aspects of beginning of construction and basic vastu principles were choose from a elaborated list of vastu principles by making a long inventory from various books, magazines, newspaper, websites etc. and checked by various vastu shastries, Pandits and vastu practitioners from Hisar city. After that level of satisfaction score containing highly satisfied, satisfied and dissatisfied on three quantum scale these aspects were studied and found that some aspects like underground water tank should be in NE direction, no trees towards NE side, drainage system should be E and N side were applied by more than 85% of homemakers. Surprisingly 90 percent of them were highly satisfied by making underground tank in NE and no tress in N and E. less than 10 percent homemakers were found dissatisfied by renovating /constructing house according to vastu principles. Regarding constraints faced while renovating/constructing house according to vastu, social & economic constraint were scored high as compared to other technical and structural constraints.