Prevention Of Mental Diseases Research Articles

Mental Health Literacy among Secondary School Students Attending Government Schools in Kohalpur Municipality

Introduction: Mental Health Literacy is a broader concept under Health Literacy which enables a person to recognize mental disorders, seeks knowledge on prevention of mental diseases, ability to help others, increases use of available health services and enhances improved self-help strategies for better management of mental illness.
 Aims: To determine the sociodemographic factors that influence mental health literacy, assessment of knowledge, erroneous beliefs/stereotypes, help-seeking behaviours and self-help strategies associated with mental health.
 Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted among the selected secondary school students, by simple random technique from selected government schools in Kohalpur using the mental health questionnaire, (5-point Likert scale). Statistical analysis was done using SPSS 20 and levels of mental health literacy in various domains was calculated.
 Results: Among 420 participants, 53.33% were females and 46.67% males with mean age 15.12 years. The proximity to people with mental health problems was 13.1% and without was 86.9%. The Global Mental Health Literacy mean (3.67 with SD+/- 0.30) was taken as the reference point, the mean score above which is considered high and below it is low. Low levels of Knowledge (mean 3.64, SD+/- 0.43) and erroneous beliefs (mean 3.38, SD+/- 0.39) of mental health literacy were observed. Levels of self-help strategies (mean 3.96, SD+/- 0.703) was highest followed by help-seeking behaviours (mean 3.94, SD+/- 0.61).
 Conclusion: There are low levels of knowledge and high stereotypes/ erroneous beliefs in secondary school children studying in government schools. Programs aimed to increase knowledge and awareness on mental health and decrease stereotypes need to be implemented at schools.

The occurrence and prevention of mental diseases after osteoarthritis in the lateral compartment of the knee

BackgroundOsteoarthritis in the lateral compartment of the knee joint is more common in middle-aged and elderly patients. Symptoms include pain, swelling, snapping, stiffness, and joint effusion. At present, there are many ways to treat osteoarthritis in the lateral compartment of the knee joint, and most people adopt conservative treatment. However, for patients with more serious conditions, conservative treatment cannot achieve obvious results, but surgical treatment is required. However, surgical treatment often causes psychological stress on patients, especially elderly patients. Therefore, the study focused on the occurrence and prevention of psychological diseases in patients with lateral knee osteoarthritis after postoperative care programs including psychological treatment.Subjects and MethodsA total of 110 patients with osteoarthritis in the lateral compartment of the knee admitted to a hospital from July 2020 to January 2022 were selected as the research objects. The enrolled patients were randomly divided into two groups, the control group and the observation group, with 55 cases in each group. In the control group, there were 29 males and 26 females, aged 37-79 years, with an average of (60.22 ± 14.15) years old. In the observation group, there were 32 males and 23 females, aged from 35 to 80 years old, with an average of (60.83 ± 14.34) years old. There was no significant difference in general data between the two groups (P > 0.05), which were comparable. The control group was given routine postoperative care, and the observation group was given experimental nursing program including psychotherapy.ResultsFrom the perspective of coping style, there was no significant difference (P > 0.05) in the scores of positive and negative coping styles between the two groups before nursing. After nursing, the positive coping style of the observation group was higher than that of the control group (P < 0.05), and the score of negative coping style was lower than that of the control group (P < 0.05). In terms of anxiety and depression scores, there was no significant difference in SAS (Self-Rating Anxiety Scale) and SDS (Self-Rating Depression Scale) scores between the two groups (P > 0.05). After nursing, the SAS and SDS scores of the observation group were significantly lower than those of the control group (P < 0.05), as shown in Table 1.Table 1.Comparison of SAS and SDS scores before and after group careGroupTimeSAS scoreSDS scoreObservation group (n = 55)Before care54.88±6.1355.10±6.22After care46.75±4.3247.24±5.19Control group (n = 55)Before care54.09±6.3755.08±6.34After care52.16±5.3853.84±6.14ConclusionsThe coping style and psychological state of patients with osteoarthritis in the lateral compartment of the knee have a greater impact on postoperative recovery, and individualized nursing including psychotherapy can help improve their coping style and psychological state.AcknowledgementThe research is supported by: The Eighth Batch of Gansu Science and Technology Program Funding Projects (Key R&D Program) in 2020+Clinical research and application of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty in the treatment of middle-aged and elderly patients with unicompartmental knee osteoarthritis in Hexi Corridor+20YF8FG066; The Fifth Batch of Gansu Science and Technology Program Funding Projects (Basic Research Program-Natural Science Foundation) in 2022+ To investigate the molecular mechanism of LncRNA PVT1 regulating osteosarcoma ferroptosis through miRNA-106a-5p/MDM4 pathway +22JR5RG570; 2022 Innovation Fund Project of Gansu Provincial Department of Education+ To study the clinical efficacy of platelet-rich plasma combined with arthroscopic surgery in the treatment of early and middle stage knee osteoarthritis+2022B-189.

Application effect of self-made micro-video in practical teaching of mental and psychological nursing

Objective To explore the application effect of self-made micro-video in practical teaching of mental and psychological nursing. Methods Two classes in major Nursing enrolled in 2013 were selected randomly. A total of 51 students from Class 12 were designated as the experimental group, and were taught assisted by self-made micro-videos, while another 53 students from Class 11 belonged to the control group, and were taught assisted by traditional instructional video. The students were surveyed by questionnaire on knowledge awareness rate on mental disease prevention, regulated in mental health work index investigation and evaluation scheme, formulated by General Office of National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China, basing on which, teaching effect was compared. Results After practical teaching, total accuracy rate of case examination by students in the experimental group was 94.12% (compared with 39.22% before the practice) , and in control group, 81.13% (compared with 33.96% before the practice) . Scores of attitude towards mental disease in the experimental group were (54.39±4.68) , and in the control group (35.15±7.69) (t=15.49, P<0.01) . Conclusions Applying self-made micro-video in practical teaching of mental and psychological nursing can effectively improve accuracy rate of mental disease recognition of the students, correct their attitude towards patients with mental disorders, with satisfying effect in practice. Key words: Education, nursing; Micro-video; Teaching method; Mental and psychological nursing

Context aware based user customized light therapy service using security framework

Current IT market has increased significantly boosted by the development of network technology and IT technology. As we move into an aging society, global people have paid attentions to the matters related to health while the many technologies related to health have been developed, too. Such a change of social paradigm has improved the quality of life but various mental diseases show its growing trend. The past mental disease matters were limited to the area of chronic mental disease patients, but recently light mental diseases including the stress caused by excessive work and internet addiction are included in this area. Especially there are many cases where early treatable depressions have been developed into the serious diseases as they had no chance to recognition and healing or missed the appropriate time for healing. Even if various health related mobile services to solve this show it gradual growing trend now, providing services which correspond to the needs of users, are difficult in the actual situation, while many researches are performed to provide the customized service by utilizing PHR but they are very vulnerable in the aspect of security. Therefore, in this paper, we proposed the context aware based user customized light therapy service using security framework. The proposed service applied the context aware based security framework to enhance the security of health service for PHR interlocking, which can protect the medical information by complying with standard based encryption, security guideline. For this purpose, we arranged that object group support component of DOGF should be existed in server system and components such as user information and distributed sources re-composed by smart health for service providing. Based on this, the user’s states was analyzed in real time through Personal Health Record and Galvanic Skin Response of users, the brightness and chromaticity of bulb was adjusted depending on the states of user for soothing effect, the real-time states was figured out through questionnaires for mental states analysis of smartphone application to provide the real-time treatment for users stress alleviating and concentration enhancement. Also focused on Psychological illness, we arranged to provide the real-time light therapy according to the states of users based on the data of patients collected from smart device in order to mental disease prevention and treatment caused from the stress of workers who work with computer for a long time such as office workers, program developer and home workers.

Frankwood E. Williams: Finding a Way in Mental Hygiene

Frankwood E. Williams: Finding a Way in Mental Hygiene

Some thoughts on the training of the psychiatrist

E DUCATION in the professions is usually more responsive to practice than to theory. The psychiatrist is an example of a practitioner whose role has seen a number of changes over the past half century. His education is more likely to be related to empirically derived changes in practice than to new discoveries in the chemistry laboratory. A setting like the one in which his practice will occur is likely to be the locus of his education. The psychiatrist originally was a caretaker of the insane in an asylum. With the development of treatment for mental illness, he became a medically oriented specialist-often a neuropsychiatrist-hoping to find an explanation for mental illness in organic changes in the central nervous system. Later, when dynamic psychology opened new vistas, the psychiatrist became an office practitioner treating patients from a behavioral-science point of view. The newest phase in American psychiatric practice is represented by the community mental-health movement. Here the psychiatrist has become more responsive to social problems and works as a member of a multidisciplinary team dealing in prevention of mental disease as well as in direct treatment. In this role, the locus of his education has shifted from hospital to clinic and finally to a multiservice center in the community itself. The psychiatrist of the nineteenth century was a diagnostician, influenced by schools that classified mental disorder and then consigned the patient to long-term custodial care in a hospital usually far removed from population centers. Out of the medical orientation that functional change must be related to altered structure, the psychiatrist was often a physician who examined his patient for neurological disease and, not infrequently, a neuropathologist who examined the brain postmortem. The turn of the century saw the development of psychoanalysis and a concomitant growing interest in psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic education generally took place in institutes not associated with medical schools. Only after World War II did psychoanalysis begin to make a real impact on the practice of psychiatry and consequently upon the training of the psychiatrist. The Flexnerian reforms in the second decade of the twentieth century moved medical education out of its trade-school orientation into university settings. At the same time, the rapid expansion of knowledge and research in the health sciences resulted in the growth of the specialization movement. One school of psychiatrists identified with other medical specialists who treated their patients on specialized wards in general hospitals. They saw only the most seriously ill, followed them briefly after hospital treatment, and were inclined to use somatic therapy and biological explanations. The psychodynamic psychiatrists, on the other hand, viewed mental disorder as resulting from intrapsychic conflict; their approach was usually

The Prevention of Mental Disease

The Prevention of Mental Disease

What may be hoped for in the prevention of mental disease

What may be hoped for in the prevention of mental disease

The prevention of mental disease as a practical proposition

The prevention of mental disease as a practical proposition

THE TEETH IN CHILDHOOD

The prevention of disease and the early recognition of physical and mental defects have long been the pride of pediatricians; the same should be true of the prevention of mental disease and the early recognition of dental defects. More and more parents are bringing their children to the physician with the request that routine physical examinations be made to see if the child is normal, and he then has an opportunity which may not be afforded the dentist until much later. Unfortunately, in the "complete" examination, the teeth are often overlooked. The responsibility for the prevention of dental disorders rests as much with the physician as with the dentist, and more especially with the pediatrician, who alone has ample opportunity to study the teeth of the child, and can often refer to the dentist children who might not otherwise be taken to him. In the recognition of anomalous dentition, a

Prevention of Mental Diseases

Previous articleNext article FreePrevention of Mental DiseasesJules Morel, and C. R. HendersonJules Morel Search for more articles by this author , and C. R. Henderson Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 5, Number 1Jul., 1899 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/210867 Views: 106Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Thomas James Phelan From the attic of theAmerican Journal of Sociology: Unusual contributions to American sociology, 1895?1935, Sociological Forum 4, no.11 (Mar 1989): 71–86.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01112617