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Dementia is one of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders seen in old age with accompanying memory loss, aggressive behaviour, sleep problems and wandering behaviour with confusion. Many patients with dementia may be all alone at home with a domestic help and no family caregiver for most of the day and may sometimes wander off from their homes. Hence, dementia care programmes insist that an identity card with the patient’s key details be worn, in case the patient wanders away and is unable to return home or inform people about the location of their home.
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Digital amnesia is a concept that existed since 2007 and has addressed this phenomenon as a constantthreat to human memory arising out of excessive digital gadget use. The following review paper looks atthe construct of digital amnesia from its inception to its current conceptualization. The paper also reviewsthe phenomenon named the Google effect and the seminal findings from studies of Kapersky Laboratoryconducted in India and abroad. The process of how digital amnesia is caused is addressed and preventivemeasures for the same are suggested.
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Background and Objectives: Adolescence is a crucial phase of one’s life, given the physical andpsychological changes that occur during this phase. Number of adolescent suicides are on rise and a largenumber of adolescents report higher suicidal ideations during this phase. Suicide ideation involves thoughtsand cognitions about suicidal behavior. It involves thoughts related to desire, intent or method of committingsuicide. Research on suicide ideation has established strong links between depression and hopelessness withsuicidal thoughts and tendencies. Depressed adolescents are reported to be highly vulnerable to developsuicide ideations. In addition to depression and hopelessness, familial variables like support from parentsand emotional bonding with them is detrimental to such outcomes like suicide ideation. The present studythus aims to find depression, hopelessness, emotional autonomy and hardiness as predictors of suicideideation in adolescents.Methods: A sample of 400 adolescents (242 = Females and 158 = Males) in the age group of 15 – 22 (MeanAge = 18.36 years) years was taken. Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Hopelessness Scale, Personal ViewsSurvey, Emotional Autonomy Scale and Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation were used to collect the data. Thedata so obtained for the predictor variables was first factor analysed so as to obtain independent factors.Results: Results revealed single factor with high factor loadings on all the four predictor variables. The factorscores from this factor were further used in linear regression in order to predict suicide ideation inadolescents. Regression analysis revealed that the factor was a significant predictor of suicide ideation. Theobtained results have been elucidated.Conclusion: There is a very high prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress among interns working inMaharashtra which needs to be effectively dealt with on an urgent basis. The strong association of theprevalence of psychological illnesses with many factors and stressors faced by them will help us highlightthe contributory factors and suggest strategies to deal with them effectively at a personal, institutional andnational level.
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Background and Objectives: The phenomenon of internet addiction has grown to be one of the mostdiscussed and clinically implicated areas in research for the last decade. The aim of this study was todetermine the level of internet addiction among youth and its relation to depression, anxiety and / or stressamong the Indian youth.Methods: The sample for this study was 349 male and female participants between the age group of 15-29years, across various cities in India. Convenient sampling and snowball sampling methods were engenderedfor the purpose of collecting data. The Internet Addiction Test (IAT) by Kimberley Young and theDepression Anxiety and Stress Scale- 21 (DASS- 21) by Lovibond and Lovibond was administered to thesample. A two-way MANOVA was used to analyse the data of this study.Results: Results showed that all findings for Wilk’s Lambda and Pillai’s Trace assessing the relationshipbetween internet addiction and gender with depression, anxiety and stress were non-significant.Conclusion: The findings suggest that there is a relationship between internet addiction, depression, anxietyand stress. However, the findings of this study suggest that there is no significant relationship betweeninternet addiction and gender with depression, anxiety and / or stress among Indian youth.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is seen to have links with eating disorders which have been demonstratedin the early 1900s and is supported by the personality trait of ‘compulsion neurosis’. Personality traitsshown to be shared between EDs and OCD are perfectionism and neuroticism. The review furtherexplores overlapping factors between the two conditions.