Association between leisure time activities and emotional intelligence among school students in Kollam district of South Kerala

Background: Leisure activity plays a key role in forming an individual’s physical and mental development. Both leisure-time physical activity and emotional intelligence (EI) are related to health-related quality of life. Objectives were to assess the EI of school children belonging to various boards and to find out whether leisure time activity has association with EI. Methods: A cross-sectional study was undertaken among 200 school students belonging to various boards of Kollam district. EI was measured using self-report EI developed by Shuttle et al for-data collection. Results: Among 200 subjects, 50 students studying in 9th standard belonging to different boards were taken from each school, 146 (73%) of students belonged to nuclear family, 154 (77%) shared their daily events with family. 109 (54%) choose arts as leisure time activity and 91 (45.5%) chose sports, 112 (56%) of the students spend at least one hour in social media and only 55 (27.5%) had a habit of reading newspaper daily. Significant statistical association was found between gender, type of school, sharing events with their parents, leisure time activity and EI (p<0.05). Conclusions: The study concluded that leisure activity has significant role in the developing EI of a person. It was found that the government (State syllabus) school children have better EI comparing with other boards and also the students who are good at arts also have good EI.

Avaliação do erro nas coordenadas de localização estereotática guiada por tomografia computadorizada do encéfalo / CT-guided stereotactic localization for brain lesions. An evaluation of the error in the acquisition and calculation of the coordinates

São analisados 106 procedimentos em pacientes submetidos à estereotomografia. Os procedimentos foram realizados para obtenção de biópsias cerebrais, orientação de craniotomias, colocação de cateter em cavidade tumoral, drenagem de hematoma e de abscesso intracerebrais. As orientações de craniotomia foram realizadas para localizar más-formações arteriovenosas, tumores e processos inflamatórios, em 21 pacientes. As biópsias cerebrais estereotáticas, realizadas em 82 casos para diagnóstico anatomopatológico, apresentaram índice de positividade de 87,5 por cento, com complicações em 1,2 por cento dos casos. São analisadas estatisticamente as variáveis, como: idade, sexo, procedimento realizado, diagnóstico anatomopatológico e volume das lesões. É discutida a imprecisão na aquisição e cálculo das coordenadas estereotáticas com a tomografia computadorizada do encéfalo e verificada a precisão do método estereotomográfico com a utilização de um phanton. O maior erro das coordenadas foi de 6,8 mm com cortes tomográficos axiais de 4 mm a 5 mm.