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Background: Mental Health Literacy (MHL) for Substance Use and related disorders in college students is important as adolescents are at high risk for initiating substance use due to peer pressure and social influences. Poor knowledge about harmful effects of substance and positive association between poor knowledge and negative attitude towards substance users is observed in college students. Aims: Study aimed to assess the Substance Use related Mental Health Literacy in Medical and Nursing College students at Tertiary Care Hospital attached to Medical College. 2Methods:It was a cross- sectional observational study in 2nd and 3rd Year Medical and Nursing college students. Substance Use related ‘Knowledge and Attitude Addiction Questionnaire for Adolescents’ (KAAQA),( 31 items with ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response) a self-reported questionnaire was used. IEC permission was taken. Written Informed consent was taken from all participants. Data analysis was done by SPSS version 15. Results: Majority of students (76.1%) reported that substance abusing youths are influential in their group. Majority (90.4%) knew the harmful effect of substance. Nursing students had low knowledge and negative attitude towards substance use and users as compared to Medical students. Compared to nursing students, low self intake of substance and increase assertiveness was found in medical students. Conclusion: Study identified low knowledge and attitude of students towards Substance Use. It highlighted the need for more awareness programs in medical and nursing colleges to promote a better understanding of substance use and problems related to it and designing intervention and support programs.
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Background: In today’s world there is a continuous struggle between science and spirituality, with a lot ofdoctors feeling that religion gets in the way of scientific treatment and sometimes also leads to very direand dangerous consequences. While a lot of older concepts are invalid today, there is a reason why suchconcepts existed in the first place and they were also backed by some sort of logic and rationale. It istherefore essential to compare and correlate the older concepts with the newer ones since they shall alsogive an insight regarding the existing psychological concepts at that time.Methodology: We studied and compared the various stages of ego development currently accepted mainlyincluding Loevinger’s and Piaget’s stages of ego and cognitive development and correlated it with theIndian mythological concepts of Manas, Buddhi, Chitta and Ahamkara. They can also be correlated withcertain concepts by Freud, Jung and Erikson. The sources of this information were various religiousscriptures like the Vedas and the Bhagwad Gita and at the same time we have correlated it with variousinterpretations mentioned in encyclopaedias like Britannica and DK.Result: While the study is our interpretation of the review of literature, we do realize that mythologicalconcepts are very abstract due to the wide time span; and various writers and scripture producers and theirinterpretations are also very subjective. The clinical significance of this paper comprises of correlation ofvarious symptoms with older concepts like disorders in Manas may mean perceptual disturbances ordisturbances in Buddhi may translate to disturbances in executive functions.Conclusion: While a lot of mental healthcare professionals do have a lot of scepticism in being open to themythological concepts of human psychology, this paper emphasises that there was a certain observableand objective basis to these concepts exist, which can also be co-related with the modern-day concepts ofpsychology.
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Fibroid are benign common tumour in reproductive age group arises from smooth muscles cells of uterus. Incidence is about 30-50%, vary from sizes very small to big, may be one or multiple1. Fibroid usually presents with menorrhagia/menstrual irregularities, but Cervical Fibroid with amenorrhoea is very rare entity. Usually 30-40 % hysterectomy are done for fibroids. Degenerative changes can occur, hyaline is common, while in 0.5% Malignant changes may occur. While operating a huge tumour the anatomy gets disturbed , so due care for the surrounding structure is to be taken otherwise we may land up in complications. In these Huge cervical fibroid Abdominal hysterectomy was proceeded up to uterine vessels, then transverse incision was kept over the anterior vaginal wall of cervix after pushing the bladder down, & fibroid was held with myoma screw & enucleated. Then routine Hysterectomy was completed. Bilateral ureteric tracing done. So meticulous examinations with a suspicion is needed for diagnosis & management of such case.