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This study investigated explored the impct of abrogation of article 370, high speed internet ban after abrogation of article 370 on mental health of kasmiri research scholars. A cross sectional qualitative analytical method was used to analyze the status of mental health among research scholars of the valley who pursue Ph.D. in different universities of Kashmir valley from July 5, 2020 - November10, 2020, before one month, when India was about to celebrate first anniversary of article 370 abrogation and Kashmir was about to remember the as "Youmi siyaha" meaning "black day." Mental health screening was conducted using PHQ-9 for anxiety related symptoms and GAD-7 for depression related symptoms. A total of 215 research scholars responded to the mental health screening survey. Results show that the impact of communication blockage during and before COVID-19 pandemic for first six months and then ban on High speed internet, a total of 83.72% were of the view that they cannot access research databases or communicate research articles to journals and they cannot shift to online mode due to low speed internet connection. 11.62% were of the view that they understood that communication blackout is a security measure taken by India government to stop protests, while majority of the researchers 84.38% were not satisfied with ban on high speed internet or communication blackout as it is directly affecting day to day schedule and their research progress. This results in anxiety, hopelessness, and frustration as they were are not able to reach out to their peers or access research databases and will eventually lead to failure as they could not compete with other research scholars of country and their time will be wasted. 45% (98/215) were of the view that they have now lost interest in the research activities as worrying thoughts are coming in their minds. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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BACKGROUND: The current coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a global outbreak of a disease from a new coronavirus. Several databases have been published on this pandemic, but the research community still needs an easy way to get comprehensive information on COVID-19. OBJECTIVES: COVID-19 pandemic database (CO-19 PDB) aims to provide wonderful insights for COVID-19 researchers with the well-gathered of all the COVID-19 data to one platform, which is a global challenge for the research community these days. METHODS: We gathered 59 updated databases since December-2019 until May 2021 and divided them into six categories: digital image database, genomic database, literature database, visualization tools database, chemical structure database, and social science database. These categories focus on taking number of functions from the images, information from gene sequences, updates from relevant papers, essays, reports, articles, and books, the data or information in the form of maps, graphs, and charts, information of bonds between atoms, and updates about events of the physical and social environment, respectively. RESULTS: Users can search the information of interest in two ways including typing the name of the database in the search bar or by clicking the right category directly. Computer languages such as CSS, PHP, HTML, Java, etc. are utilized to construct CO-19 PDB. CONCLUSION: This article attempts to compile up-to-date appropriate COVID-19 datasets and resources that have not been compiled and given in such an accessible and user-friendly manner. As a result, the CO-19 PDB offers extensive open data sharing for both worldwide research communities and local people. Further, we have planned future development of new features, that will be awesome for future study.