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ABSTRACT Introduction: No one is born with emotional maturity; it is shaped by our upbringing and... more ABSTRACT Introduction: No one is born with emotional maturity; it is shaped by our upbringing and life experience. A hallmark of it is maintaining self management during times of stress. Counselling is the intervention which is needed for the professional students to overcome the problems such as anxiety, fear of future, hopelessness and adjustment issues to lead a life fruitfully. Aims: Are to find the prevalence of emotional maturity level among professional students and to determine the effectiveness of counselling on emotional maturity from the selected professional institutions. And to find the association between emotional maturity with selected demographic variables. Materials and methods: A descriptive, true experimental research design with an evaluative research approach was adopted. The data was collected through Singh and Bargave’s Emotional Maturity Scale and demographic proforma. Intervention was given for 8 consecutive weeks to the students who were identified with av...
ABSTRACT: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder and caregivers’ role plays vital in all aspe... more ABSTRACT: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder and caregivers’ role plays vital in all aspects of concern. When they gain knowledge, positive attitude and skill in taking care, can prevent the relapse of the patient and prevent distress of the caregivers. Innovative educational programs can make a valuable contribution. Videotapes can be effective teaching tools for patients and caregivers by facilitating knowledge acquisition, reducing anxiety, improving coping skills, and enhancing self care behaviors. They are valuable resources for assistance in educating patients and caregivers in today's changing health care environment. They incorporate visual and auditory information into a teaching modality that is often easy for individuals to understand and retain. This paper attempts to explain the development process of VATM. The development of a new and promising resource (VATM) for primary caregivers on home care of schizophrenic patients is detailed in this article. This pa...
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2014
behaviors seen among them. [3] In India, a majority of them are cared for by family members. Thes... more behaviors seen among them. [3] In India, a majority of them are cared for by family members. These caregivers face grief and emotional hardship and are frequently forced to assume lifelong care taking roles. [4] Some of the caregivers eventually develop a negative attitude towards caring for them. Attitudes are individually attributed emotions, beliefs, and behavioral tendencies an individual has towards a specific
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2014
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that elicits feelings of strangeness and discomfort, wh... more Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that elicits feelings of strangeness and discomfort, which may create stigma and lead to the social exclusion of the mentally ill and of the people relating with them. In the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of research studies on attitudes toward mental disorders. An instrument was developed to assess the attitude of primary caregivers on home care of schizophrenics. This article describes the development of a Likert scale, the Caregivers Attitude Scale on Home Care of Schizophrenics CASHS, which is a 31-item self-reported instrument that quantifies three aspects of home care, that is, attitude towards patient, towards treatment, and towards social interaction. The steps involved in its development are the review of literature, development of items, content validation, translation and language validity, pretesting, and reliability. After establishing the content validity, the CASHS was pretested with five subjects. To establish the reliability of the CASHS, 21 primary caregivers were recruited through purposive sampling technique. In order to measure the stability between scores obtained, a test-retest reliability was computed using Karl Pearson correlation coefficient and the r value was 0.78. The internal consistency was measured using Cronbach's alpha and item-total correlation and the r value was 0.789. The item discrimination analysis was also computed and the value was of above 0.35. These statistical measurements indicate that the CASHS was reliable. The CASHS is a valid and reliable tool that can be utilized for assessing the attitude of primary caregivers on home care of schizophrenics.
ABSTRACT Introduction: No one is born with emotional maturity; it is shaped by our upbringing and... more ABSTRACT Introduction: No one is born with emotional maturity; it is shaped by our upbringing and life experience. A hallmark of it is maintaining self management during times of stress. Counselling is the intervention which is needed for the professional students to overcome the problems such as anxiety, fear of future, hopelessness and adjustment issues to lead a life fruitfully. Aims: Are to find the prevalence of emotional maturity level among professional students and to determine the effectiveness of counselling on emotional maturity from the selected professional institutions. And to find the association between emotional maturity with selected demographic variables. Materials and methods: A descriptive, true experimental research design with an evaluative research approach was adopted. The data was collected through Singh and Bargave’s Emotional Maturity Scale and demographic proforma. Intervention was given for 8 consecutive weeks to the students who were identified with av...
ABSTRACT: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder and caregivers’ role plays vital in all aspe... more ABSTRACT: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder and caregivers’ role plays vital in all aspects of concern. When they gain knowledge, positive attitude and skill in taking care, can prevent the relapse of the patient and prevent distress of the caregivers. Innovative educational programs can make a valuable contribution. Videotapes can be effective teaching tools for patients and caregivers by facilitating knowledge acquisition, reducing anxiety, improving coping skills, and enhancing self care behaviors. They are valuable resources for assistance in educating patients and caregivers in today's changing health care environment. They incorporate visual and auditory information into a teaching modality that is often easy for individuals to understand and retain. This paper attempts to explain the development process of VATM. The development of a new and promising resource (VATM) for primary caregivers on home care of schizophrenic patients is detailed in this article. This pa...
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2014
behaviors seen among them. [3] In India, a majority of them are cared for by family members. Thes... more behaviors seen among them. [3] In India, a majority of them are cared for by family members. These caregivers face grief and emotional hardship and are frequently forced to assume lifelong care taking roles. [4] Some of the caregivers eventually develop a negative attitude towards caring for them. Attitudes are individually attributed emotions, beliefs, and behavioral tendencies an individual has towards a specific
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2014
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that elicits feelings of strangeness and discomfort, wh... more Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that elicits feelings of strangeness and discomfort, which may create stigma and lead to the social exclusion of the mentally ill and of the people relating with them. In the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of research studies on attitudes toward mental disorders. An instrument was developed to assess the attitude of primary caregivers on home care of schizophrenics. This article describes the development of a Likert scale, the Caregivers Attitude Scale on Home Care of Schizophrenics CASHS, which is a 31-item self-reported instrument that quantifies three aspects of home care, that is, attitude towards patient, towards treatment, and towards social interaction. The steps involved in its development are the review of literature, development of items, content validation, translation and language validity, pretesting, and reliability. After establishing the content validity, the CASHS was pretested with five subjects. To establish the reliability of the CASHS, 21 primary caregivers were recruited through purposive sampling technique. In order to measure the stability between scores obtained, a test-retest reliability was computed using Karl Pearson correlation coefficient and the r value was 0.78. The internal consistency was measured using Cronbach's alpha and item-total correlation and the r value was 0.789. The item discrimination analysis was also computed and the value was of above 0.35. These statistical measurements indicate that the CASHS was reliable. The CASHS is a valid and reliable tool that can be utilized for assessing the attitude of primary caregivers on home care of schizophrenics.