Widows in Manipur: A Mental Health Perspective (original) (raw)

2021, The International Journal of Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis

The aim of the study is to assess the symptomatology of PTSD and severity of depression among widowed women. 40 widowed women have been taken as sample for this study through random selection method. Symptoms of PTSD was measured using PCL-5 by National Center for PTSD, USA and for assessing the severity of depression, The Beck Depression Inventort-1A (BDI-1A) by Aaron T, Beck was used. Aim of the study was to know the levels of PTSD and Depression among the participants, in order to achieve this, percentage was used to show levels of variables. And the second phase of this study was to examine the association between variables i,e between the (PTSD and Depression). For this purpose, Pearson correlation was carried out. The findings of the first phase showed 100% of PTSD indicating that all the widowed women participated in this study have PTSD symptoms and also all the participants are found to have severe depression. And the study findings of the second phase showed that, among the widows, the symptoms of PTSD and symptoms of Depression were found to be positively correlated with a weak strength of association. (r = .25, p=.123)Widows who have more symptoms of PTSD also have high symptoms of Depression. The correlation is not statistically significant which shows there is no enough evidence to suggest the correlation observed exist.

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