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Effectiveness of Educational Package Regarding Knowledge of Somatic Symptom Disorders among Adolescent Girls- A Pre- Experimental Study Vishakha Rani; Raman Deep; Poonam Ahlawat
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 4 (2021): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
Publisher : Institute of Medico-legal Publications Pvt Ltd

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.37506/ijfmt.v15i4.17153

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Objective : This study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of educational package regardingknowledge of Somatic symptom disorders among adolescent girls.Methods : 75 adolescent girls were selected by using non probability convenient sampling technique. Thedata was collected by using a reliable and validated tool to assess the knowledge regarding Somatic symptomdisorders.Results : The quantitative assessment of knowledge regarding Somatic Symptom Disorders revealed thatafter administration of educational package, 56 (74.67%) adolescent girls had average knowledge and19 (25.33%) adolescent girls had adequate level of knowledge. There was significant difference betweenknowledge in pre testand post test after administration of educational package. Also, thepost test knowledgewas statistically associated with educational level of father of adolescent girls (0.043), educational level ofmother of adolescent girls (0.046) and occupation of mother of adolescent girls (0.003). The study revealedthat, the pretest mean score value of knowledge was 9.52 with standard deviation (SD) of 2.21 and thepost-test mean score value of knowledge was17.00 with SD of 4.01 with a mean difference of 7.48.Thecalculated-t value was 13.87. This indicated that there was a high statistical significant difference in the preand post test knowledge level regarding Somatic symptom disorders among adolescent girls, p value 0.05.Conclusion: Results of this research generates evidence that educational package regarding knowledge ofSomatic symptom disorders among adolescent girls was effective.
Assessment of Anxiety during COVID-19 Pandemic among General Population of India Anamika Gautam; Poonam Ahlawat; Shikha Sharma Thapa
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 15 No. 2 (2021): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.37506/ijfmt.v15i2.14271

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Introduction -The coronavirus COVID-19 illness makes a very unpredictable future the main psychologicaleffect is elevated rates of anxiety, because of pandemic and the lockdown.Aim -The aimed of the study was to Assess the level of anxiety during COVID-19 among general populationin India.Methodology -A Snowball sampling technique was used to collect the samples from different state andunion territory of India. Total 829 participants respond and enrolled themselves in the study. Participants inthe study belong to 27 states or union territories of India and majority of them are from Delhi.Result-Most of the Participant in the study was female (54%), graduate (51%), age between 18-28 (60%)and Hindu (89.3%). Half of the participant were having minimal anxiety (57.1%) nearly one fourth ofthe participant were having Mild anxiety (28.5%) and least number of participants were having Moderateanxiety (11.0%) and Severe anxiety (3.5%).There was no significant association of Anxiety scores withSocio-demographic variable except place of stay, suffering from any health problem and During lockdownperiod time spent in watching news related to corona (COVID-19) on mobile, laptop, television etc.Conclusion-The study concluded the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Cause anxietyamong the people. Understanding the risk to yourself and people you care about can make an outbreak lessadverse effect on mental and physical health of the people
Co-Authors Anamika Gautam Raman Deep Shikha Sharma Thapa Vishakha Rani