Resilience and Coping Strategies in Undergraduate Medical Students in India | Chapter 3 | Current Innovations in Disease and Health Research Vol. 4

 This affiliate investigated to assess the elasticity and coping abilities in MBBS students and to find the correlation 'tween them. Resilience is an essential facet of wellbeing that plays a major act in undergraduate healing education. Various personal and public factors are known to influence resilience. Empirical evidence debris limited regarding elasticity and the personal determinants that affect it among student medical juniors in an Asian setting. M.B.B.S. (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) is a challenging ending for personal, academic & professional growth of a junior.We conducted this cross divided study with 250 M.B.B.S. students in a healing college acknowledged for undergraduate and post-graduate studies. The undergraduate educational program of M.B.B.S. (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) under the medical academy includes 4.5 years of education and one year of capable of rotating internship. Statistical study was done using mean, predictable difference, chi square test, t test, Pearson’s equivalence, regression analysis and ANOVA unspecified area needed.Out of 250 members 43.2 % mentioned that they study 11-20 hours per week, 28.4% were learning <10 hours/week whereas 20% pronounced they study for 21-30 hours/week. 39.2% of the players spent 41-50 hours/week in asleep, 26.8% were sleeping for 31-40 hours/period whereas 16% were sleeping for just inferior 30 hours/week. Mean resilience score was 5.02 accompanying no significant common differences. First and second year graduates as well as interns succeed far higher on resilience. Students the one scored taller on the resilience scale used question solving as a primary contending mechanism. Participants the one had strong bonds with their kin, friends, and educators exhibited a higher level of flexibility.   Additionally, medical undergraduates need assistance in skill growth.  Goal-setting, time administration, work-life balance, ingenious study techniques, communication abilities, relationship administration, and reflection skills are few of the strategies that maybe designed. Solving problems bearing better relationships with society, and having less academic stress all have a advantageous impact on resilience. Emotion-located coping, uncovering to stressful situations, the need for more opportunity to recuperate, enslavement, and increased academic stress all have a negative impact on it.

Author(s) Details:

Abhijeet Faye,
Department of Psychiatry, Datta Meghe Medical College and Shalinitai Meghe Hospital and Research Center, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

Rahul Tadke,
Department of Psychiatry, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

Sushil Gawande,
Department of Psychiatry, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

Vivek Kirpekar,
Department of Psychiatry, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

Sudhir Bhave,
Department of Psychiatry, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

Abhijit Pakhare,
Department of Preventive & Social Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Deepika Singh,
Department of Psychiatry, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

Jeet Nadpara,
Department of Psychiatry, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

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Coping with Demanding Situations, Social Intelligence and Personality of a Manager | Book Publisher International

The presented monograph aims to enrich knowledge and contribute both theoretically and methodologically to solving the issues of predicting the management of demanding situations in the context of managerial work. The project of the research part of the monograph is oriented towards specifying the links between social intelligence, personality traits and ways of coping with demanding situations in managerial work. In the context of identification of the predictors of successful managerial behavior, the monograph offers measures relating to the selection of people for managerial positions as well as their further preparation and training.

Author(s) Details:

Daniel Lajcin,
Department of Management and Economics, DTI University, Dubnica and Vahom, Slovakia.

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Psychosocial Impact of Lockdown Due to Novel Corona Virus COVID-19 among Medical Undergraduate Students | Chapter 12 | Research Highlights in Disease and Health Research Vol. 4

 The onset of Novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) which begun in the late 2019, in Wuhan in Hubei province of China by way of its extreme infectivity and fatality rate, had a extensive psychosocial impact on community. This was evidenced as bulk agitation, economic burden and economic losses. Mass fear of COVID-19, described as “Coronaphobia”, had generated a excess of psychiatric proofs across different layer of the society.As a result, this study was transported to define the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on Medical graduates accompanying the goal of evaluating the reasons for breaking the lockdown and the level of psychosocial impact of confinement in isolation on Medical graduates during the COVID-19 confinement in isolation period.  A cross-divided prospective study was attended on 285 MBBS students from first to last period. Data was collected utilizing the Validated Psychosocial Impact Scale.  The outcomes explained the severity of the negative belongings of lockdown on the healing college pupils. 18.60% of students reacted normally to the COVID 19 universal lockdown position. Students in 47.72% showed a likely negative effect from lockdown. No scholar was found expected in the range of a severe negative impact of confinement in isolation, while 29.12 juniors had a mild negative impact and 4.56% had a moderate negative impact.

Author(s) Details:

Rupali Sarode,
Students Guidance Clinic, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi (M), Wardha- 442004, Maharashtra, India.

Prakash Mohite,
Department of Forensic Medicine, Datta Meghe Medical College, Wanadongri, Nagpur- 441110, Maharashtra, India.

Sourya Acharya,
Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi (M), Wardha- 442004, Maharashtra, India.

Samarth Shukla,
Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Wardha-442004, Maharashtra, India.

Shashank Gotarkar,
Department of Community Medicine, Datta Meghe Medical College, Wanadongri, Nagpur- 441110, Maharashtra, India.

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Evaluating the Coping Strategies among People Living with HIV/AIDS in Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Kaduna State, Nigeria | Chapter 3 | Research Highlights in Disease and Health Research Vol. 2

 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is individual of the most difficult and bewildering social challenges met by contemporary institutions because of its powerful links to sexual and social stigmatised behaviour. The purpose of this study search out evaluate the coping blueprints among community living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Kaduna central lawmaking district, Nigeria. The study was a transection descriptive design. The mechanism used was Brief COPE (Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced). Problem-focused managing strategies aim to correct or eliminate the causes of stress while affection-focused coping methods are meant to manage with the affective belongings of the hassle. Using a multi-stage sampling method, a sample of 407 participants the one attended antiretroviral clinics was captured from four general nursing homes within the district. The mark population of 10,321 cases served as the action for calculating the sample size. The study's key judgments showed that PLWHA use the question-focused coping method appropriately, accompanying an overall mean of 2.61, and that most of bureaucracy have been acting to try to improve the position. The PLWHA also use the affection focus coping approach appropriately, with an overall average of 2.65, and the plurality of them have taken emotional support from others. However, the use of preventing coping plan was the most low, with an overall mean of 2.82, and the majority of ruling class blamed themselves for the condition. The study told that problem and emotion focus were sufficiently used, while eluding strategy was thickly used. It was therefore urged that health laborers use a variety of methods to experience the PLWHA, particularly on hospital days, on how to use question-focused coping blueprints in order to develop their quality of life.

Author(s) Details:

Ephraim Obadiah Dyages,
Kaduna State College of Nursing and Midwifery, Kafanchan Campus, Nigeria.

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COVID 19 – Omicron Variant and Emotional Health| Chapter 1 | Emerging Trends in Disease and Health Research Vol.4.

 The coronavirus disease epidemic of 2019 (COVID-19) could be stressful for individuals and communities. COVID 19 inspired people to pursue the road of psychiatric emergency as a means of keeping people emotionally unstable through a variety of variants. People's emotional health is harmed as a result of this. COVID 19, then Delta, and now Omicron variant have all propagated the pandemic.

Stress is unavoidable in one's existence. It has an impact on both bodily and emotional states when you're dealing with it. There are both environmental and internal variables that might cause stress. Managing stress entails learning how to adjust to both the environmental and internal factors that affect one's ability to manage stress. Stress management aids in coping with stress and leading a healthy lifestyle.

 

Author(s) Details:

K. Jayanthi,
Department of Mental Health Nursing, Indirani College of Nursing, Puducherry, India.

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Health Initiatives Vitalize | Chapter 7 | Issues and Development in Health Research Vol. 3

 This chapter examines HIV/AIDS surveillance activities carried out by state and local health departments in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. The first goal is a historical analysis that focuses on the expansion of HIV Surveillance Reports, which have served as the primary source of information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of HIV/AIDS in the United States and its eight independent areas for the past four decades. A second goal is to examine the role of state health departments in active surveillance, which helps to ensure that HIV/AIDS data in HIV Surveillance Reports is accurate and functioning. Bletzer [1] is expanded and improved in this chapter.

Author (S) Details

Keith V. Bletzer
Adjunct Faculty, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

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Description of Psychological Distress and Coping Style in HIV-infected Patients | Chapter 6 | Issues and Development in Health Research Vol. 3

 Background: The progression of HIV infection is associated with a considerable degree of mental anguish. The researchers wanted to see if there was a link between psychological distress, depression, coping style, and immune activity in HIV patients.

The goal of this study was to examine current understandings of depression and psychological distress among HIV-positive people in West Romania.

The study enlisted the participation of 110 HIV-positive people from Timisoara's Clinic of Infectious Diseases. The Beck depression inventory (BDI), the perceived stress scale (PSS), and the brief orienting to the problems experienced (Brief- COPE) scale were all used in each patient's self-report. Immune activation was measured using CD4 cell counts and viral load (VL).

The findings revealed that 26% of research participants had BDI scores suggesting moderate depression, whereas 3% had severe depression. Furthermore, PSS values of more than 10 were seen in 24.5 percent of the patients. Lower CD4 cell counts (r = 0.275, p0.004) and higher VL (r = 0.211, p 0.027) were associated with higher degrees of sadness. CD4 had a negative association with self-blaming, but VL had a positive relationship with behavioural disengagement.

Conclusion: Increased depression, in combination with higher levels of perceived psychological distress, leads to maladaptive coping strategies that are connected to HIV infection progression.

Author (S) Details

Iosif Marincu
Department of Infectious Diseases, Pneumology and Parasitology, “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Methodological and Infectious Diseases Research Center, Romania.

Iulia Vidican
Department of Infectious Diseases, Pneumology and Parasitology, “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Methodological and Infectious Diseases Research Center, Romania.

Felix Bratosin
Department of Infectious Diseases, Pneumology and Parasitology, “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Methodological and Infectious Diseases Research Center, Romania.

Oana Suciu
Department of Infectious Diseases, Pneumology and Parasitology, “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Methodological and Infectious Diseases Research Center, Romania.

Livius Tirnea
Department of Infectious Diseases, Pneumology and Parasitology, “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Methodological and Infectious Diseases Research Center, Romania.

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An Explorative Study of South African Women’s Experiences: Coping with Infertility | Chapter 10 | Highlights on Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 10

 The expectation of marrying and having children is a natural element of adult life for many people. Many young people look forward to becoming biological mothers and fathers. Individuals and couples are socially groomed to strive to this social ideal, which leads to this expectation of parenthood. For many men and women who strive to comply to these socio-cultural conventions of normative motherhood and who believe that childbirth is vital to their life, infertility can be a highly stressful and tormented experience. Medically, infertility is defined as the inability to conceive after at least twelve months of regular sexual contact without the use of contraception. Both men and women may experience feelings of inadequacy, failure, and incompleteness as a result of infertility. Infertile women, on the other hand, experience a wide range of emotional losses as a result of their inability to have children, as well as a great deal of anguish and anguish. This study looked into the experiences of a group of South African women who were dealing with infertility. A varied group of 21 married women diagnosed with primary infertility were recruited using a qualitative methodology. Individual interviews were done in a semi-structured, in-depth format, and the material was analysed using theme analysis. According to the findings of the study, the women experienced emotional upheaval characterised by disappointment and astonishment, rage and irritation, a deep sense of sadness, and finally a sense of acknowledgment that a problem existed. Infertility is associated with high psychological and emotional stress, according to the findings of this study. Social withdrawal and women separating themselves from social activities and social gatherings, avoiding pregnant women and women with children, and participating in escapism tactics on both a psychological and physical level were among the coping mechanisms used by these women in the study. On a psychological level, using an escapism approach might entail thinking about ways to avoid thinking about infertility, pregnancy, or babies. On a physical level, escapism includes behaviours like as shopping, working longer hours, sleeping more than normal, and engaging in activities that occupy a person to the point where they cannot think about anything else than the activities they are currently involved in. Infertility is a difficult journey, and living with it necessitates a strong feeling of resilience on the part of the infertile spouse, as well as the presence of solid social support that is supportive rather than overbearing.

Author(s) Details

Athena Pedro
Psychology Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.

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Identity and Well-Being of Bulgarian Adolescents and Adults: Summarized Data for the Period 2002- 2018 | Chapter 9 | New Horizons in Education and Social Studies Vol. 3

 

Aim: Featuring identity and well-being of Bulgarian adolescents and adults and their preferred
adaptation pathways.
Study Design: Comparison of the results from two cross-sectional studies, completed in 2008 and
2018 with 703 Bulgarian volunteers in total, aged 18-60. The focus is the analysis of the adaptive
response to the experienced environment – as stable or unstable, supportive or restrictive.
Results: The general results reveal that there is no change in the distribution of the identity statuses
for a period, lasting more than a decade. Most of the volunteers prefer to postpone their stable
commitments and proceed to attain and reorganize their identity. Furthermore, this is not a result of
inner choice, but mainly adaptive response to the requirements and the restrictions of the context.
Environment, perceived as unstable and preventing strong commitments results in identity choices
postponement as most adaptive person-context transaction. The uncompleted transition period
promotes transitive identity statuses, postponement of stable commitments and continuous
exploration. For adolescence coherent to age development, more adaptive is active exploration,
whereas for adults adaptive is to support previous commitments, as they used to be beneficial in the
past.
Conclusion: When context is perceived as insecure and not supportive, this results in search for new
commitments or identity reorganization and perceived stress. In this sense, the main accent on
individual level is the adaptive feature of the identity statuses and coping strategies and their relations. Support for self-integration through the three steps of identity - self-knowledge, self-acceptance and self-expression - can facilitate identity reorganization. This is related to stress management as well. If person fails to employ enough adaptive strategies of reactive and proactive coping consecutively and coherently, the basic sense of self-authenticity and self-integration is compromised. The main conclusion is that promotion of self-reflection and successful reactive responses can transform into proactive behaviour and become a component of the optimal identity. This overall process can be learnt and implemented as a cognitive, emotional and behavioral mindfulness, based on self-reflection and active coping.

Author (s) Details

Margarita Bakracheva
Sofia University St. Klimеnt Ohridski, Bulgaria.

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