Red Flower's Journal of Psychiatric Nursing

I t was a lazy forenoon of 29th January 2021 as the strong rays of the sun poured into my room from the east facing window that was kept ajar, I sat on my easy chair, happily sipping on my “Chai” with the daily newspaper tightly clenched in my left hand. Through the thick frame of my spectacles, my eyes were continuously trying to look for an interesting article to read. As they say, “expect the unexpected”, I came across an article that shook me in utter disbelief. A young mother who gave birth to a baby hardly few months ago, committed suicide. As per the news agency the lady was suffering from “post pregnancy depression Postpartum depression”. Instantly the psychologist within me kicked in and pointed out that prolonged and sustained form of depression often leads to the generation of suicidal tendencies in an individual.Depression is a serious mental illness which has many different shades and Post-partum depression is one of them. A woman experiences the bliss of motherhood upon giving birth to a baby, her own blood and flesh, finally gets physically separated from her body. However, in rare cases a negative feeling swallows this happiness and pushes the mother into a dungeon of darkness filled with depression. Precisely, for this reason, post-partum depression is aptly termed as “the thief that steals the joy of motherhood”. After the birth of the baby the mother experiences something commonly termed as “baby blues”. From the physiological perspective, it is a phase after the delivery of the baby in which the mother’s body undergoes hormonal readjustment. This phase often lasts for a couple of weeks and is marked with mood swings in the mother and it subsides without the need of any medical intervention. Nonetheless, in a few unfortunate cases, the problem lingers and manifests in to a bigger form of depression. There are basically three types of post-partum depression, namely: Baby blues (post-partum blues), Post-partum depression, and Post-partum Psychosis. Statistics indicate that out of every ten new mothers, post-partum blues turns into the ugly post-partum depression for one of them. The most apparent symptoms include irritation, anxiety, feeling of guilt, inability to care for baby or herself. Psychotherapy and usage of anti-depressants often prove to be handy in this scenario. However, if left untreated, it may lead to disastrous end of life by suicide in worst cases.

The aim of the study was to find out the effectiveness of music therapy on depression among depressive patient. the design used for this study was quasi experimental pre test post test with control group design. A purposive sample of 12 patients with depression was recruited for the study. Music therapy was administered to the patients. Zung depression rating scale was used to assess the level of depression before and after music therapy. The data was statistically analyzed to test the hypothesis. The result revealed that there was difference in the level of depression by identifying sign and symptoms before and after music therapy. Hence, the study concluded that the music therapy is found to be an effective therapy in reducing the level of depression. Keywords: Music Therapy; Depression; Zung depression rating scale; Patients.

Background: WHO has recommended personal hygiene respiratory hygiene, using face masks, washing hands with warm water and soap, use of alcohol based hand sanitizers, avoid touching mouth, eyes & nose, cleanliness, social distancing and careful handling of purchased products as an effective preventive measure for COVID-19 disease. The growing pandemic of COVID-19 disease requires social distancing and personal hygiene measures to protect public health. But this message was not clear and well understood among people specifically among young generation. The aim of this study was to determine the Awareness about prevention of COVID-19 among students studying in selected nursing colleges of Pune. Adults in the 20-49 years age group more likely to spread COVID 19: Adults are reportedly the only group still spreading the contagious virus. This was concluded after a study carried out by a team of researchers from Imperial College London using cell phone data from more than 10 million individuals of the USA. The findings revealed that adults between 20 to 49 years have been the only ones significantly responsible for the rising COVID cases. Out of 100, about 65 cases of infections were originated from those belonging to this age group. As per another study published in JAMA Network, over half of COVID-19 cases are likely caused by people without symptoms. It revealed that about 59 per cent of all transmission is caused by pre symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals.1 Method: A cross sectional study was performed during the third week of March among selected nursing college students. Sample size was 186. 10 structured online questionnaire MCQ type was used to obtain data. The demographic parameters were tabulated; Frequency Distribution and percentage were calculated for correct answers of MCQs. Associations were also checked for selected demographic variables of samples i.e. Gender with the help chi square test. Results: Total 186 samples selected for the study; 109 were females and 77 were males. All were graduate nursing students. Maximum score for each respondent was 10. Item analysis was done for each of the 10 structured questions. Mean score for the respondents was 8.31. Chi Square test used to find association between selected demographic variables of samples i.e. Gender and level of awareness.Conclusion: The Awareness about prevention of COVID-19 among participants was good. Mean score for the respondents was 8.31. Deficiencies in knowledge were noted incertain areas. Chi Square test suggested that there is no association between selected demographic variables of samples i.e. Gender and level of awareness about prevention of COVID-19. Keywords: COVID-19, Respiratory hygiene, Face masks, washing hands, Alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

Stress has been associated with every human life and is there to stay for all times to come. Right from birth every individual is undoubtedly exposed to various stressful situation. However, stress is not always bad. Some stress is always necessary to motivate and stimulate us.1 Hence, stress of certain level is very beneficial, stress is a fact of every human life and mostly experienced by the nursing professionals; it has become a great matter of concern for the employee of health organization. The individuals workingin the information nursing field face more stress because they have to update their knowledge continuously and care of the patients in every time.2 In present paper an attempt is made by the authors to understand the research gap in stress management in nurses.3 Thus, it’s necessary that the management of nurse field to take remedial measures to overcome the negative effects of stress on their staffs Keywords: Stress; Stressors; Types; Effect of Stress; Stress Coping Mechanism.

A pre-experimental research to assess the effectiveness of structure teaching module regarding knowledge on common respiratory disorders and its prevention identified the overall mean knowledge score of mothers of under five children during pre-test was 9.99 ± 5.52 (SD) which is 35.73% of the total mean score, whereas in post-test, the mean score was 22.23 ± 4.55 (SD) which is 76.17% of the total mean score revealing gain of 40.43% in knowledge score. Area wise assessments shows that during post-test mean score was above 67.2% of the total score in all areas, which reveals that mothers of under five children had gained adequate knowledge. It is observed that during pre-test the mothers of under five children had poor overall knowledge whereas it was good after the implementation of structured teaching module. Highly significant difference was found between pre-test and post-test knowledge score (P<0.05) and no association was found between post test knowledge scores of mothers of under five children when compared with selected demographic variables. Keywords: Under five children; Common respiratory disorder; Knowledge.