Red Flower's Journal of Psychiatric Nursing

Introduction: Quantitative approach was used with pre-experimental one group pre-test post- test design. The structured teaching program regarding substance abuse and its prevention among late adolescence non-medical under graduate students at selected college of surat. The study was conducted at Industrial training institute, Majura gate, Surat. The sample of 60 ITI students were selected though non probability convenient sampling technique. A structured knowledge questionnaire was prepared to assess the knowledge of sample. Content validity of the developed tools and structured teaching program was established by 5 expert and necessary modification were made as suggested by them. Reliability of the tool was ascertained by karl pearson’s coefficient correlation method. The mean pre-test score was 9.95 and mean post-test knowledge  core was 17.13. significant of the difference between pre-test and post-test was statistically tested using paired ‘t’ test and it was found significant at 0.05 level. There was significant increase in the knowledge of the sample after administration of the structured teaching program regarding substance abuse and its prevention among late adolescent non-medical under graduate students. Hence it is concluded that structured teaching program was effective in improving the knowledge of the students.

Introduction: Soft skill are individual attributes which is essential for establishing good communication and interpersonal relationship within the organizations. This can be understood as personal characteristics, own opinion or attitude and individual qualities. Lack of these soft skill create a gap in nursing care with effective nursing care or holistic nursing care. Active listening and therapeutic touch are important aspect of soft skill.

Method: The present study adopted Evaluating research approach. One group pre-test and post-test design was used to assess the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Module for Staff Nurses regarding knowledge of soft skill. In the study the sample comprised of 63 staff Nurses Betul was fulfilling the inclusive criteria. Convenient sampling technique was used to select the sample.

Result: The data presented show that out of 63 subjects’ majority 23 (36.50%) staff nurses belonged to age group of 31-40 years, whereas majority 50 (79.36%) were females, highest percentage 33 (52.38%) of staff nurses are B.Sc. Nursing, Majority 28 (44.44%) staff nurses having 5-10 years of experience and majority 56 (89%) had no additional qualification regarding soft skill apart from their nursing program. The data depicts that the obtained t value was 15.00 and p value 0.001. Hence H1 was accepted and it is interpreted that knowledge of staff nurses regarding Soft Skill has significantly improved compared to pre-test.

Yoga has been used for millennia as a tool for achieving mental health. Recent research has also shown significant benefits one motional instability, social maladjustment, personality disintegration, lack of independence and total emotional maturity after two months of yogapreksha meditation in college going girls. A prospective study was conducted in 100 college going girls with the age range between 17-19 years. The samples were randomized into experimental and non-experimental group (n=50) each; (experimental group average age ± S.D., 18.22 ± 0.86 years), (non-experimental group average age ± S.D., 18.30 ± 0.76 years). Emotional maturity was measured using an Emotional Maturity Scale (EMS) constructed by Dr. Yashvir Singh & Dr. Mahesh Bhargava. Experimental group practiced yoga-preksha meditation for 50 minutes for six days in a week for two months and non-experimental group participants were performing their routine activities. Experimental group and non-experimental groups were analyzed using the within group paired t-test and between group unpaired t-test. There was one within-subject factor i.e., pre and post and one between-subject factor i.e., post and post for the statistical analysis. Following yoga-preksha meditation there was a significant decrease in the scores of emotion maturity (emotional unstability; p<0.001, social maladjustment; p<0.001, personality disintegration; p<0.01, lack of independence; p<0.05 and total emotional maturity; p<0.001).Emotional experimental group. No changes were seen in non-experimental group. It can be concluded that yoga-preksha meditation can reduce the problems of imbalance emotional quanta in the daily life of the college going girls.

Previous studies suggest that excess use of digital devices causes visual discomfort where as yoga has been shown to be useful in reduction of visual discomfort. Earlier studies have not shown the effect of yoga on children using digital devices. With this background, the present study was planned to determine the effect of yoga on visual discomfort among children attending online classes during COVID- 19 pandemic. Twenty children of both sexes and their ages ranged between 8 to 14 years were included in the study. All the participants divided into two groups: (i) Yoga group (YG) and (ii) Control group (CG). The participants were screened to exclude those who (i) had any clinical condition such as Sjögren's syndrome or kerato-conjunctivitis sicca and (ii) Used medication for drying of the eyes. None of the participant had to be excluded based on these criteria. Both group were assessed before and after twenty one days of yoga intervention and visual discomfort were measured using computer vision syndrome questionnaire. The scores of both the groups were comparable at baseline, after twenty one days there was a significantly decreased score in the YG group, whereas the CG showed significantly increased scores. The results suggest that the yoga practice appeared to reduce visual discomfort, while the group who had no yoga intervention (CG) showed an increase in discomfort at the end of twenty one days.