scholarly journals Integrative Approach to COVID-19: An Indian Facebook Recipe for Mental Health

2022 ◽  
pp. 097275312110529
Author(s):  
Akshay Anand ◽  
Rahul Tyagi ◽  
Radhika Khosla ◽  
Parul Bali ◽  
Manjari Rain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
New Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Post Graduate Institute

The COVID-19 pandemic has given the world a big blow and has forced the entire world to develop a new thought process. To cope with the stress of lockdown, it was important for people to indulge in educational and health activities to save them from the threats being caused by the news and social media. A Facebook page named Yoga scholars Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) was created where three sessions were held per day for 225 days regularly. This activity resulted in people adopting an integrative approach towards alternative medicine. This also made possible a trial of Ashwagandha for COVID-19 treatment by the Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) ministry.

scholarly journals Undergraduate Education in Psychiatry in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Roy Abraham Kallivayalil ◽  
Arun Enara
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Common Mental Disorders ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Treatment Gap ◽  
The World ◽  
Education In India

AbstractMedical education curricula, from around the world, have often neglected psychiatry as a subject of importance in undergraduate medical training.In India, the scenario has not been different from the rest of the world. The National Mental Health Survey done in India, recently, estimates a treatment gap of around 80–85% for various mental illnesses. This provides a strong case to strengthen the undergraduate psychiatry curricula since it would help tackle the treatment gap of common mental disorders in the community.Further, a strong educational foundation with meaningful inclusion of mental health and well-being, will also make the trainee aware of their own mental well-being and better help seeking behaviour in the medical student. In this article, we look to review the evolution of undergraduate medical education in India.

scholarly journals Traditional healers in East Africa

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Ndetei
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
The World

Since time immemorial, people from East Africa, and beyond, depended on traditional healers for treatment of all types of disorders, including those related to mental health. Even today, the use of traditional healers is common, despite the introduction of modern drugs. Alternative medicine is growing fast all over the world.

scholarly journals The Negative Impact of Social Media during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 495-507
Author(s):  
Astha Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Government ◽  
World Information

It has been observed that social media platforms have had both a positive and negative effect on how India has dealt with the COVID 19 pandemic. As the coronavirus took over the world, many took to social media to learn about how the virus spreads and what it is. Although this helped inform everyone on how to take precautions against this deadly virus, a lot of the information that users were reading was not verified or fact-checked and labeled as "fake news". In the modern world, information is spread very quickly through a variety of social media platforms. Because of this, there was widespread panic even before the COVID-19 virus had even reached India. Many citizens bought an excessive surplus of supplies such as masks, hand sanitizers, and food, which ultimately led to a shortage of these supplies for the 1.3 billion people in this country. The shortage of supplies along with the lockdown process which severely impacted the economy has led to an increase in price to the majority of essential products such as food, hand sanitizers, masks, etc. The most affected were the average day workers. Social media has caused widespread panic and hogging of essential supplies along with false facts of the virus itself, however, there are some things that we have benefited from due to social media. For example, social media has shown us the importance of social distancing and activities that we can do to keep our mental health in check while under lockdown. In short, I believe social media should be regulated and kept under watch by the government in certain aspects when it comes to spreading information about pandemics like covid19. If regulated properly we can avoid mass panic and anarchy and will be able to survive this pandemic as one.

scholarly journals Promoting Mental Wellbeing: Young Adults’ Experience on TikTok during the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Silas Udenze ◽  
Chinwe Elizabeth Uzochukwu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Effect

From the last quarter of 2019, the world witnessed the emergence of the COVID -19 virus that shook it to its knees, and Nigeria is not an exception. While countries were struggling with strategies on how to manage the virus, the lockdown option became paramount. During the period of the lockdown in Nigeria, most persons, especially young people, could not visit places of their choice. Hence, social media became their source of solace. This study examines the experiences of young adults in using TikTok to minimise the negative effect of isolation during the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria. The authors interviewed ten young persons between the ages of 19 to 31. A thematic analysis of the interviews using Braun and Clark (2006) steps for conducting thematic analysis revealed four overarching themes that describe the participants’ experiences on TikTok during the lockdown. Prominent among the themes, the study uncovered how TikTok short videos  excelled  in  impacting  the  research participants therapeutically;  easing  boredom,  and  impacting positively on their mental health. The present study suggests that TikTok short videos could be a phenomenon  that  could  be  adopted  by  individuals  or  even  health  professionals,  especially psychotherapists  in  managing  or  treating  patients  in  similar  situations  like  the  COVID-19 compulsory lockdown.

scholarly journals Sentiment analysis on twitter tweets about COVID-19 vaccines usi ng NLP and supervised KNN classification algorithm

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 463
Author(s):  
F. M. Javed Mehedi Shamrat ◽  
Sovon Chakraborty ◽  
M. M. Imran ◽  
Jannatun Naeem Muna ◽  
Md. Masum Billah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Classification Algorithm ◽  
The People ◽  
Knn Classification ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire World

The pandemic has taken the world by storm. Almost the entire world went into lockdown to save the people from the deadly COVID-19. Scientists around the around have come up with several vaccines for the virus. Amongthem, Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca have become quite famous. General people however have been expressing their feelings about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines on social media like Twitter. In this study, such tweets are being extracted from Twitter using a Twitter API authentication token. The raw tweets are stored and processed using NLP. The processed data is then classified using a supervised KNN classification algorithm. The algorithm classifies the data into three classes, positive, negative, and neutral. These classes refer to the sentiment of the general people whose Tweets are extracted for analysis. From the analysis it is seen that Pfizer shows 47.29%positive, 37.5% negative and 15.21% neutral, Moderna shows 46.16%positive, 40.71% negative, and 13.13% neutral, AstraZeneca shows 40.08%positive, 40.06% negative and 13.86% neutral sentiment.

scholarly journals Sentiment Analysis for the Detection of Sarcastic and Ironic Tweets

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 2377-2382
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Feature Engineering ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Positive Effect

This paper aims at detecting sarcasm and irony tweets based on the application of natural language processing and sentiment analysis. These days twitter has become most widely used social media. Most of the tweets generated affect people’s mental health and thought process. Even though many tweets have a positive effect a few of them are targeted towards people for bullying and hurting them. So it is necessary that we filter the tweets and identify the negative ones so that people may have a positive experience on this platform. In order to do this, this paper provides a methodology that helps in analyzing the sentiments behind the tweets and classify them into positive and negative tweets. Neural Network is used to achieve this. Feature engineering is applied on the dataset and then using Neural Network we try to get the result.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health of Under Graduate Students of Nadia District in West Bengal During Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Santu Biswas ◽  
Dibyendu Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
World Population ◽  
News Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Parts

The world is going through panic, fear, anxiety, stress, worry and isolation because of COVID 19 pandemic and lockdown. Almost one third of the world population is living under some kind of quarantine or lockdown. All these things affect the mental health of any individual a lot. At this time of social distancing and self-isolation, social media can be an indispensible tool for keeping you in touch with friends, online class, loved ones and the wider world. But be mindful of how it makes you feels. If spending time on social media enhance your stress, anxiety, and uncertainty, takes steps to limit your engagements. And always check reputable news sources before believing—or forwarding—any rumors about COVID-19 pandemic that may cause panic. In West Bengal, Government has declared that all educational institutes will remain closed till 10th June, 2020. Studies in different parts of the world stated that even in normal time, depression, anxiety, stress among under graduate college students are high. Several reasons are there. In this situation the researcher wanted to carry out the study to find out the condition of the Mental Health of the under Graduate Students of Nadia District in West Bengal during lockdown and how they are facing this pandemic situation.

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