scholarly journals Psychoastrotherapeutic Effect on Pathological Gamblers and their Follow-up

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vandana Sharma ◽  
M.G. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
T Test ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Pathological Gamblers ◽  
Test Of Significance ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Indian Adaptation

The present study examines the effectiveness of psych-astrotherapy on pathological gamblers.75-Pre-treated and 75Post-treated pathological gamblers were evaluated at S. I. Mental and Physical Health Society (SIMPHS) Varanasi district in India. These groups were matched on age (range 19 to 44years with a mean age of 29.6 years and they had gambled for an average of 12.5 years with a mean length of uncontrollable gambling of 9.7 years). Indian adaptation of T.A.T. (Seven cards) 1, 3B, 4, 6BM, 7BM, 13MF was used to ascertain personality characteristics on the four selected dimensions viz: need, press, interpersonal relations and outcome. Mean scores obtained on different variables were analyzed using t-test of significance. Results indicated that the characteristics associated with Post- treated pathological gamblers were cognizance, dominance, autonomy, achievement, counteraction, affiliation, sex capacity, interpersonal relations and outcome whereas the characteristics associated with Pre-treated pathological gamblers were aggression, rejection, passivity, acquisition, and press.

scholarly journals Psychoastrotherapy for Phobic Patients

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Sharma ◽  
Vandana Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
T Test ◽  
Middlesex Hospital ◽  
Test Of Significance ◽  
Age Range

The present study aimed at ascertaining the effect of psychoastrotherapy (psychotherapy and astrotherapy) on phobic patients. Hundred (100) phobic patients were consisted for this study out of these 50 treated and 50 non-treated patients were evaluated at S. I. Mental & Physical Health Society (SIMPHS) Varanasi (India). The two groups were matched on age range of13 to 25 years with a mean age of 15.27 years and their mean length of abnormal fear was 3.5 years. Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (M.H.Q.) was administered to ascertain mental health on six selected variables viz: free floating anxiety, obsession, phobia, somatization, depression and hysteria. Mean scores obtained on different variables were analyzed using t-test of significance. Results indicate that the characteristics associated with non-treated phobic patients were free floating anxiety, obsession, phobia, depression and hysteria and the characteristics associated with treated phobic patients is somatization. Fifty patients were treated for six months and they were requested to attend centre for six months of follow-up. After six months of follow-up only thirty six patients were reported that they did not feel any kind of phobic symptoms

scholarly journals Mental Health Intervention of Migraine Patients by Psychotherapy

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Sharma ◽  
Awadhes Upadhyay ◽  
Vandana Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Health Intervention ◽  
T Test ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Mental Health Intervention ◽  
Middlesex Hospital ◽  
Test Of Significance ◽  
Age Range

The present study attempts to examine the effect of Psychotherapy on migraine patients. 100 patients were consisted for this study out of these 50- treated and 50 non-treated patients were evaluated at S .I. Mental & Physical Health Society (SIMPHS), Varanasi (India). The two groups were matched on age range from 22 to 55 years with a mean age of 38.4 years and mean length of intolerable pain of 5.8 years. Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (M H Q) was administered to ascertain personality characteristics on six selected variables viz: Anxiety, obsession, phobia, somatization, depression, and hysteria. Mean scores obtained on different variables were analyzed using t-test of significance. Results indicated that the characteristics associated with treated migraine patients were anxiety, obsession, phobia, depression and hysteria whereas the characteristics associated with non-treated migraine patients is somatization.

scholarly journals Treatment of Drug Addicts by Psychoastrotherapy

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Sharma ◽  
Vandana Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Drug Addicts ◽  
Middlesex Hospital ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

The aim of the present study ascertaining the personality characteristics of treated and non-treated drug addicts, using Hindi version of the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire and Death Anxiety Scale. 100 subjects were taken for this study out of this 50 treated and 50 non-treated drug addicts were evaluated at S.I. Mental and Physical Health Society “SIMPHS”, Varanasi, district in India. Psycho-astrotherapy was given to those groups who attend the Centre for treatment. These groups were matched on the variables of age range 18-35 years with a mean age of 21.01 years. Addiction period ranged from two year to six years. The finding reveals that characteristics associated with non-treated drug addicts are anxiety, obsession, phobia, somatization, depression and hysteria, and death anxiety.

scholarly journals The interrelation of sleep and mental and physical health is anchored in grey-matter neuroanatomy and under genetic control

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masoud Tahmasian ◽  
Fateme Samea ◽  
Habibolah Khazaie ◽  
Mojtaba Zarei ◽  
Shahrzad Kharabian Masouleh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Grey Matter ◽  
Well Being ◽  
System Level ◽  
Sleep Habits ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Shared Genetic

AbstractHumans need about seven to nine hours of sleep per night. Sleep habits are heritable, associated with brain function and structure, and intrinsically related to well-being, mental, and physical health. However, the biological basis of the interplay of sleep and health is incompletely understood. Here we show, by combining neuroimaging and behavioral genetic approaches in two independent large-scale datasets (HCP (n = 1106), age range: 22–37, eNKI (n = 783), age range: 12–85), that sleep, mental, and physical health have a shared neurobiological basis in grey matter anatomy; and that these relationships are driven by shared genetic factors. Though local associations between sleep and cortical thickness were inconsistent across samples, we identified two robust latent components, highlighting the multivariate interdigitation of sleep, intelligence, BMI, depression, and macroscale cortical structure. Our observations provide a system-level perspective on the interrelation of sleep, mental, and physical conditions, anchored in grey-matter neuroanatomy.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and Mental Stress among the Urban Youths of Dhaka City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Farheen Khan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Dhaka City ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed threats on both physical and mental health since its outbreak. This paper aims to highlight the mental and physical health challenges amongst the home-quarantined youths of Dhaka city. A total of 150 young adults were surveyed, within the age range of (12-30). The participation was voluntary and was completed online.The findings suggest, many youngsters are currently suffering a wide range of mental health issues related to anxiety, fear, isolation, depression, feeling lonely, emotional outburst, insomnia, and other sleeping/ eating habit disturbances during COVID 19 pandemic. Many are emotionally vulnerable after losing their close ones, losing jobs, uncertain education or by staying indoors for months. Many get agitated wearing protective gear like masks or using sanitizers. The panic caused by the infection from physical proximity has reached such a level that everything now is shifted from physically going out to virtual conferences and many other significant shifts in people's behavior. But, in spite of all the trauma and negative affects the pandemic has put us through, there is some hope that the new focus on mental health issues may reduce stigma and increase availability of support services. Finally the paper recommends some way forward for effective mitigation against the harmful effects of limited or indoor physical activity on mental and physical health due to social distancing and quarantine based on the collected data.

scholarly journals MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH SEQUELAE OF BEREAVEMENT IN OLDER ADULTS: U.S. HEATH AND RETIREMENT STUDY ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S348-S348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Domingue ◽  
Laramie Duncan ◽  
Amal Harrati ◽  
Daniel Belsky
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Physical Health Outcomes ◽  
Repeated Measures Data ◽  
Data Tracking ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Health And Mortality ◽  
Retirement Study

Abstract Death of a spouse (bereavement) is associated with poor mental and physical health outcomes in older adults. But it is unknown how mental- and physical-health sequelae of bereavement are related and the clinical significance of bereavement-related depression has been questioned. We analyzed US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data tracking mental and physical health of 36,034 older adults during 1992-2016. Post-bereavement data were available for N=4,985 participants with recorded date of spousal death. We analyzed longitudinal repeated-measures data on survivors’ depression, disease, disability, and mortality. Bereavement effects on depression were immediate, but short-lived, attenuating within the year. In contrast, bereavement effects on physical health and mortality persisted over follow-up. Critically, the magnitude of short-lived effects on depression correlated with the magnitude of longer-lasting effects on disease, disability, and mortality. Results reveal connections between mental and physical health and aging and suggest bereavement-related depression as a biomarker of enduring health risk.

Associations of Work-Related Factors and Work Engagement with Mental and Physical Health: A 1-Year Follow-up Study Among Older Workers

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fenna R. M. Leijten ◽  
Swenne G. van den Heuvel ◽  
Allard J. van der Beek ◽  
Jan Fekke Ybema ◽  
Suzan J. W. Robroek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

scholarly journals Is Exercise the Best Medicine during a COVID-19 Pandemic? Comment on Constandt, B.; Thibaut, E.; De Bosscher, V.; Scheerder, J.; Ricour, M.; Willem, A. Exercising in Times of Lockdown: An Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 on Levels and Patterns of Exercise among Adults in Belgium. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 4144

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (16) ◽  
pp. 5730
Author(s):  
Tamara Hew-Butler ◽  
Valerie Smith-Hale ◽  
Matthew Van Sumeren ◽  
Jordan Sabourin ◽  
Phillip Levy
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Regular Physical Activity ◽  
Intense Exercise ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Highly Active ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

From Constandt et al.’s survey of 13,515 Belgium respondents, regular physical activity can be successfully initiated and sustained during a lockdown, with appropriate social distancing measures. Documentation that 77% of highly active people and 58% of low active people exercised as much or more following the institution of a nationwide lockdown was impressive, given that the cases of COVID-19 were accelerating at that time. The Belgian government’s central promotion of exercise, to boost both the mental and physical health of the population, likely contributed to the health, tolerance, and ultimate success of lockdown. In this commentary, we wish to pose a follow-up query which highlights the potential detrimental effects of intense exercise (competition) performed without social distancing measures. The proposed graphical abstract elucidates these possible risks, in contrast to the favorable results outlined in Constandt et al.’s study.

Mental and Physical Health of Elderly People: Five-year Follow-up of a Total Population

1989 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
CAROL JAGGER ◽  
MICHAEL CLARKE ◽  
AMANDA J. COOK
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Mental And Physical Health
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