scholarly journals MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH IN THE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF OCULAR HEALTH

2021 ◽  
Vol 09 (3) ◽  
pp. 572-579
Author(s):  
Shraddha S. Bhasarkar ◽  
Pradnya R. Bhumbur
Keyword(s):  
Bright Light ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Sense Organs ◽  
Ocular Disorders ◽  
Ocular Drugs ◽  
Nasal Application ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Uncorrected Refractive Error ◽  
Ocular Health

In today’s era of globalization, prevention plays an important role in the field of health science. Excess us-age of gadgets like use of computers, ipads and smart phones is leading to over functioning of eyes. Eyes are the windows to the mind. among the five sense organs Ayurveda gives prime importance to eyes. Now-a-days changed work expectations requiring prolonged working hours in front of computers, nutritional deficiency, pollution, stress, indiscriminate use of topical ocular drugs and increased incidence of allergic disorders, etc. lead to eye diseases. Suffering from ocular disorders with uncorrected refractive error in children result into adverse effect on quality of life and significantly affect their vision, education and psy-chosocial development. Working in artificial light either dim light or bright light is another culprit for dete-rioration of ocular health so emphasis should be laid on the prevention of these, as eyes are the most im-portant and sensitive of five sense organs in human body. Ayurveda is one of the greatest gifts to mankind. In Ayurveda, selected classical daily regimes like Netraprakshalana (eye wash), Anjana (collyrium), Snana(bath), Padabhyanga (foot massage with oil), Nasya (nasal application of drugs), wholesome and unwholesome dietetics are promoted as high-end measures for the maintenance of eye-health. Various Netravyayamas (eye exercises), Yogasanas, Pranayamas, Neti and Trataka are said to be beneficial for the same cause. The main aim of this review is to promote and spread the awareness about maintenance of oc-ular health and prevention from the earlier causation of ocular diseases.

A framework for understanding student nurses’ experience of chemistry as part of a health science course

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 597-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerrie Boddey ◽  
Kevin de Berg
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Health Science ◽  
First Year ◽  
Total Cohort

Twenty-seven first-year nursing students, divided across six focus groups formed on the basis of their past chemistry experience, were interviewed about their chemistry experience as a component of a Health Science unit. Information related to learning and academic performance was able to be established from student conversations resulting in three themes (and associated categories): Connectivity (curriculum, application, and social interaction); Reductivity (nature of chemistry, exposition, and control of learning); and Reflexivity (confidence, anxiety, and goal orientation). The framework proved useful in portraying relationships between themes for conversations related to tutorial sessions, prior knowledge, and chemistry in nursing. The focus groups were representative of the total cohort of students in terms of gender, age, working hours, academic performance, enjoyment level of chemistry, and the extent of the relevance of chemistry to nursing. Implications for chemistry educators, especially those supporting novices, are considered.

scholarly journals Anterior Segment Examination with Slit-Lamp Biomicroscope: What Should be Highlighted?

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Fazella Kirara Sakti
Keyword(s):  
Pathological Condition ◽  
Anterior Part ◽  
Anterior Segment ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Slit Lamp ◽  
Pathological Conditions ◽  
Ocular Disorders ◽  
Eye Examination ◽  
Illumination Source ◽  
Ocular Health

Ocular health assessment consists of various types of examinations that aim to find pathological conditions in the eye so that it helps ophthalmologists to diagnose and provide therapy for ocular disorders suffered by the patients. Slit-lamp biomicroscope is one of the most important eye assessments and has become the standard in assessing the pathological condition of the anterior part of the eye. This examination is performed using a stereoscopic biomicroscope instrument in combination with a bright illumination source. The results of the anterior segment examination using slit-lamp biomicroscope may provide more detailed ocular findings, such as the abnormalities of the eyelid, conjunctival lesions, abnormalities of the cornea, lens, or other parts of the anterior ocular segments. Therefore, the ability to examine slit-lamp biomicroscope is essential for the ophthalmologist. This review will discuss the eye examination using slit-lamp biomicroscope and the findings that will make it easier for clinicians to determine the direction of diagnostic approach in ocular patients. 

Review of Netrarog Hetu according to modern lifestyle.

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pranal V. Nandvikar
Keyword(s):  
Sense Organ ◽  
Causative Factor ◽  
Eye Diseases ◽  
New Era ◽  
Ancient Science ◽  
Eye Disorders ◽  
Causative Factors ◽  
Ocular Disorders ◽  
Lifestyle Measures ◽  
Ocular Health

Prevention of ocular disorders and preservation of ocular health has become essential, as changing lifestyle has resulted in many eye disorders and brought miseries to daily life. Our ancient seers have also given prime importance to eye by considering it as the most vital sense organ among all the sense organs. If the causative factors are not addressed this can lead to more serious diseases. Stopping the causative factor itself is a treatment. Ayurveda found to describe vividly about ocular health and hygiene. Asssociation between such faulty lifestyle measures and subsequent eye diseases are searched and reviewed from different Ayurvedic literature and online sources. Thus assessment was made to invest knowledge of ancient science for fulfilling the growing demand of mankind in new era. When it is assessed the path of application gets flourished as a science.  As prevention is better than cure, attempt is  made to analyse Netraroga hetus ( causative factors of eye diseases ) due to modern lifestyle and made is easy to be understood by everyone to understand and modify lifestyle.

Highly Developed Naturalist and Spatial Intelligences Influence Students’ Confidence in Performing Science Laboratory Work

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
BONIMAR ANGELIE DIEL ◽  
MICHELLE ACLEDAN
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Laboratory Work ◽  
Science Laboratory ◽  
Course Experience ◽  
Health Sciences Students ◽  
The Mind

The science laboratory work remains central to any science curriculum, be it indoor or outdoor in location. Of urgent importance for the successful formation of scientific habits of the mind and scientific investigative skills are the multiple intelligences and attitudes students bring to the laboratory. The current model of intelligence popular among science educators is the Multiple Intelligences Theory by Howard Gardner which articulates nine forms that are evident among learners. The naturalistic and spatial intelligences are the main focus of investigation since professional scientists are found to rely heavily on their spatial and naturalistic abilities when coming up with their discoveries. This study therefore investigated the science intelligences of 171 freshmen students in a university that offers academic programs under the health sciences. Notably, majority of the course experience in any health science program is replete with laboratory work. The spatial and naturalistic intelligences of the health sciences students are therefore examined specifically in its relationship to their confidence in performing laboratory activities. Findings suggest that students with highly developed naturalist and spatial intelligences are more confident when performing their laboratory activities.Keywords: Science education, spatial and natural intelligences, confidence, laboratory work, descriptive correlation, Davao City, Philippines

Understanding the Distinction between Sensations and Physical Properties of Objects by Children and Adults

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Subbotsky
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Cognitive Conflict ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Sense Organs ◽  
Subjective Character ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Direct Explanation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Marginal Improvement ◽  
The Mind

The study addressed the phenomenon according to which even educated adult individuals often confuse sensations received from physical objects (such as colour, sound, taste, weight, temperature) with physical properties of the objects that initiated these sensations. This means that in many cases scientific education fails to achieve its goal, which is to create in an individual the physical-scientific view of the world. To examine this phenomenon four experiments were conducted with the aims to determine to what extent: (1) children of various ages and adults were able (a) to acknowledge the fact that sensations appear due to the work of the human mind or sense organs and are not physical properties of the objects that produce them; (b) to appreciate the difference between the mind and sense organs as contributors to the production of sensations (Exp. 1); (2) various types of training could enhance children’s and adults’ understanding that sensations do not belong to the physical properties and objects (Exps. 2-4). The results of Experiment 1 conducted with 6- and 9-year-old children and adults did not reveal an age-related increase in the appreciation of the subjective character of sensations. However, 9-year-old children and adults (but not 6-year-old children) showed a diffentiated approach to various types of sensations, attributing pain mainly to the subject and softness-hardness mainly to the objects. Experiment 2 (direct explanation treatment), and Experiment 3 (cognitive conflict treatment) yielded no improvement in 6- and 9-year-old children’s appreciation of the subjective character of sensations and only partial improvement in adults. In Experiment 4 (social conflict treatment) adult subjects only were involved; the experiment showed a significant improvement in the subjects’ judgements about colour sensations and a marginal improvement in their judgements about weight sensations.

Descartes’s Secular Semantics

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-104
Author(s):  
Alan Hausman ◽  
David Hausman
Keyword(s):  
Sense Organs ◽  
External Objects ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Mind

… if we bear well in mind the scope of our senses and what it is exactly that reaches our faculty of thinking by way of them, we must admit that in no case are the ideas of things presented to us by the senses just as we form them in our thinking. So much so that there is nothing in our ideas which is not innate to the mind or the faculty of thinking, with the sole exception of those circumstances which relate to experience, such as the fact that we judge that this or that idea which we now have immediately before our mind refers to a certain thing situated outside us. We make such a judgment not because these things transmit the ideas to our mind through the sense organs, but because they transmit something which, at exactly that moment, gives the mind occasion to form these ideas by means of the faculty innate to it. Nothing reaches our mind from external objects through the sense organs except certain corporeal motions… in accordance with my own principles. But neither the motions themselves nor the figures arising from them are conceived by us exactly as they occur in the sense organs, as I have explained at length in my Optics. Hence it follows that the very ideas of the motions themselves and of the figures are innate in us. The ideas of pains, colors, sounds and the like must be all the more innate if, on the occasion of certain corporeal motions, our mind is to be capable of representing them to itself, for there is no similarity between these ideas and the corporeal motions.

scholarly journals Always on, never done? How the mind recovers after a stressful workday?

2021 ◽  
pp. 239700222110045
Author(s):  
Johannes Wendsche ◽  
Jessica de Bloom ◽  
Christine Syrek ◽  
Tim Vahle-Hinz
Keyword(s):  
Work Stress ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Adaptive Strategy ◽  
Related Strain ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Occupational Health Psychology ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Recovery Processes ◽  
Recovery From Work ◽  
The Mind

Many workers experience their jobs as effortful or even stressful, which can result in strain. Although recovery from work would be an adaptive strategy to prevent the adverse effects of work-related strain, many workers face problems finding enough time to rest and to mentally disconnect from work during nonwork time. What goes on in workers’ minds after a stressful workday? What is it about their jobs that makes them think about their work? This special issue aims to bridge the gap between research on recovery processes mainly examined in Occupational Health Psychology, and research on work stress and working hours, often investigated in the field of Human Resource Management. We first summarize conceptual and theoretical streams from both fields of research. In the following, we discuss the contributions of the five special issue papers and conclude with key messages and directions for further research.

scholarly journals PREVENTIVE CARE IN OPHTHALMOLOGY – A REVIEW ARTICLE

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 2850-2858
Author(s):  
Seema Yadav ◽  
Hardik Chudasama ◽  
Gulab Chand Pamanani ◽  
Aparna Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Eye Diseases ◽  
Eye Drops ◽  
Preventive Strategies ◽  
Sense Organs ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Eye Health ◽  
Eye Disorders ◽  
Nasal Application ◽  
Watching Tv ◽  
Important Branch

Shalakya Tantra is an important branch in Ayurveda which deals with the diseases of the supraclavicular region. Eyecare is described under "Shalakya Tantra”. The eye is the most important and sensitive of five sense organs in the human body. Ayurveda also gives prime importance to the eye and primarily aim at the prevention of disease and promotion of positive health. Some of the faulty lifestyle exposures like sedentary habits, smoking, alcohol consumption, fat, sugar-rich diet, junk food, high carbohydrate food etc are notably associated with the risk of developing eye diseases. Association of eye diseases with Dinacharya, Ritucharya, Aahara-Vihara, Mind, Occu- pation, and Aging process are also important. Factors like continuous hours spent reading, watching TV, using mobile and working on computers take their toll on eye health. Ayurveda possesses vivid information about the lifestyle leading to healthy living and also the preventive strategies in general. For eye diseases, a few daily regi- mens like Aschyotana (eye drops), Anjana (Collyrium), Nasya (nasal application of drugs), Abhyanga (oil massage) are promoted as high-end measures for the maintenance of eye health, Various Netra vyayama (eye exercis- es), Yoga, Pranayama and Satkriya (Neti, Trataka etc) are also an effective therapy for healing of eye disorders. Keywords: Dincharya, Ritucharya, Aschyotana, Anjana, Padabhyanga

scholarly journals Occupational hazards correlates of ocular disorders in Ghanaian fisheries

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Kyei ◽  
Andrew Owusu-Ansah ◽  
Samuel Bert Boadi-Kusi ◽  
Dennis Nii Abbey ◽  
Emmanuel Kwasi Abu
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression ◽  
Near Vision ◽  
Ocular Irritation ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Ocular Disorders ◽  
Ocular Health ◽  
Sand Dust

The study examined the ocular health of agricultural workers in the fisheries sub sector with the aim of establishing a possible correlation between the work place hazards and their ocular health. A multi-stage random sampling (involving 683 subjects, 358 fishmongers and 325 fishers) was employed. Ocular hazards encountered at the work place included seawater, sand or dust, heat, sunrays and smoke. Exposure to these hazards were found to be associated with ocular irritation (P<0.001), tearing (P<0.001), red eye (P<0.001), gritty sensation (P<0.001), blurred distant vision (P=0.001) and blurred near vision (P=0.001). The development of pterygium was associated with the exposure to sunrays (P=0.042) and heat (P=0.001) among fishmongers. Further analysis using multivariate logistic regression indicated exposure to heat as the most important predictive factor for pterygium (OR=1.951, P=0.003). Exposure to seawater was found to be associated with the development of cataract (P=0.022) among fishermen/fishers. Cataract among fishmongers was rather associated with exposure to heat (P=0.005), sunrays (P=0.035) and sand/dust (P=0.002). Exposure to work place hazards is associated with ocular disorders in the fishing industry of Ghana.

scholarly journals Accepting change in psychotherapy from consciousness to awareness

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-08
Author(s):  
Giulio Perrotta
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Systematic Errors ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
Sense Organs ◽  
Sensory Data ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Mental Constructs

Accepting to face a path of psychotherapy is not in itself sufficient to achieve the goals set in the therapeutic agreement between patient and professional. The present work analyses the differences between "consciousness" (and knowledge) of one's dysfunctional state, "will" to achieve change and "awareness of change", passing through all the traps that the mind can set for us, starting from the alterations of the states of consciousness to the wrong perceptual processes (which rework the external sensory data collected by the sense organs) to the not necessarily dysfunctional use of defense mechanisms, the imperfect centering on the knowledge of one's own needs and requirements, the excessive rigidity of one's system of beliefs, certainties and mental constructs, the use of irrational ideas based on empirical data falsely considered correct, the subjection of social influences and conditionings to impressions and systematic errors determined by cognitive dissonances and social and moral disengagements. The present work then focuses on the goals that the therapist must achieve to help the patient in his or her process of awareness and acceptance of change, and on recent techniques focused on the patient's emotional and emotional needs.

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