Manju George Pynadath

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Introduction: Current Covid -19 pandemic has disrupted life in every corner of the world and will likely affect those children with preexisting disabilities. About 40% of differently-abled students are planning to drop out of schools because of difficulties they are facing in online education. The social distancing measures implemented by many countries have caused social isolation among children and had resulted in increased anxiety; stress and relapse of preexisting issues. Objectives: This study aimed a) To Review the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on differently-abled children and their parents b) Discuss alternative measures for delivering health services for differently-abled children Materials and Methods: A literature review through online sources of the database. Studies published from January 2020 up to October 2021 where included Results: The review revealed that lack of socialization due to social distancing creates anxiety, stress, and depression among children and their parents. As schools have been suspended children with disabilities were not able to practice their learned skills which they attained through special education. Tele-medicine and Tele-rehabilitation activities may help to lower the prevalence of mental health issues among children and their parents Conclusion: Everyday life of individuals across the globe has been severely affected due to the covid 19 pandemic. Amidst this, it becomes important to keep children with physical and mental disabilities not only physically safe but also looks after their psychological and emotional well-being. Keywords: COVID-19, Telerehabilitation

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Introduction: The corona virus disease (COVID 19) had upended medical education. This pandemic had risen the uncertainty over the start of normal routine of studies in medical universities. During this pandemic period educators had to find new alternatives for academic delivery. Various online platforms were used for educating various courses for the students. As COVID 19 is a new disease and was having devastation effect globally its emergence and its spared caused anxiety among students. The exams were postponed due to lockdown and students were under going stress and it further led to anxiety. Nursing education was also most affected by this pandemic. Nursing a practice based profession, apart from the theoretical knowledge they need to acquire clinical expertise. Due to the emergence of COVID 19 pandemic the Undergraduate nursing students had an anxiety of future due to lack of clinical practice. More over students are anxious regarding the course completion, exams, financial constraints of their family and hazards in their working place. This study was aimed at assessing the anxiety and its causes among the Undergraduate Nursing students during COVID 19 Pandemic. Materials and Methods: Descriptive survey design was used. A total of 200 Nursing students were selected using convenient quota sampling method data was collected using semi structured questionnaire to assess causes of anxiety and rating scale to access the anxiety. Results: Study results revealed that the 50% of students had mild anxiety, 49.5 % had moderate anxiety and 0.5% had severe anxiety. In the area of technical issues 60% had issues related heavy battery consumption of their devices and reduced storage space. Regarding academic issues 64.5% had issues regarding inability of understand the topic in online classes, 63.5% had concerns regarding the extension of course due to delaying of exam results and 50.5% of them had concerns regarding their skill acquisition since they had only completed 80% of practical requirements. It was found that 88.5% of students faced decreased interaction with teachers due to online classes as a communication issue and 59% of students experienced financial issues due to increase in the expense of PPE kits. Twenty nine percentage of students were having concerns regarding migration difficulties that might come across in their future career. Sixty one percentage of students were having fear of getting infection due to disease transmission. Discussion: The rapid escalation in corona cases across the globe has created panic among people. Nursing students, being in direct contact with the patients in health care facilities, were always at risk to contact the deadly virus. This anxiety and worry poses a great mental turmoil and impacts the psychological health of the students. The study had generated baseline data with respect to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on causing the anxiety among nursing students. Students across the nursing institutes reported high levels of anxiety. Nurse educators should address such issues of students and use appropriate measures to allay their anxiety Keywords: Anxiety, Causes of anxiety, Undergraduate Nursing students

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Introduction: A woman is the essence of whole universe. If there would be no women, the human race is surely going to end. Women deserves more care and attention especially during the reproductive phase. Menstruation is a unique phenomenon of females of reproductive age group. Cultural, religious and traditional beliefs can lead to different restrictions that women face during their menstrual period. Menstrual cup is a device for menstrual flow management and is claimed to be a healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to the conventional menstrual sanitary protections. Even though menstrual cup is highly efficient it requires fair amount of self-confidence and assurance to insert into one’s own body. And the prevailing myths on breakage of hymen make the confusion of adolescents even worse. This study was aimed at assessing knowledge and attitude towards menstrual cup usage among adolescent girls. Materials and Methods: Descriptive survey design was used. A total of 100 adolescent girls were selected using convenient quota sampling methods. Data was collected using structured knowledge questionnaire to assess knowledge and an attitude rating scale to assess attitude towards menstrual cup usage. Results: The study results revealed that 50 % students had good knowledge, 35 % students had satisfactory knowledge, 8 % students had excellent knowledge, 6 % students had poor knowledge and one percent students had very poor knowledge about menstrual cup usage. Majority (81%) had a positive attitude towards menstrual cup usage, 19% had neutral attitude and none had negative attitude. Hence majority of the subjects had a good attitude towards menstrual cup usage. There was no relation between knowledge and attitude of adolescent girls towards menstrual cup usage. Discussion: Women have lots of concerns about managing menstrual flow. Fear of spotting, stains, squishy, messy, smelling and annoying nature of sanitary pads is still a major dilemma. Other alternative measure to sanitary napkins is menstrual cup. Adolescent girls achieve their knowledge on menstrual cup through the social media. Discussion: In a developing world, menstrual management is not only difficult but also may have serious adverse impact on the lives of women. Even when taboos are not a major problem, convenient or inexpensive menstrual collection materials are not available. Efforts to produce inexpensive materials are solely lacking. Women use clothes, absorbent pads or tampons to manage menstrual flow. Washing the clothes or disposing the pads hygienically is a challenge for most of the females. By interacting with other teens, investigators understood that women have lots of concerns about using sanitary pads. Other alternative measure to sanitary napkins is menstrual cup but females require self-confidence and assurance to insert it to one’s own body. Keywords: Menstrual cup, Adolescent girls

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