Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research

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Objective: To assess the mental health and wellbeing of men and women during transition to first time parenthood in a view to prepare a health education module.

Method: A non-experimental research design with a descriptive approach was adopted. 100 women who were in third trimester and their husbands were interviewed using non probability purposive sampling technique.

Result: The findings revealed that, majority (58%) of men were likely to be well, with the mean score of 18.16 ± 5.290. Majority (56%) of women was likely to be well and the mean score was 18.38 ± 3.92.Findings revealed on wellbeing of men in different components, (21%) of the men were with good physical wellbeing, (42%) of men were with outstanding social wellbeing, (36%) were having good emotional wellbeing, and (37%) of men were having good spiritual wellbeing and (44%) men study samples were having good intellectual wellbeing, and the mean score were respectively; 26.61 ± 5.09, 32.16 ± 5.54, 29.96 ± 5.96, 31.48 ± 6.02, and 30.42 ± 4.85. Wellbeing of women in different components were, majority (72%) of women were having some wellbeing risks in physical wellbeing, (45%) were having good social wellbeing, (57%) were having good emotional wellbeing, (46%) were having good spiritual wellbeing, and (54%) of women were having good intellectual wellbeing. The Physical, Social, Emotional, Spiritual and Intellectual wellbeing mean score were respectively; 24.43 ± 4.369, 32.87 ± 5.13, 30.65 ± 4.8, 31.95± 5.42 and 31.42 ± 4.16.

Positive correlation was found between mental health and wellbeing of men and women. For men the positive correlation found between mental health and wellbeing were; physical (r=0.302), social (r=0.163), emotional (r=0.239), spiritual (r=0.208) and intellectual wellbeing(r=0.246) of men. For women the positive correlation found between mental health and wellbeing were; physical (r=0.385), social (r=0.402), emotional (r=0.228), spiritual (r=0.264) and intellectual wellbeing (r=0.175) of women.

There was a significant association found between level of men's mental health, physical wellbeing, social wellbeing, emotional wellbeing, spiritual wellbeing, and intellectual wellbeing during transition to first time parenthood with selected demographic variables. Also the significant association was found between level of women's mental health, physical wellbeing, social wellbeing, and emotional wellbeing, during transition to first time parenthood with selected demographic variables. And there was no significant association found between spiritual wellbeing, and intellectual wellbeing with selected demographic variables.

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Child labour indicates employment of child for economic wage earning work and the child is subjected to various hazards related to his mental, physical and social health. The child loses his "childhood" abruptly and is prematurely pushed to live an adult life and shoulder responsibilities. A summary by the ILO showed that, the world's 211 million working children aged from 5 to 14 were situated in the regions of the world, which is serious issue internationally.

Objective: To assess the knowledge and attitude on child labour among parents and to rule out the physical health problems of working children.

Methods: In order to achieve the objectives of the study, a non experimental research design with a descriptive approach was adopted. 80 parents of working children were interviewed using non probability purposive sampling technique.

Result: The result reveled that; majority (72.5%) of parents had moderately adequate knowledge on child labour. The mean score was 56.37 ± 11.61, parental attitude on child labour explains that, Majority (95%) of parents had positive attitude on child labour. The mean score was 70.26 ± 5.94 and identification of common health problems among working children shows that, Majority (92.5%) of children had moderate health problems which needs some medical intervention and (2.5%) of them had sever health problems which need urgent medical intervention. The mean score was 50.75 ± 5.36.

Findings of the study showed that there is a positive correlation between parental knowledge and attitude on child labour (r= 0.33, P<0.01). There is a low positive correlation between common health problems and parental knowledge (r=0.08) and also there is a low positive correlation between attitude and health problems (r=0.1). There was a significant association between the parental knowledge and Father's Education and there was a significant association between the parental attitude and age, monthly income of parents and other demographic variables like age, area of residence, habits, monthly income, and reason for child labour are not associated. There was no significant association between common health problems and demographic variables of working child.

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In medical terms stress is described as, "a physical or psychological stimulus that can produce mental tension or physiological reactions that may lead to illness". But there is not always necessary to say that stress in harmful as Hans Selye says, "stress is not necessarily something bad - it all depends on how person take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental." Stress can be therefore negative, positive or neutral.

Objectives: To assess the level of stress as measured by David Fontana's Professional Life Stress Scale and to assess the obesity and other selected health problems among professionals.

Method: In order to achieve the objectives of the study, a correlative non-experimental design with purposive, snowball sampling technique was used in this study. Samples of 300 professionals (Nursing-75, Banking-75, Teaching-75 and Pharmacy-75) were selected from different organizations, institutions and hospitals of Belgaum city. A self administered questionnaire was used for data collection.

Result: The findings revealed that majority (76.3%) of professionals had mild level of stress. The mean score was 23.86 ± 6.24. Result showed that majority (70.3%) of professionals had a normal BMI. The mean score of obesity was 23.18 ± 3.13. Findings also revealed that majority (63%) of professionals had mild degree of selected health problems with mean score was 74.73±20.15.

Findings of the study revealed that there is a positive correlation between level of stress and selected health problems (r= 0.5495, p<0.001). There is a very low positive correlation between level of obesity and selected health problems (r= 0.026) and there is a negative correlation between level of stress and obesity (r= -0.026). There was significant association between the level of stress and monthly income, type of family, occupation of family members, monthly family income, pattern of diet, years of experience at work and habits. Findings revealed that there was significant association between the level of obesity and age, sex, education, profession and years of experience at work and monthly income had a significant association with selected health problems.

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