Spirituality and Mental Health; an Unbreakable Interface

For downloading the full-text of this article please click here.Spirituality is broadly defined as something which everyone can experience, that helps us to find meaning and purpose in the things we value, brings hope and healing in times of suffering and loss and encourages us to seek a better relationship with ourselves For downloading the full-text of this article please click here.Please cite this article as: Bhatia SM. Spirituality and Mental Health; an Unbreakable Interface.Journal of Pizhūhish dar dīn va salāmat. 2020; 5(4): 1-6. https://doi.org/10.22037/jrrh.v5i4.2730

Types of coping as a determinant of quality of life of mothers of children with intellectual disability and autism

Background: It is well established that caregivers of children with developmental disabilities experience greater stress than caregivers of children without developmental disabilities. However, the experience of stress is dependent on the types of coping strategies that are used to manage stress. Such stress also affects the quality of life (QoL) of parents. Thus, parents of children with disabilities have specific mental health needs which play an important role in affecting their own and their child's QoL. Aim: To study coping as a determinant of QoL of mothers of children with intellectual disability (ID) and children with autism. Methodology: The sample consisted of 100 mothers of children (between 5-12 years of age) selected with purposive sampling, having an ID (n=50) or autism (n=50), diagnosed as per ICD-10 DCR criteria. In addition, the diagnostic assessment was also based on psychometric testing. Types of coping were assessed using Ways of Coping Questionnaires. QoL of caregivers was assessed by WHOQoL-BREF. Result: Multiple regression analysis revealed that seeking social support and planful problem solving were significant determinants of all four domains of QoL. Escape avoidance was a significant determinant of physical, psychological and social domains of QoL of mothers. Positive reappraisal significantly predicted the psychological and social domains of QoL in mothers. Conclusion: Types of coping are the determinant of  QoL of mothers of children with ID and autism. Keywords: Quality of life, coping, autis

Semantic segmentation of landcover for cropland mapping and area estimation using Machine Learning techniques

ABSTRACTThe paper has focussed on the global landcover for the identification of cropland areas. Population growth and rapid industrialization are somehow disturbing the agricultural lands and eventually the food production needed for human survival. Appropriate agricultural land monitoring requires proper management of land resources. The paper has proposed a method for cropland mapping by semantic segmentation of landcover to identify the cropland boundaries and estimate the cropland areas using machine learning techniques. The process has initially applied various filters to identify the features responsible for detecting the land boundaries through the edge detection process. The images are masked or annotated to produce the ground truth for the label identification of croplands, rivers, buildings, and backgrounds. The selected features are transferred to a machine learning model for the semantic segmentation process. The methodology has applied Random Forest, which has compared to two other techniques, Support Vector Machine and Multilayer perceptron, for the semantic segmentation process. Our dataset is composed of satellite images collected from the QGIS application. The paper has derived the conclusion that Random forest has given the best result for segmenting the image into different regions with 99% training accuracy and 90% test accuracy. The results are cross-validated by computing the Mean IoU and kappa coefficient that shows 93% and 69% score value respectively for Random Forest, found maximum among all. The paper has also calculated the area covered under the different segmented regions. Overall, Random Forest has produced promising results for semantic segmentation of landcover for cropland mapping

المعنويات والسلامة النفسية؛ علاقة غير منفصلة

معنویت عموماً به‌ عنوان چیزی که افراد می‌توانند آن را تجربه کنند، پدیده‌یی است که به آنان کمک می‌کند معنا و هدف را در آنچه برایشان ارزشمند است پیدا کنند. هنگامی که افراد از چیزی رنج می‌برند یا زیانی می‌بینند، معنویت به آنان امید و التیام می‌بخشد و ترغیبشان می‌کند که با خود رابطه‌ی بهتری داشته باشند Please cite this article as: Bhatia SM. Spirituality and Mental Health; an Unbreakable Interface.Journal of Pizhūhish dar dīn va salāmat. 2020; 5(4): 1-6. https://doi.org/10.22037/jrrh.v5i4.27309  Spirituality is broadly defined as something which everyone can experience, that helps us to find meaning and purpose in the things we value, brings hope and healing in times of suffering and loss and encourages us to seek a better relationship with ourselves   Please cite this article as: Bhatia SM. Spirituality and Mental Health; an Unbreakable Interface. Journal of Pizhūhish dar dīn va salāmat. 2020;5(4):1-6. https://doi.org/10.22037/jrrh.v5i4.27309لمعنويات بشكل عام هي ما يمكن أن يقوم مختلف الأفراد بتجربتها، ظاهرة تساعدهم في العثور على المعنى والهدف في ما هو ذو قيمة بالنسبة لهم. عندما يعاني الأفراد من شيئ ما أو يتعرضون لخسارة ما، فإن المعنويات تعطيهم الأمل والعلاج وتشجعهم لكي يكون لديهم علاقة أفضل مع انفسهم   يتم استناد المقالة على الترتيب التالي: Bhatia SM. Spirituality and Mental Health; an Unbreakable Interface. Journal of Pizhūhish dar dīn va salāmat. 2020;5(4):1-6. https://doi.org/10.22037/jrrh.v5i4.2730

Migraine: Clinical pattern and psychiatric comorbidity

Background: Migraine is a common disorder which has psychiatric sequelae. Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the clinical pattern and psychiatric comorbidity of migraine. Materials and Methods: 100 cases of migraine seen over a period of one year were analysed to know the sociodemographic characteristics, clinical pattern and psychiatric morbidity. Results: Maximum patients were between 31-40 years of age group (40%), females (78.0%), married (76%) and housewives (56.0%). Family history of migraine was present in 12% cases. Average age of onset was 22 years. Unilateral and throbbing type of headache was most common. The commonest frequency was one to two per week. Migraine without aura was commonest sub-type (80%). Generalized anxiety disorder (F41.1) was the most common psychiatric disorder (34%), followed by mixed anxiety and depressive disorder (F41.2) (18%) and depressive episode (F32) (14%). In 22% cases, no psychiatric disorder could be elicited. Conclusion: The present study confirms that majority patients with migraine had psychiatric disorders. This needs timely detection and appropriate intervention to treat and control the migraine effectively

Drug Induced Parkinsonism Presenting As Isolated Jaw Tremors

We describe a case of drug induced parkinsonism (DIP) that presented with isolated mandibular tremors despite prophylactic anticholinergic therapy. Varied presentations of DIP may be explained by anatomical & functional neuro-circuitry of striatum

25 Hydroxyvitamin D levels, quality of life, and disability in long-standing patients of somatization

Introduction: Somatization disorder is a debilitating condition, in which patients have multiple physical complaints with no explained cause and no relief even after consultations. Aim: The present study examined the association of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels, quality of life, disability, and symptom profile in long standing with somatization disorder. Methods: One-hundred three patients of somatization disorder suffering for ≥2 years, visiting psychiatry outpatient clinic during two consecutive summer season (April to June) of 2015–2016 were recruited. Symptom profile was studied using Patient-Health-Questionnaire (PHQ-15) items (somatic symptoms), PHQ-9 items (depressive symptoms), Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) item (anxiety symptoms).quality of life was assessed using the World Health Organization Quality of Life BREF 26 item, and disability measure was World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0. 25(OH) D levels were estimated using chemiluminescence binding assay. Results: The poor quality of life in somatization disorder was significantly associated with disability, symptom profile using PHQ-15, PHQ-9, and GAD-7. 25(OH)D levels were deficient in 56.31% of the study population. Conclusion: The high somatic symptom severity in majority of patients suffering from somatization disorder needs more attention from psychiatrists across cultures so that functional status and quality of life can be improved. Routine estimation of Vitamin D levels and correction of its deficiency may bring about symptomatic relief at an early stage, thereby reducing the morbidity associated with the disorder

Normal pressure hydrocephalus presenting as delusional disorder

Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is caused by aqueductal stenosis resulting in syndrome of gait disturbance, cognitive impairment, and urinary incontinence. Late onset psychosis should be evaluated thoroughly to rule out any organic cause. We present the case of a female patient presenting with delusions, gait disturbances, urinary incontinence in her 50s