Introduction: Stress has become an inevitable part of everyone’s life. Student nurses too are not untouched by this phenomenon. Too many assignments, hostel living and exposure to rigorous clinical training act as stressors. To combat these, they adopt various coping strategies. Objectives: To assess the stressors, level of stress and identify de-stressors among student nurses. Methods: A descriptive survey was conducted on a total of 100 student nurses studying in diploma and degree courses in a nursing college in Delhi, who were selected through convenient sampling. Data were collected using structured questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: 98% of student nurses were single. All 100% were female, out of whom 45% were Muslim, 35% were Christian and 20% were Hindu. 41% subjects suffered from mild, 57% with moderate,and 2% with severe stress. Academic stressor category topped the list, followed by clinical, individual and family stressors. De-stressors used by the students included venting, seeking social support, problem solving, intellectualization, etc. Conclusion: More than half of the nursing students were suffering from moderate to severe stress. Academic overload, examination and result apprehensions, lack of resources in clinical area and long college hours were among the common academic and clinical stressors bothering the student nurses.

With advent of progress in internet communication and online gaming, the use of internet has increased considerably amongst adolescents.1 The utilization has risen to such an extent that it has become pathological and ‘Internet Gaming Disorder’ has been included in the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as a condition meriting further research.2 Though there is ample evidence stating the psychological consequences of playing online games and getting ‘hooked to them’, taking one’s life or committing suicide presents the extreme behavior of an adolescent perplexed with the online challenge

Introduction: In this world of 7.2 billion people, 1.2 billion live in India and out of these, 243 million, i.e., 20.9% of the population are adolescents, between 10 and 19 years, as per 2011. This makes India the world’s largest adolescent-living country. As per WHO, HIV is the second leading cause of death among adolescents. In Dist. Bathinda, 99,595 people were tested out of which 1339, i.e., 1.34% were found to be positive till February 2014. Hence school education has been described as a ‘social vaccine,’ and it can serve as a powerful preventive tool. In India, there is a wide gap between the inputs in the HIV/AIDS curriculum for schools and the actual education that is imparted. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among adolescents (14 to 19 years) in three randomly chosen co-educational schools in Bathinda. Adolescents from 14 to 19 years in randomly chosen schools were included in the study. A pre-designed, pre-structured, pre-tested questionnaire was introduced to the participants by the interviewer in English and Hindi. Privacy of the schools and the participants was maintained by not mentioning their names anywhere in the study. Data was collected regarding knowledge, attitude and prevalence regarding HIV/AIDS. Results: A total of 401 adolescents were enrolled in our study out of which 282 were males and 119 females. Almost all the adolescents, i.e., 99.8% had heard about the term HIV/AIDS. 74.8% had TV and 61.6% internet as their source of information. A large number, i.e., 85.3% adolescents (87.6% male adolescents and 79.8% female adolescents) knew that sexual contact could be the mode of transmission of HIV/AIDS. A large number, i.e., 71.82% (80.14% males and 52.1% females) knew that HIV/AIDS could be prevented by using condoms. 52 adolescents had history of previous sexual exposure out of whom 48 used condoms during the last sexual contact. The association was significant between the knowledge and practice regarding the use of condom (highly significant: p<0.01). Conclusion: Thus this study reveals that still much has to be done towards imparting information about HIV/AIDS among adolescents, which could be done through many ways, like involving them in various activities at health centers as and when any IEC activities are carried out. Moreover schools and parents should also involve themselves and impart them more information regarding the disease. Mothers play an important role in providing more information to girl adolescents. Thus a collective effort is needed so as to have a bright future of these adolescents.

Background: Students in 14-17 years age group spend most of their time attending college/ school/tuitions/classes, studying, assignment completion, working on computers; hence mostly sitting for long hours in sustained posture or position. Students should be aware of the trap of incorrect sitting posture as they might encounter many health problems, if they continue to acquire an incorrect/poor sitting posture. Objectives: To identify awareness of correct sitting posture in age group 14-17 years, the source of information, if received, and problems experienced due to improper sitting posture. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study comprising of 400 students of 14-17 years age group was conducted in Pune city. Results: About 75% of the participants were aware about correct sitting posture, 81.5% had received information about correct sitting posture from parents, and 82% were aware of ill consequences of improper sitting posture. Conclusion: Knowledge about correct sitting posture among adolescents is present but it is still inadequate. Negative attitude towards the correct sitting posture and not willing to adapt the same in activities of daily living is a serious matter of concern. A bad habitual posture can have detrimental effects on health of students in near future. Therefore, educational campaigns on ergonomics and postures are the call of the hour.

Background: Adolescents are concerned about their physical appearance during socialization. Adolescents are more self-conscious in this age as puberty causesmany hormonal changestooccur. The aim of this study was to assess the perception of body image to the body fat content in these adolescent girls and boys. Objective was to assess body fat content and BMI and to correlate it with the body perception in this population. Methods: Post ethical approval and written informed consent (assent) from the participants, an assessment of the body fat content was done by using skin-fold caliper and by assessing the BMI of 200 adolescent girls and boys between ages of 13 and 15 years. Perception of body image was assessed by using body shape questionnaire (BSQ), which was correlated to body fat content using Spearman’s correlation coefficient with alpha set as <0.05 at 95% CI. Results: The BSQ scores did not indicate any concern of the body shape (26.89±11) in the studied population. Also their Body fat content (15%±6%) and BMI (19.9±3.6) was within the healthy fitness zone. There was a weak positive correlation between the BSQ score and body fat as measured by skin-fold caliper (r=0.182, p=0.010) and also by BMI measurements (r=0.183, p=0.009). Conclusion: There is a normal perception of the body image and normal fat content present in the adolescent population, which has a weak correlation to the actual presence of body fat within them.

Background and Objective: It is observed that body image is significantly important to young people. They spend considerable amount of time and money in looking lean, fair and other beauty parameters, which are usually created by media. The current study was conducted to assess the perceptions of young people namely B.Sc. 4 th year student nurses towards their body. Method: Forty-six students participated in the study wherein they had to fill a structured questionnaire assessing their attitude and practices related to their body image. Result: It was found that majority (63%) of them had fair, 34.8% had good and 2.2% had poor body image perception. All of them had healthy practices related to body image. There was a significant association of BMI with body image perception. Young children with normal BMI had fair body image perception. Conclusion: Body image perception is an important issue for the youth. They spend considerable amount of time thinking about this issue and interventions need to be planned to foster a more positive image of themselves in order to enhance their self-esteem.

The focus of the study was to find out whether factors of self-esteem and certain socio-demographic factors contribute towards academic performance in adolescents. Sample: The sample consisted of students taken from classes (VII–XII) from one school and their age ranged between 12 and 17 years; thus the final sample taken was of 727 students. Methodology: The tools used in this research were Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (SEI), Sociodemographic Questionnaire and previous year final-term scores. Analysis of Data: Data was analyzed using Pearson’s correlation, t-test, F-test, ANOVA and Post hoc Tukey. Conclusion: Self-esteem as a whole and its four sub factors correlated significantly with academic performance. That is, higher the self-esteem, higher was the academic performance. Of the four sub factors, school self-esteem factor appeared to have the highest correlation and home self-esteem appeared to have lowest correlation with academic performance. Self-esteem differed significantly in terms of socio-demographic variables (i.e., age, gender and family type). Academic performance differed significantly in terms of socio-demographic variables (i.e., age, gender and birth order).

Introduction: Approximately three-quarters of adolescents experience some type of victimization, either in school or as a whole in society. Their mental acumen is not strong enough due to various reasonsto resolve this age-related crisis and pushing them in a web of stress. The attitude of victim is influenced by his self-social image, personality and behavior which provide the space to the perpetrator of the offence. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey, using a pretested self-report questionnaire was conducted on 960 students aged 10–18 years of urban schools regarding the indulgence in violence as victims during the last one year. Observations: The prevalence of victimization was 18.33% while in male and female it was 59.09% and 40.90% in their respective groups. Parents possessing education less than high school produce the highest numbers of victims. 65.34% victims were staying with both parents and 19.88%, 63.63%, 55.11% and 35.79% were in habit of smoking, alcohol and tobacco use respectively. Discussion and Conclusion: Research studies have shown that the behavior can be modified and the proneness factors can be reduced or eliminated. Every child’s individuality should be appreciated for the value, rather than suppressed to reduce the risk of victimization. Not all children are able to alter their personal characteristics that may place them at increased risk. To benefit the society, the segregation and counselling of such students at school level is the only answer of this problem.

There is a noticeable trend in the admission of children and adolescents into the local adult psychiatric hospital in Trinidad (St. Ann’s Hospital). This facility was built in 1900 as an asylum with 400 patients but currently houses 800 patients, among whom are children and adolescents. A brief review showed that many were referred for what parents deem beyond-control behavior. The characteristics of the children and adolescents admitted for inpatient treatment have never been reviewed. The specific aims were to analyze the (1) demographic characteristics; (2) reasons for referral; (3) source of referral, and (4) diagnoses. Methods: This is a retrospective study. The records of children and adolescents admitted between 2009 and 2013 were reviewed. The participants would have been evaluated and diagnosed on the ward by the consultant psychiatrist. A data capture sheet was developed, based on the information contained in the patient intake form. Two nursing staff members were trained on data extraction. The data sheet was pretested with 20 files before a final adjustment was developed. Result: In summary, the findings showed that the major source of referral was from the judiciary (34%), followed by relatives (22%) and private care providers (20%, e.g., general medical practitioners). The least frequent source of referral was the child and adolescent mental health service (child guidance clinic).