Aim: Corona virus disease (COVID-19) is caused by a new type of corona virus first discovered in China in 2019; hence the name COVID-19. Some of its symptoms include cough, fever, and breathing difficulty. In severe cases the disease can lead to death. This study looked at the...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i430161
Yasmin Souza Silva, Luciana Lane Gomes Da Silva, Wellington Carlos da Silva, Agrinazio Geraldo Nascimento Neto, Thalita De Sousa Pereira, Ana Karoline Campos Araújo, Armando Jarib Gonçalves Tavares, Rafaella Alves Weber, Livia Gomes de Oliveira, Nitiele Elizabete Cunha, Leonice Costa Luz & Jacqueline Aparecida Philipino Takada·International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal·2021
Introduction: Down syndrome is a genetic condition arising from three chromosomal abnormalities, namely trisomy 21 (the most well-known); translocation, and/or mosaicism. This chromosome change occurs in the formation of the fetus, in more detail at the time of cell division, whi...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i430160
Introduction: Technological devices have become a very important part of our everyday life. These electronic devices create an artificial electromagnetic field (EMF) and emit radiofrequency radiations (RFR) which have been reported to have deleterious effects on various tissues i...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i430159
Background and Aim: The objectives were to determine the effect of examination stress explored by self-evaluation questionnaire, correlation of examination stress and impact of examination stress on the academic performance. Materials and Methods: A prospective cohort study was c...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i430158
Background: As years passes by, the usage of social media has become an important public health issue. It is known that problematic social media use is related with health problems. With this study, it is aimed to determine the social media use of hospital employees, the relation...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i330157
The class of drugs designated as central nervous system (CNS) stimulants includes the four social drugs that find use among some youth of Eastern Nigeria; caffeine, nicotine, cocaine and marijuana. CNS stimulants increase or enhance the activity of monoamines (such as dopamine an...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i330156
Background and Objectives: Fasting over a prescribed period of time is a common religious tradition practiced by several prominent faiths in the world. It is also currently regaining interest as a medical practice, both as preventive and as therapy and/or simple choice of lifesty...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i330155
Aim: This study set out to determine the extent of use, abuse and dependence of commonly abused psychoactive substances and their correlates among undergraduates in the University of Port Harcourt. Methodology: In a cross-sectional survey, using multi-stage sampling, undergraduat...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i330154
Background and Aim: Alcohol Dependence Syndrome has deleterious consequences not only on the patient with Alcohol Dependence Syndrome but also on the members of his family. The psychopathology in wives of patients with Alcohol Dependence Syndrome is a largely neglected area in ps...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i330153
Introduction: Delusional parasitosis is a form of relatively rare psychiatric disorder in which the sufferer holds firms false believe of their skin being infested by parasite. On 1938 scientist Ekbom published a case report detailing 8 patients suffering from this delusional per...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i230152
Aims: This study set out to describe the profile of adolescents admitted unto an inpatient unit in Nigeria and their evaluation of the service. Study Design: This was a retrospective cohort study. Place and duration of study: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Univer...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i230151
Care home staff are frequently required to provide invasive personal care for their residents, and on occasions need to use restraint and restrictive practices with people with dementia. This often occurs in situations where the residents no longer have the insight that they requ...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i230150
The mental health issue during the COVID-19 pandemic must consider different populations: doctors / health professionals; general population and patients with mental disorders. When analyzing the stress-generating environment, such as intensive care units and emergencies, one mus...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i230149
Background: Prior to 1973, homosexuality was considered a mental disorder. Gay Rights Movement in European-Western world, controversial variegated theories and political all out efforts ultimately removed homosexuality from Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (D...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i230148
Background: Primary intra cerebral hemorrhage (ICH) has high rate of disability and death. Many factors was supposed to be predictors of the outcome. The significance of measuring C-reactive protein (CRP) levels to predict the outcome is uncertain, and data have been controversia...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2021/v15i130147