Health promotion is essential to improve the health status and quality of life of individuals. Promoting mental health at an individual, community and policy level is central to reducing the incidence of mental health problems, including self-harm and suicide. Men may be particularly vulnerable to mental health problems, in part because they are less likely to seek help from healthcare professi...

Background and Objective: Caring for children with autism is associated with parental stress and puts them at risk for depression and anxiety. Increasing resilience may help reduce the parents’ stress. The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between resilience and anxiety, depression, and stress in families with autistic children in 2018. Materials and Methods: In ...

The relation between psychiatric symptoms and different types of challenging behaviour in adults with mental retardation was investigated, using an instrument designed for use by non-specialist informants. A sample of 165 persons with mental retardation was surveyed for the presence of psychiatric symptoms, level of mental retardation, and self-injurious and other types of challenging behaviour...

The objective was to study changes in EEG time-domain Kolmogorov complexity under different mental fatigue state and to evaluate mental fatigue using Lempel-Ziv complexity analysis of spontaneous EEG in healthy human subjects. EEG data for healthy subjects were acquired using a net of 2 electrodes (Fp1 and Fp2) at PM 4:00, AM 12:00 and AM 3:00 in the 24 hours sleep-deprived mental fatigue exper...

BACKGROUND There is little geographical variation in the prevalence of the common mental disorders. However, there is little longitudinal research. AIMS To estimate variance in rates of common mental disorders at individual, household and electoral ward levels prospectively. METHOD A 12-month cohort study of 7659 adults aged 16-74 years in 4338 private households, in 626 electoral wards. Da...

The delta/[symbol: see text] texel pair represents a dilemma in texture discrimination because, despite having the same component orientations, discrimination is still possible (Julesz, 1981), showing a performance asymmetry. Other possible element properties that could influence this task are line terminations, closure, and the size of these elements. We found that line terminators are critica...

This article is part of a book entitled Productivity, Innovation. Management and Development : A study in the Productivity Culture of Nations and System Renewal. The book was supported by a grant from the Quality Improvement Programme of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. The initiation, implementation, and development of productivity and innovation require skills, creativity, commitme...

Three-quarters of the global mental health burden exists in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet the lack of mental health services in resource-poor settings is striking. Task-sharing (also, task-shifting), where mental health care is provided by non-specialists, has been proposed to improve access to mental health care in LMICs. This multi-site qualitative study investigates the accep...

Some recent trends in contemporary DAI can be viewed as moving towards cooperation level solutions; though there is still greater need for recognition of this new level. The most widespread use of deeper models of social phenomena occurs within the context of communication; in speech act theory communication primitives and their effects are explicitly represented and reasoned about by the sende...

To change dietary behaviors, people must be motivated to do so. But intentions often do not translate into behavior. Strategic planning (as a mediator) is expected to move people from intention to action. However, individuals who lack perceived self-efficacy might fail to apply their plans when encountering challenging situations. Thus, self-efficacy might operate as a moderator variable when i...