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Purpose "Psychosocial health" is a new term to comprehend the already established factors involved in mental health and psychological well-being. The term has not been specifically defined and explained within the framework of psy...
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Purpose "Psychosocial health" is a new term to comprehend the already established factors involved in mental health and psychological well-being. The term has not been specifically defined and explained within the framework of psychology. Design/methodology/approach The study proposed and validated a new model of psychosocial health. Principal component analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted by involving a total of 4,086 participants. Findings Psychosocial health was interpreted as the "sexual, emotional, social, environmental, cognitive, religious, moral and spiritual satisfaction" of a person. The proposed model of psychosocial health was statistically validated. The additional findings revealed significantly higher levels of psychosocial health in women and significant inverse correlations between psychosocial health and age. Originality/value The current paper provided a comprehensive picture of psychosocial health from a psychological perspective and presented a statistically reliable tool for measuring psychosocial health.
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Infertility in collectivistic cultures is usually regarded as a matter of social stigmatization instead of a biomedical problem. It has adverse sociocultural consequences, especially for the female spouse. The current study, by in...
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Infertility in collectivistic cultures is usually regarded as a matter of social stigmatization instead of a biomedical problem. It has adverse sociocultural consequences, especially for the female spouse. The current study, by involving 20 infertile couples, was a qualitative research focusing on the sociocultural experiences of the infertile couples about the nature, causes, and consequences of infertility. The findings of the current study clearly depicted the sociocultural factors involved in interpreting infertility as a matter of shame and bad reputation for the couple and its family. The study has filled a significant knowledge gap and will be useful in identifying and addressing the cultural barriers in the treatment of infertility.
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Mental health services are globally less utilized because of several psychosocial barriers that vary from culture to culture. Regarding Pakistan, a serious knowledge gap existed in this regard. The current study was aimed at explo...
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Mental health services are globally less utilized because of several psychosocial barriers that vary from culture to culture. Regarding Pakistan, a serious knowledge gap existed in this regard. The current study was aimed at exploring the barriers for Pakistanis which stop them from seeking psychological help. The survey involved 3500 participants from 5 cities. The sample was sufficiently rich to be categorized based on gender, age, education, profession and income. Data was gathered through interviews and a self-report questionnaire. Lack of faith in psychological treatment, prior personal experience, religious fatalism, carelessness for mental disorders, social defame, personal shame, bad reputation of mental health practitioners, prohibition by family, and fear of treatment were found to be the barriers in seeking psychological help. To overcome these barriers, the participants of the current study suggested the mental health practitioners of the country to raise awareness on mental health and improve mental health services.
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INTRODUCTION: Stress electrocardiography has been the most commonly employed noninvasive method for the diagnosis of significant coronary artery disease. The most extensively studied variable of the exercise electrocardiogram is S...
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INTRODUCTION: Stress electrocardiography has been the most commonly employed noninvasive method for the diagnosis of significant coronary artery disease. The most extensively studied variable of the exercise electrocardiogram is ST segment depression. It has been found to correlate variably with the presence of angiographic ally demonstrable coronary artery disease (CAD). This can been attributed to various factors for instance mild CAD, ventricular dysfunction, previous myocardial infarction (MI), sub-maximal stress1, asymptomatic population2 and a host of other factors. METHODOLOGY: 1. Patient selection Ninety-nine patients referred for evaluation of chest pain or assessment of effort tolerance were studied retrospectively. Patients were excluded on account of the following reasons: 2. Stress electrocardiography Stress tests were performed on a multichannel computerized treadmill machine (Model: Quinton 2000). All patients performed graded maxim al exercise test in accordance with the Bruce Protocol the exercise end point was reached when 90% of the predicted maximal heart rate was reached or when one or more of the following criteria were present. RESULTS: Out of a total of 99 subjects(97 males), 27 were in the age group 21-40 years and the rest above 40. T evidence of thirty seven had electrocardiographic evidence of transmural myocardial infarction (21 anterior), 14 inferior and 2 both ant and inf.) DISCUSSION: The primary purpose of this study was to delineate whether the new criteria offered a significant improvement in the sensitivity over the conventional criteria, without adversely affecting the specificity and predictive value. I t is apparent from Table- 2 that the recent criteria offer an improvement in sensitivity from 71% to 82% in the group as a whole and from 62% to 76% in those with previous MI. This improve-A well known variable, occurrence of chest pain on exercise, although relatively in-sensitive (37%) was found to be highly specific(97%) for ischemic heart disease. CONCLUSION: With the use of new criteria in our study, out of a total of 99 patients, 8 additional cases were diagnosed as positive when compared with conventional criteria An increase in sensitivity of 10-14% appears significant specially when the specificity and predictive value remain unaffected.The new criteria would not only be more beneficial in diagnosing patients who have less extensive coronary disease (single and double vessel disease) in whom the incidence of false negative tests is known to be relatively high, but also in correctly identifying false positive ST segment response.
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