Introduction and Aim: The change in human behaviour has created a social phobia wherein a human use either computers or any other electronic gadgets to defend himself from social contact. Nomophobia is fear of not having mobile phones and the stress associated with it. Increased use of mobile phones among students  has changed the scenario and it is no more a luxury but a necessity. Social interaction has decreased and electronic gadgets have become the master. This has led to development of neuropsychological issues. The purpose of the study is to find out the prevalence of nomophobia among college students and to explore the association between nomophobia and stress, anxiety and depression.  Materials and Methods: Randomly selected 167 medical and dental students were given questionnaires to assess the prevalence of nomophobia. Separate questionnaires were given to assess stress, anxiety and depression. Results: Results showed a wide prevalence of nomophobia (59%) among students. 14%, 29%, 8% of students were seen having severe/ extreme depression, anxiety and stress respectively. Conclusion: Nomophobia was significantly associated with stress and depression (P ?0.05). Students have to be periodically screened to identify stress, anxiety and depression and counselled about the constructive usage of mobile phones.

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ntroduction: Stigma and discrimination within the healthcare sector in general may impact transgender people’s desire and ability to access appropriate medical treatment. The transgender community have specific healthcare needs which may go untreated leading to increased disease burden in the community. In India there is a gap in understanding the factors affecting utilisation of health services by transgender community. Aim: To determine the factors affecting presence of social, hospital phobia and anxiety among transgender individuals at a Transgender community centre in south India, and to understand the perspective of the community members on using healthcare services. Materials and Methods: The present quantitative component embedded within a qualitative study was conducted in the Department of Physiology, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Medical College and Hospital (DSMCH) (Community Centre), Siruvachur, Perambalur, Tamil Nadu, India for two days, during the month of August 2022 among 24 transgender adults. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with the group for the qualitative part of the study during two consecutive days in August 2022, and quantitative part was analysed within the same group using three questionnaires for social phobia, hospital phobia and hospital anxiety. Age-wise and genderwise distribution of scores in social phobia, hospital phobia and hospital anxiety were analysed using Mann-Whitney U tests as the data was not normally distributed. Results: Out of the 24 participants, 20 (83.33%) were in the age-group of 18-35 years and 18 (75%) identified themselves as transfemales. Qualitative analysis of semi-structured interview found prevalence of gender based discrimination and mistreatment at hospitals faced by transgender individuals leading to fear of hospitals. Out of 24, nine participants had hospital related anxiety score more than four out of nine. Social phobia score out of 36 was given and the highest score was 27, with a mean score of 11.416±8.445. Hospital phobia score out of 32 was given and mean score was 13±6.041. Conclusion: Transgender individuals feel hesitant to approach hospitals due to the discrimination they have faced and continue to face at hospitals. There is a need to make our hospitals a more inclusive space for them.

Introduction: There are various stressors that a student will encounter during their initial college days and our focus is to assess if gender and BMI have any effect on the stress and anxiety experienced by students. Materials and Methods: The questionnaire based study was conducted in a private medical college. 172 students doing their paramedical course participated in the study. Anxiety and stress were assessed using Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) and Cohens stress scale. BMI was calculated using anthropometric data. Results: The prevalence of low, moderate and high stress among students was 15.7%, 34.3% and 50.0% respectively. Similarly 29.1% students showed mild anxiety, 36% and 34.9% had moderate and severe anxiety. 57% females showed high stress. Anxiety values was similar among both genders. There was no association between stress and BMI. But underweight students showed more anxiety than others. Discussion: Study shows a wide prevalence of stress and anxiety among students. BMI also acts as a contributing factor for stress. Priority must be given for psychosocial well being of students as it reflects in their academic excellence and social behavior.

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