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Rationale: Chronic alcoholics suffer from cognitive impairment, thereby affecting their ADL and work performance. Objectives: The objective was to screen chronic alcoholics for cognitive impairment and assessing affectations in various components of MoCA. Early screening to help them from further deterioration in ADL and work. Materials and Methodology: In this case control study, 50 chronic alcoholics, males, age group 30–50 years, abstaining for more than two months, referred to outpatient De-addiction Occupational Therapy department of K. E. M. Hospital, Mumbai were screened using MoCA (Hindi) and compared with their age matched control group. Results: All patients showed mild cognitive impairment (MCI) on MoCA, irrespective of pattern and frequency of drinking. Their average mean score in MoCA test and control group was 21.02 and 26.03, respectively. The domains more affected were language, abstraction and memory, thus affecting their performance in ADL and work. Results were analyzed using unpaired ‘t’-test and were statistically significant at the level of p < 0.05 and 95 per cent confidence level. Conclusion: Screening of chronic alcoholics using MoCA showed MCI with varying degree of affectations in the sub-components of the test.

Background: Covid-19 outbreak had detrimental effect on global healthcare systems and on human life. Mental health problems are rising due to Covid-19 pandemic. This also brought significant disruptions to Occupational therapist's Quality of life. Therefore, we investigated the prevalence, severity of psychological well-being and analyzed various coping strategies used during Covid-19 and its impact on quality of life of Occupational Therapists. Objectives: Assess the impact of Covid-19 using Covid Impact scale, Psychological Well-being using Psychological Well-being scale, coping strategies using Brief Cope scale. Methods: Here, Quantitative research -Cross sectional survey, Non-probability sampling method-Convenience sampling was used based on Inclusion -Exclusion criteria. 100 participated in the study, Google forms containing questionnaires from scale were sent. Results: Statistical analysis showedthe mean value of Covid Impact Scale was 3.12 indicating there was an impact of Covid-19 on quality of life. 64% of the participants had an impact of Covid-19. The mean value of Psychological Well-Being Scale was 90.94 indicating that psychological well-being was not much affected. Maximum participants used Personal growth subcomponent (69.56). The mean value for Brief Cope Scale was 63.92. Approach coping was used the highest among all the participants (68.62). Co-relation statistical analysis between the Covid Impact scale and Psychological well-being scale showed weak negative co-relation (r = -0.11). Conclusion: 64% Occupational Therapists had an impact of Covid-19. Since Psychological well-being scale was a multifactorial component, weak negative co-relation was found between them. Participants being Occupational Therapists used more of Approach coping.