Psychological Distress Among General Adult Population Of Kathmandu Valley

Abstract

Introduction: A large proportion of the population in the community with psychological distress goes unnoticed. This study was done to assess the psychological distress among adult population of urban area of the Kathmandu Valley.
 Material And Method: The study was conducted among 280 individuals of age 18 years and above. Samples were conveniently selected from passersby in front of Mental Hospital, Lagankhel on World Mental health day 2018. The Nepali translated version of the General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) was used to assess the psychological distress among the study participants.
 Results: Majority of the participants had low psychological distress (62.86%) followed by typical (12.86%), more than typical (9.29%), evidence of psychological distress (5.71%) & severe distress (8.93%). 23.93% of the participants had psychological distress which needed attention.
 Conclusion: The psychological distress is a major public health concern in our study population. Focused interventions to improve the mental health of population are required to decrease the level of psychological distress among the general population.

The Cerebral Plasticity Prospect of Stingless Bee Honey-Polyphenols Supplementation in Rehabilitation of Post-Stroke Vascular Cognitive Impairment

“…The unifloral honey is produced mainly from a single plant species, with identifiable organoleptic characteristics including appearance, color, flavor, and taste, and contains more than 45% of the total pollen from the same plant species as analyzed Post-Stroke Rehabilitation using visual pollen identification analysis (melissopalynology). The multifloral, also known as polyfloral or blend honey, contains pollen from more than one plant species with no domination by any single plant species [56]. In contrast, the blossom or nectar honey originates from nectars of plants, while honeydew honey comes mainly from excretions of plant sucking insects (Hemiptera) on the living parts of plants or secretions of living parts of plants [54].…”

“…However, Department of Agriculture from the United States of America categorizes honey color into seven categories including water white, extra white, white, extra light amber, light amber, amber and dark amber with Pfund color scale of 0 to more than 114 mm [58]. Finally, is based on the style of marketing, honey can be categorized as chunk honey when honey is sold in a piece of a sealed and undamaged honeycomb, comb honey when honey is sold in sealed whole honeycombs, and comb honey in fluid honey when it is sold as a cut honeycomb inserted in fluid honey [56].…”

“…In general, honey contains about 200 distinct compounds [65]. Each honey's composition and properties are uniquely different which depend on the several factors as discussed in Section 3 [55][56][57][58]. However, there are many techniques that have been employed to determine the floral and geographical origin of honey produced which include pollen identification, gas chromatography spectrometry, and identification of selected chemical parameters [66].…”

Estimation of national and subnational all-cause mortality indicators in Nepal, 2017

“…The most recent data of reported deaths at all ages from one of these sources is from the CRVS Survey 2015/16, which had an estimated completeness of 75% [ 13 ]. Official mortality estimates are made indirectly by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), who estimate the level and patterns of child mortality, life expectancy at birth and maternal mortality ratio by applying demographic methods to different data sources, including the Population Census and DHS [ 17 , 18 ]. International groups such as the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) and United Nations World Population Prospects (UNWPP) also estimate mortality indicators of Nepal, at the national level only, based on limited data and large reliance on demographic and statistical modelling, including estimates from other countries [ 13 , 19 , 20 ].…”

“…This has resulted in significant variation in the estimates. For instance, between 1981 and 2011, CBS estimated female life expectancy in Nepal increased from 48.1 to 68.0 years and male life expectancy from 50.9 to 65.4 years [ 18 ]. Similarly, from 1980 to 85 to 2015–20 UNWPP estimated female life expectancy increased from 48.9 to 71.7 years and male life expectancy increased from 48.1 years to 68.8 years, while GBD estimated female life expectancy increased from 59.1 to 73.3 years and male life expectancy 57.7 to 68.7 years respectively between 1990 to 2017 [ 4 , 21 ].…”