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Chitkala Venkareddy ¹, Sangeetha R. Mane ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Social Work, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

Schools train children in co-operative and mutually helpful living to become socially effective human beings in a democratic society. To make a child to set goals include learning to accept responsibility, to know the world of education, to make decisions, to solve one's own problems, to understand human relations, to develop sound values and to create a sense of social responsibility both Teachers and Parents play an important role. But in this Competitive race some children who exhibit Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Symptoms (ADHD) lack focused attention. Such students appear to satiate quickly on tasks, because they are easily distracted by all stimuli are very sensitive emotionally and neurologically and fails often to face difficulties understanding social situations even the teachers at school level and parents at habitat can face overwhelming stress resulting in deterioration of health. The present study stresses on the impact of ADHD symptoms on Health of school children, teachers and parents a comparative study is conducted from different Government, Pvt Aided and Pvt Unaided Schools in Dharwad City by adopting descriptive design, random sampling method, self constructed questionnaire is framed to know their impact on various health factors in different dimensions and conners scale was administered to teachers and parents to identify children exhibiting ADHD symptoms. The results were obtained by using Annova Test and it is seen that be seen that, a significant difference is observed between children, teachers and parents of children with respect to impact scores towards health (F=391.9393, p<0.05) at 5% level of significance Further, to know the pair wise comparisons of children, teachers and parents of children by applying the Tukeys multiple posthoc procedures the children have significant higher impact scores towards health as compared to teachers and parents. Teachers have significant higher impact scores towards health as compared to parents of children. Thus early identification and remediation is a matter of perennial concern as they deprive child's ability to function socially, academically, at home and school thus by helping child to build self-confidence and improving Family Dynamics by making micro adjustments can make a macro difference instead of struggling with symptoms associated with ADHD.

Keywords

School Children, ADHD Symptoms, Teachers and Parents.

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Sangeetha R. Mane ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Social Work, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

HIV/AIDS is a life-threatening illness that people are afraid of contracting. The various metaphors associated with AIDS have also contributed to the perception of HIV/AIDS as a disease that affects "others," especially those who are already stigmatized because of their sexual behaviour, gender, race, or socio-economic status, and have enabled some people to deny that they personally could be at risk or affected. HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination is, therefore, the result of interaction between diverse pre-existing sources of fear of contagion and disease. HIV is a chronic illness that has Physical, Emotional, Social, Spiritual and developmental consequence. HIV positive peoples experience multiple crises. In this ever-changing course of HIV disease, including AIDS, represents a continuous series of unexpected stressors, requiring repeated crises intervention appropriate for people who are HIV infected. People with HIV may experience episodic trauma over the course of the illness and consequently move in and out of equilibrium. Crisis intervention should be offered at every hazardous juncture. The study has conducted on crisis interventions and coping skills among PLWHAs getting treatment in ART centre in Hubli- Dharwad Corporation Area. Dharwad, Karnataka is one of the high prevalent states. The descriptive method of study was used. The quantitative method employed in this study was simple statistics expressed in frequencies and percentages; which explains crisis and coping skills of the respondents. 290 PLWHAs clients consented to be in the study group.

Keywords

HIV/AIDS Crisis Intervention, Stigma, Discrimination, Coping Skills.

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