Department of Pharmacy
Pokhara UniversitySchool of Health and Allied Sciences
Mental Health Problems and suicidal thoughts among the survivors in the highly affected areas of
Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake
Presented by:Biswash Sapkota
Gopal LamichhaneGrinsun Sharma
Mahendra Adhikari
Fifth semester, B. Pharm. School of Health and Allied Sciences
Pokhara University, Lekhnath-12, Kaski , NEPAL
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1. Creativity
2. Feasibility
3. Impacts
4. Summary
5. References
Topics under discussion
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Creativity Key points of idea generation:
o Along with damage of properties earthquake keeps long lasting mental health effects on individual involved.
o Mental health problem are combination of abnormal thoughts, emotions, behavior and relationships such as PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, Personality disorder.
o These kind of disorders can lead to the suicidal thoughts.
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Cont… Solution to the problem:
o Exact identification of the problem by cross sectional study on affected areas with pretested questionnaire followed by counseling and treatment depending upon severity of individual.
o Conduction of the Health Camp, Meditation, Psychotherapy, Counseling by the concerned authority will be recommended.
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Innovation
o There is no literature regarding mental health problems due to earthquake.
o It is completely new idea to explore the mental health problem occurred aftermath of quake.
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Feasibility o There is prevalence of mental health disorders due
to earthquake.
o Qualitative and quantitative data will be collected in affected areas with collaboration of society members and consent of participants.
o Cost effective data collection can be done by going through health camp and reconstruction program.
o Meditation, psychotherapy, counseling can be conducted with minimal cost.
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Impactso Data collection along with counseling will help the
participants life to reconstruct themselves.
o Identification of the mental health disorder will help concerned authority to plan and minimize abnormal thoughts, emotions, behavior and relationships.
o Development of the strong mentality and increase confident level among the people in future.
o After procurement of mental disorder mentally affected people can themselves involved in reconstruction program effectively.
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Summary o Earthquake has great impacts on mental health
o Proper identification and their treatment is necessary
o Identification will be carried out by using quantitative and qualitative cross sectional data analysis
o Recommendation to concerned authority to plan and minimize abnormal thoughts
o It helps in the development of the strong mentality and confident level among the people in future
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References • (2001). Anxiety Disorder. In Healthy Minds, Healthy Lives (pp. 703-907).
Georgia Avenue: Americian Psychiatric Association.
• Howard, B. C. (April 25, 2015). Nepal Earthquake Strikes One of Earth's Most Quake-Prone Areas. In The National Geographic Society. National Geographic Society.
• Suzuki, Y., Tsutsumi, A., Fukasawa, m., Honma, H., Someya, T., & Kim, Y. (2011). Prevalence of Mental Disorders and Suicidal Thoughts Among Community-Dwelling Elderly Adults 3 Years After the Niigata-Chuetsu Earthquake. Journal of Epidemiology , 21 (2), 144-150.
• Halepota A.A, W. S. (2001, july). Hopkins Symptoms Checklist 25(HSCL-25) Urdu Translation: An Instrument for detecting Anxiety and Depression in Torture and Trauma Victims.
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