University of Peshawar

Emotional and behavioral problems not only affect the Child's life but also have long-lasting effects on families and society and few studies have been carried out to assess these problems. During the critical phase of childhood, a child may face many emotional and social pressures that can develop physical, behavioral, social, and academic problems, negatively impacting on child's school performance, social involvement, self-esteem along with other serious mental health issues. There is a relationship between traditional parenting practices (such as parental control, love, and rejection) and emotional problems of children including depression and anxiety but very little is known about the role of mindful parenting. Globally, many studies have been done on the prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems in children, whereas relatively little is known about the prevalence of child mental health problems and related risk factors in Pakistan. One of the treatments that they are using these days to provide the developmentally appropriate and therefore effective intervention that meets the mental health needs of children is Cognitive Behavior Play Therapy and mindful parenting.

A group of 120 school teachers (male=60, female=60) was divided into four subgroups for sixteen weeks of an interventional study. One group was kept in control while the other three groups were assigned intervention. One group was assigned intervention of lifestyle modification (LSM), the other group assigned the intervention of 5 gm psyllium husk fiber (PSH) two times a day, and the third group assigned the combined intervention of LSM & PSH. Each group comprised of 30 subjects with equal gender bifurcation (15 male and 15 female).

Rabies is fatal disease but preventable with rabies vaccines and immunoglobulins, conventionally involves intramuscular (IM) administration of the vaccine. However, switching the intradermal (ID) route offers potential advantages in dosing, time and cost without compromising efficacy and safety. Therefore, this study aims to compare the safety and immunogenicity of a short-term three-doses intradermal regimen (3D-ID) with a conventional five-doses intramuscular regimen (5D-IM) of the purified Vero cell rabies vaccine (PVRV), administered via both intramuscular (IM) and intradermal (ID) routes as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).