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... 25 Acknowledgements The authors thank the PRERANA Charitable Trust, Mumbai, India for financial support and the clinical and research staff, particularly Sangeeta Rao, Gopa Sakel and Sunita Iyer, ... psychosocial management, and 'institutionalisation' was the sad reality in mental health Parallel to physical health, changing expectations in mental health have been demanding It has also been argued ... temporary job status and burden of caregiving interfere with accessing available facilities Resources and manpower in mental health, however, continue to be less than adequate An urban-rural difference...
... situation In the primary appraisal the situation can be judged as harmful, as a threat or as a challenge The same situation can be appraised differently by different individuals The secondary appraisal ... regression analysis, this categorical variable was converted into a set of three new variables so that a deviation contrast resulted Accordingly, the effect of each accident category was compared to ... order to visualize the effects of appraisals on sickleave days taken the sample was divided into four groups based on the median values for appraisal of injury severity and of coping abilities (Figure...