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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.




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.




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.




Summary o Earthquake has great impacts on mental healtho Proper identification and their treatment is necessaryo Identification will be carried out by using quantitative and

qualitative cross sectional data analysiso Recommendation to concerned authority to plan and

minimize abnormal thoughtso It helps in the development of the strong mentality and

confident level among the people in future




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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