https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/49 Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:42:07 GMT 2026-10-10T01:42:07Z https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/467 EXPLORING THE COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AND POST- DISASTER COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN GOLJUNG VDC IN RASUWA DISTRICT, NEPAL Dhungana, Sharmila Background Nepal ranks 11th on the vulnerability for natural disasters. Thus, disaster preparedness should be a key concern for Nepal to cope with future disasters that are likely to happen. One of the major ways in to build stronger communities so that individuals act in a quick and collective manner to become more resilient. Objective The study aims to understand the relationship between social capital and community resilience by measuring different components of trust, unity, peace, community and organizational participation, and awareness about external help. Methods The cross sectional study was conducted with 75 participants from age 18 to 60; surveys and interviews were conducted with reference to the Integrated Questionnaire on social capital by the World Bank. Convinience sampling was used and data analysis was done through SPSS. Results Majority of the participants (76.7%) said they trust most of the community members. 65% respondents believed the village to be very peaceful. 65% of the respondents believed the villagers were very united among each other. Conclusion Goljung VDC, although showing high levels of trust, peace, and unity, did not prove as resilient as other communities shown by literature. Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/467 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/316 Prevalence of Usage of Traditional Medicine in Bhutan [Thimphu, Wangdue and Punakha] Dorji, Ugyen Dema Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/316 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/315 CYBERBULLYING VICTIMIZATION, COPING STRATEGIES AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AMONG VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Phan, Yen Kim Background: Cyberbullying is a new public health issue emerging recently and rapidly due to the development of the electronic media. Objectives: This study aimed to study the association between coping strategies and severity of mental health status among Vietnamese university students. The study also examined the prevalence of cyberbullying, types of cyberbully, types of coping strategies, and different mental health problems regarding the levels of cyberbullying experience. Gender differences were also examined. Methods: A cross sectional study among 287 university students in Ho Chi Minh City were recruited to participate in this study from June to July 2017. Questionnaire was used to collect data regarding cyberbully experience, coping strategies, and participants’ mental health. Results: 29 out of 280 participants (10.36%) were found as cyber victims during their college lives which had 13 males (44.8%) and 16 females (55.2%). The results showed that most of victims faced cyberbully through text messaging and Facebook. Online harassment and denigration were 2 types of cyberbully which victims faced the most. Among 4 types of coping strategies used, changing setting (79.3%) for technological solutions, talking to friends (44.83%) for seeking support, thinking it was not real and ignore it (37.93%) or trying to talk to cyberbullies face-to-face (27.59%) for targeting towards cyberbullies strategy had highest frequency used. Victims of severe cyberbullied used more coping strategies than occasional and moderate severe cyber victims. Severe cyberbullied victims also had more mental health issues. Sadness (82.79%) and hurt (41.38%) were felt the most in among victims. Severity of mental health status showed statistically significant association with the number of coping strategies. (OR= 0.46, p=0.05) Conclusion: The results helped for the intervention and prevention of cyberbullying in the future. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/315 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/314 Maternal Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Infant and Young Feeding Practices and Its Impact on Growth of Babies Aged 6-24 Months: A Cross- sectional study from Jaffna District of Sri Lanka Pulendiran, Ahrani Background: Appropriate nutrition intake during first two years will reduce child mortality and morbidity rate and minimizes the risk of incidence of adult age diseases. Inappropriate feeding practices pose major negative implications to the socio-economic development of a nation and to cause poverty at the family level. Hence, emphasize on infant feedings practices is important to develop a healthy nation. Even though Sri Lanka shows remarkable improvements in its health services, prevalence of child malnutrition poses a severe health problem in the country. This study aimed to determine maternal knowledge, beliefs and practices on infant feeding and its impact on growth among 6–24-month-old infants. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in one of the MOH area in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. 256 mothers of 6-24 months aged babies were interviewed using interviewer-administered survey. Anthropometric measurements, demographic data, feeding patterns, maternal knowledge and attitudes and information on institutional assistances were collected. Results: Out of 256 samples, 49.6% of them were male and 50.4% were females. Exclusive breastfeeding rate for first 6 months was around 40%. In total, 46.1% infants initiated complementary feeding right after 6 months. More than 80% of the babies were found to be malnourished according to the BMI reference chart of WHO. Only 84 mothers scored more than average on nutritional knowledge score. Significant associations were found among nutritional status of the babies and exclusive breastfeeding, knowledge score, birthweight, maternal education level and feeding by mothers (p=0.004,0.047,0.000,0.09,0.030 respectively). Conclusions: overall feeding indices including EBF and CF of the study group were not satisfactory. Social and traditional practices influenced more on feeding patterns and behaviours regardless of maternal knowledge score and education level. More health interventions with frequent and continuous evaluation is essential to improve the health condition of the babies. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/314 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z