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Background: Migration, whether voluntary or forced, entails major adaptations. An elaborate insight into the circumstances helps to induce various interventions in migrants. Aims and Objectives: To elicit the psychological health, lifestyle variables, religiosity, spirituality and coping among migrants and compare it with non-migrants in a rural locality. Material and Methods: A community based, cross-sectional study was undertaken among 404 adults aged 20 years and above. The General Health Questionnaire-12, Religiosity scale by Wilkes, The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale and COPE scale were used as psychometric tools for data collection. Data was analysed using SPSS (Version 20.0). Results: A sample of 137 migrants and 267 non-migrants were analysed. There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups for occupation and education (p=0.002 & 0.000 respectively). The mean scores of the psychological health of migrants (10.58± 6.32) were slightly better than that of non-migrants (11.49 ±5.69, p= 0.142). Spirituality scores showed migrants being more inclined towards spiritualism (p=0.016). Young age, religious and spiritual propensity showed a statistically significant correlation with better Psychological health (p=0.036, 0.000 & 0.013 respectively). Conclusion: Providing psychosocial assistance to migrant populations focusing on educational, occupational & religious-spiritual issues can reduce vulnerabilities especially for psychological health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Socio-cultural factors have a bearing on women's attitude towards menstruation. Health care providers should be aware of how women react to menstruation while providing health care. Aims & Objectives: To elicit menstrual awareness and knowledge of the rural adolescent girls and assess how this awareness, knowledge and demographics influence their menstrual attitude. Methodology: A community based descriptive cross-sectional study was undertaken among 245 adolescent school going girls in a rural area. Adolescent Menstrual Attitude Questionnaire (AMAQ) was used as a data collection device. Data were compared by using SPSS (ver. 20.0) at the level of 0.05. Results: At menarche, 59.9% adolescents were aware of menstruation and in 3/4th of them, mothers were the source of information. There was a statistically significant effect of menstrual awareness (yes or no) and menstrual knowledge (nil, partial and complete) on the combined dependent variables (F(6,238)=9.0, p= 0.000, Wilk's Lambda=0.81, partial eta square=0.29 and F(6,237)=8.01, p= 0.000, Wilk's Lambda=0.69, partial eta square=0.20 respectively). Older adolescents had favorable attitude towards menstruation in three significant dimensions i.e. living with menarche, openness and acceptance. Significant effect of mother's educational level was observed on five dimensions of menstrual attitude. Conclusion: Menstrual attitude is significantly affected by menstrual awareness and knowledge. Demographics too contributed in bringing positive attitude. There is a need to plan menstrual health education programme for adolescent girls and their mothers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]