Chennai: Helpline 104 founded by the Tamil Nadu government to advise students who have taken the national feasibility test (NEET) have found that the level of high anxiety in students who have repeated the exam.
The counselors said that students who recorded a higher level of anxiety, 60 to 70 percent were students who had repeated Neet.
104 Helpline Health was established after three suicide students in three days.
While a student took extreme steps on the day of Neet, the other two took their lives after the exam.
Safe! You have managed to throw your votelogin to see this Resultsfter the Department of Health regulates the help channel through which the counselor will reach all 1,10,971 candidates from Tamil Nadu who take the NEET-UG exam.
The state has involved 60 psychologists and 25 psychiatrists to provide counseling to these students.
The number of all 1,10,971 students were collected and contacted.
Periyasamy, a psychologist with 104 health helpline, told IANS, “a large number of students who took the Neet was found tense and this, we could find that the maximum tense students were those who had taken repeaters.
Repeaters generally devote full years to prepare for the exam By passing their regular classes and therefore they will be very tense after appearing for inspection.
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The counselor said that 200 students were categorized as ‘high risks’ and counselors regularly touched them to prevent them from taking extreme steps.
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Sarvanan, head of 104 Helpline Health, told IAs, “from 1,10,971 candidates of Neet, 45000 did not respond to our recurring calls, but we will continue to call and advise them.”
He said that all students will be contacted again and this process will continue until students respond to calls.
He said that the call would continue until the test results came out.
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Venkitesh Madankumar, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health, Chennai while talking to IANS said, “Some students easily accept the exam and they say that if they cannot solve this, they will choose for another career.
However, 15 percent of students say that medicine is their lives.
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The counselors also said that some students who had emerged for the first time were also very tense and according to statistics these students were those who came from a weaker social and economic background.
Saravanan said, “Most of such students will be the first graduates of their families and they experience more tensions.
The counselor contacts high-risk students every alternative day and we are also related to their parents.”
He added that the details of these students were given to the district government where they lived and officials would visit the houses of these students.
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UV, Professor Psychiatry, Madurai Government Medical College, told IANS, “Students must be taught properly that the drug is not the end of life or this examination and they have high potential and they can try other areas if they cannot afford the test.
It must be communicated to them.
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At 104, the counselor said that most students who tension wanted someone to listen to their problems.
A psychologist when talking to IANs said, “We convinced them that we were there to listen to them and would sort out their problems.”