Assessment of student anxiety: effects of a 15 days transitional curriculum for new first bams student

The current century has been called the Age of Anxiety, but concerns about fear and anxiety are as old as humanity itself. Although fear has been of interest since ancient times, anxiety was not fully recognized as a distinct and pervasive human condition until shortly before the beginning of the present century. It is said that Freud who first proposed a critical role for anxiety in personality theory and in the etiology of psychoneurotic and psychosomatic disorders. Anxiety was the “fundamental phenomenon and the central problem of neurosis” (Freud, 1836, p.85) but 2600 years ago super psychologist Buddha explained that All phenomena have mind as their forerunner; they all are mind-made. If one speaks or acts with an evil mind (i.e., engages in dasaakusala), then suffering (dukha) will follow just as the wheels of a cart follow the footsteps of the ox that is pulling the cart. All phenomena have mind as their forerunner; they all are mind-made. If one speaks or acts with a purified mind (i.e., engages in dasakusala and puññakamma), happiness (sukha) follows one like one’s own shadow. That is the source of “nirāmisasukha“, which eventually leads to Nibbāna.. For Freud, anxiety was “something felt” a specific unpleasant emotional state or condition of the human organism that included experiential, physiological, and behavioral components. From this year 2020-2021 the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) has created 15 days Transitional curriculum for ASU colleges and Maharashtra University of Health Sciences has implemented it as it is from this academic year 2020-21. After introducing and effectively implementing 15 days Transitional curriculum to First BAMS newly admitted student a significant reducing the anxiety and increased retention rate and improved academic performance of students. This study was done to analyze the anxiety levels of newly admitted First BAMS students in Mumbai to determine the effect of Transitional Curriculum orientation program and would assist in lowering anxiety levels. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Form Y-1 (STAI) was used to measure anxiety levels before and after Transitional Curriculum program was administered.