Intolerance of uncertainty across stress, anxiety, and depression among university students in Pakistan: A descriptive cross-sectional study.

Background: The mental health issues due to COVID-19, such as intolerance of uncertainty (IOU), anxiety, stress, and depression, have attracted extensive attention from researchers. The challenges for Pakistani university students could be worse than developed countries due to the lack of online courses/programs and online mental health support provided by academic institutions. Therefore, the current study aims to assess the intolerance of uncertainty, depression, anxiety, and stress of Pakistani university students after the second wave of COVID-19 and the relationship among these constructs.

Assessing the Workplace Cyberloafing Behavior among Pharmacists in Pakistan.

Objective: After the commencement of the Internet and the popularity of various electronic devices, cyberloafing has become prevalent in the workplace regardless of professional type, demographic characteristics, and country. Individuals use the Internet for work-irrelevant purposes during work hours, which is believed to have a controversial role in work productivity. However, rare studies have paid attention to the prevalence of cyberloafing behavior among Pakistan pharmacists.

Evaluation of anti-inflammatory and antibacterial potential of newly synthesized 4-(2-Keto-1-benzimidazollinyl) derivatives of piperidine.

Benzimidazole and its derivatives found variety of biological activities, for the searching of its potent anti-inflammatory analogues, we synthesized four novel 4-(2-keto-1-benzimidazollinyl) piperidine derivatives (Q1 to Q4) by refluxing piperidine with substituted imidazole and subjected to in-vitro anti-inflammatory (ROS, NO) and antibacterial activities, structures were elucidated using spectroscopic techniques. Results revealed that compound Q1 showed most effective anti-inflammatory activity with IC 7.6±1.

Synthesis, Characterization and evaluation of antioxidant potential of 2, 6-diphenylpiperidine-4-one compounds and their novel imine derivatives.

In search of potent molecules having antioxidant activity the present work was designed to synthesize 2, 6-diphenylpiperidine-4-one compounds (1a and 1b) and their imine derivatives (2a, 2b, 3a, and 3b). Compounds 1a and 1b were synthesized by Mannich condensation reaction. The method was found to be simple, convenient with high yield and products were easily separated.