14. Data Analytics of Psychological Distress and Coping Among Fresh Migrant from North Eastern Region to Bengaluru City

Psychological distress and coping are two aspects of the social and cognitive functioning of an individual. While the social environment enforces psychological distress, an individual uses his cognitive functions to create a mechanism of coping. This brings in a balance in individuals’ life, which enhances their individual and social functioning. The North Eastern part of India is well known for its deficits in the area of social, economic, instability in socio-political and lack of better education facilities in terms of professional courses which result in migration; in this process, a series of events are involved, and it has both positive and negative implication which often results in psychosocial issues. The current research is an effort to assess psychosocial issues confronting FMNER and their ways of coping. This research article discusses how data analytics for psychosocial distress and coping can be integrated among individuals migrating from one place to another place. The aim of the study is to assess the psychosocial perspective of FMNER to Bengaluru city with the following objective, to describe the socio-demographic profile and to study the psychosocial problem, psychological distress, and coping styles. Youth belonging from NER who is residing in Bengaluru city was considered for the study, the population of fresh migrants with less than one year stay and the age group of 18–34 years was considered, and sample size of 60 students, professionals, and non-professionals was selected for the study. Multistage random sampling was used. The tools for data collection used in the study are a semi-structured interview schedule, Self-Report questionnaire, and Brief COPE Data was analyzed using SPSS. The majority of respondents are in the age group of 21 and 23 years, there is an equal distribution of male and female 50%, and majority of respondents 46.7% educated up to HSSLC. Most of them 31.7% have stayed in Bangalore for the duration of 4 months, 60% know people in Bangalore prior to migration. 58.3% migrated for job purpose. Psychosocial issues like housing problems, difficulty to access health services, issues like the restriction of cooking of certain food, language difficulty, discrimination, and social profiling are being reported by respondents. SRQ clearly depicts that 73.5% were having a high level of psychological distress. The different styles of coping used often are instrumental support, Religion coping, and venting emotional support. The moderate coping styles are active coping and denial. The least is the substance used and humor. It is observed that male respondents have been using the substance as a way of coping. Thus, the overall findings of the current study show various issues and problems faced by the FMNER. The studies show the level of psychological distress is quite significant. The study provides scope for social work professionals to work in the area of preventive, promotive, and community mental health services and at the policy-making level to facilitate migration policy.