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Sampoornam, W.
- Eutony on Chronic Low Back Pain
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1 Saveetha University, Chennai, IN
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Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 5, No 1 (2015), Pagination: 121-123Abstract
Context: Eutony is uniquely equipped to help and re-acquaint oneself with a true sense of freedom and well-being which also gives the tool to increase the awareness of other people. Eutony Mind-body technique acts well on chronic low back pain reduction.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficiency of eutony on chronic low back pain patients admitted in Seventh day Adventist Hospital at Thanjavur.
Methods: The study subjects consisted of 60 patients recruited on the basis of simple random sampling technique with basic true experimental pretest-posttest design in which 30 samples received Eutony and the other 30 samples received standard methods of care. Pain was assessed by using visual analog scale (VAS) followed by eutony Mindbody technique in experimental arm whereas control arm received routine ward treatment protocol.
Results: The mean pretest pain score in experimental arm showed 16.9 and posttest score showed 12.2. Control arm depicts 15.1 mean pretest pain scores whereas posttest score was 14.5. Comparison of Paired t test value of pre and posttest pain scores among experimental arm and control arm showed 4.79 and 1.57 respectively.
Conclusion: Patients suffering from chronic low back pain improved significantly with eutony. Changes in standard low back pain measures of pain were with high-quality, extended mind-body therapy.
Keywords
Eutony, Chronic Low Back Pain.
- Hermeneutic Circle Focusing Lived Experience of Breast Cancer Survivorship-A Phenomenological Approach
Authors
1 Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN
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Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 5, No 3 (2015), Pagination: 439-442Abstract
Context: It was identified that there was only sparse disseminated research findings exist on woman and mental health in India. Privation in the literature survey including open access journal, wireless ad hoc network and grey literature on lived experience of breast cancer survivorship in India initiated the researcher to conduct the study based on social strain.
Methods: By undertaking hermeneutic phenomenological lived human relation qualitative research approach, a woman with stage II breast cancer and the family members were interviewed transcribed with focus on social strain based on three themes such as quantity and quality of relationships, involvement in groups and maintaining relationships and Nvivo 2.0 qualitative software was used for coding the data. Data analysis was done based on Van Manen's thematic analytic approach.
Findings: The lived experience identified was much serious on hearing the participant's narratives. This is considered existential and devastating challenge for the family members of a woman with breast cancer. This research work has authenticity and invites a vicarious lived experience of a breast cancer woman and the family members. Further extensive parallel positivist criteria on credibility, dependability, confirmability and transferability of the data may be required.
Originality/ Value: This manuscript paper is an original research article which describes the lived experience of a breast cancer woman and the family members on social strain perspective which reflects the relationship within the family context and environment. This research work would bridge the research gap and build evidence based practice by passing bricoleur task, dyadic interview, category scheme followed by coding, computer assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS), incubation analysis and scrutiny to validate interpretation of results.
Research implications: Anticipated generalizations explicitly support evidence. This research work can be effectively utilized by the emerging researchers and can be a baseline for further studies to build upon.
Practicality implications: This paper can be replicated and other components of lived experience can be eked. Focus group interviews can be conducted practically for the homogeneity. Thematic analyses were carried out promptly to validate results and further essential themes could be discovered.
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Hermeneutic Circle, Phenomenological Approach, Lived Experience, Breast Cancer, Survivorship.- Emotional Support Improves Quality of Life in Women undergoing Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer-A Wait List Control Arm
Authors
1 Saveetha University, Chennai, IN
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Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 5, No 3 (2015), Pagination: 316-318Abstract
Context: Radiotherapy may lead to side effects that undermine patient's quality of life. Although the support like emotional support appears to improve quality of life in breast cancer patients and only little is known about their benefits for patients who are receiving radiation therapy.
Objectives: The current study examined the efficiency of emotional support focused nurse directed intervention on quality of life among breast cancer women.
Methods: Fifty women with breast cancer were recruited from Erode Cancer Centre at Erode and were randomized to experimental arm (n= 25) and wait list control arm (n=25). Women in the experimental arm attended one to one emotional support focused nurse directed intervention with 7 sessions for the period of 30-45 minutes five times in a week for three months. Quality of life outcomes were assessed at baseline, during treatment and at the end of treatment.
Results: The mean age of the women was between 50 and 55 years. Multilevel analyses revealed that women in the experimental arm reported improved quality of life over time than women in the wait list control arm.
Conclusions: The current results indicated that emotional support may have therapeutic effects in the management of quality of life among women who are receiving radiation therapy for breast cancer.
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Emotional Support, Quality of Life, Radiation Therapy, Breast Cancer, Wait List Control Arm.- Nursing Process and Orlando Process Discipline-A Case Scenario
Authors
1 Saveetha University, Chennai, IN
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Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 5, No 2 (2015), Pagination: 212-216Abstract
Nursing theory is a conceptualization of some aspect of reality that pertains to nursing. Ida Jean Orlando was born in 1926. She was one of the first nursing theorists to write about the nursing process based on her own research (Orlando, I. J. 1972).- Stress and Quality of Life among Breast Cancer Patients
Authors
1 Saveetha University, Chennai, IN
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Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 4, No 3 (2014), Pagination: 325-327Abstract
Context: Breast cancer cases have doubled in India in the last two decades. In India the growing epidemic of breast cancer presents a major challenge to the global public health especially given the failure to cope with the current situation.
Objectives: This study was done to assess the level of stress and quality of life among breast cancer patients in Erode Cancer Centre at Erode.
Methods: The study design undertaken was non experimental descriptive design. Stratified random sampling technique was used based on the stages of breast cancer to select 40 samples for the study. The tools used to collect the data were demographic variables, P.Herschbach Questionnaire on Stress in Cancer Patients (QSC-R23) and the Quality Of Life instrument -Breast Cancer Patient Version.
Results: The result depicts that in stage I breast cancer patients 60% had mild level of stress, 40% had moderate level of stress and none of them with severe level of stress. In stage II 40% were with mild stress, 40% with moderate stress and only 20% with severe stress. In stage III 30% had mild stress, 30% with moderate stress and 40% with severe level of stress. In stage IV none of them were with mild level of stress, 30% were with moderate stress and 70% with severe stress. Breast cancer patient's Quality of Life exhibits that in stage I 40% had poor quality of life and 60% had very poor quality of life. In stage II 50% had poor quality of life and 50% with very poor quality of life. In stage III 20% were with poor quality of life and 80% were with very poor quality of life. In stage IV 10% had poor quality of life and 90% had very poor quality of life and none of them were with good quality of life between stage I and IV.
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Stress, Quality of Life, Breast Cancer.- Counterfactual in Nursing Research
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1 Dhanvantri College of Nursing, Pallakkapalayam, Namakkal (Dt) - 637303, IN
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Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 3, No 2 (2013), Pagination: 87-88Abstract
The counterfactual or potential outcome model has become increasingly standard for causal inference in epidemiological, medical and nursing studies (M. Hofler 2005). In quantitative research, scholars attempt to arrive at valid counterfactuals by emulating an experimental design. However, because of treatments that are impossible to manipulate and the non-random assignment of data to treatment and control groups, causal statements are often based on invalid counterfactuals.- Nursing Theory in Research
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1 Dhanvantri College of Nursing, Ganapathypuram, No.1, Ranganoor Road, Muniyappan Kovil, Pallakkapalayam, Thiruchengode (Taluk), Namakkal district-637303, IN
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Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 2, No 3 (2012), Pagination: 101-103Abstract
Nurses have often participated in research which has contributed much to the basic sciences that are fundamental to the practice of all health professionals. In the past nurses have functioned primarily as collectors of data, in the future nurses who are academically prepared will increasingly initiate and conduct research within the theoretical framework. We can expect that many will focus on the development of the body of nursing theory. (Myrtte Irene Brown 1964).- Compare Efficiency of Verbal Vs Written No Suicidal Agreement on Suicidal Ideation among Anxiety Patients
Authors
1 Dhanvantri College of Nursing, Pallakkapalayam, Namakkal (Dt) - 637303, IN
2 Dhanvantri Critical Care Centre, Erode, IN
3 Sudha Institute of Medical Sciences, Erode, IN
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Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 3, No 4 (2013), Pagination: 233-236Abstract
Context: Suicide is the model of psychiatric emergencies and also the commonest cause of death among psychiatric patients. This study aimed to compare and examine efficiency of Verbal vs written no suicidal agreement on suicidal ideations among anxiety patients.
Objectives: The objectives of the study were to assess the suicidal ideation before and after verbal vs written no Suicidal agreement and to compare the efficiency of verbal vs written no suicidal agreement on Suicidal ideation between experimental groups and also to find out association between posttest scores on suicidal ideation among experimental groups with their selected demographic variables.
Setting and Design: The study was conducted at Government Head Quarters Hospital Erode from June 2012 to July 2012 for the period of one month. True experimental factorial design was used in this study.
Materials and Methods: Purposive sampling technique was used to collect the data among twenty anxiety patients in which ten in each experimental group with previous history of suicidal attempt. Pretest and posttest was done by using modified Ivan W. Miller's suicidal ideation scale. Experimental group I received verbal no suicidal agreement as an intervention simultaneously experimental group II received written no suicidal agreement as an intervention.
Results: The study shows that the paired t test score for group one was (23.15) and group two was (18.25). When compared with written no suicidal agreement, verbal no suicidal agreement was more effective among anxiety patients. Among the demographic variables only previous history of suicide showed significant association.
Conclusion: Verbal vs written no suicidal agreements can be used in clinical practice in order to overcome the suicidal ideation among anxiety patients.
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Verbal No Suicidal Agreement, Written No Suicidal Agreement, Suicidal Ideation, Anxiety Patients.- Nurse Navigator and Quality of Life Research
Authors
1 Dhanvantri College of Nursing, Pallakkapalayam, Namakkal (Dt)-637303, IN
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Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 2, No 4 (2012), Pagination: 224-227Abstract
Use of the term "quality of life" invokes a number of reactions that are potentially damaging for scientists and clinicians involved in the delivery and evaluation of health care. These potential risks can escalate to unacceptable levels when associated with the promotion of new therapies. Both the lay public and health care professionals automatically accord status to the concept of "quality of life" that goes well beyond any comprehension that they might have of its definition. In fact precisely because the meaning is left unspecified it has a malleable property that renders it simultaneously valued by all and fully understood by none. (Paul Kind 2001).- A Study to Assess the Knowledge on Mental Illness
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1 Mental Health Nursing Department, The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai, IN
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Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 9, No 2 (2019), Pagination: 263-264Abstract
Mental illness is a significant contributor to global disease burden and this is expected to increase over the coming decades. Widespread educational campaigns need to be implemented across the region, designed to both increase knowledge about mental illness and reduce discrimination towards persons suffering with mental illness. Aim : This article focus on the estimation of knowledge on mental illness. Methods: Non experimental descriptive research design was selected for the present study. Random sampling technique was used to select 30 samples from Allinayakanpalayam village at Namakkal. Self evaluated rating scale was used to assess the knowledge on mental illness. Results: Most of the subjects had inadequate knowledge on mental illness. The estimated mean score of the knowledge was 26 + 4.63. No significant association was found between knowledge scores and age, gender, education, religion, occupation.Keywords
Assess, Knowledge, Mental Illness.References
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