Browsing by Author "Rajendran, SS"

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    Educating lifestyle modification to diabetic patients
    (Medip Academy, 2024-11) Begam, S; Rajendran, SS; Venkatachalam, GP; Narayanasamy, V; Tamilselvi, P; Sheriff, DS.
    The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is steadily increasing, making them a major health concern. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the major non-communicable diseases that affects the public health and the community. DM is a chronic, complex disease that requires multi-factor risk reduction strategies apart from its maintaining blood glucose level. One of the community-based strategy is to educate diabetic patients about life style modifications. Keeping that as a guideline, a nurse-led intervention was carried out to ring about a change in life style in these patients. About 60 diabetic patients with equal number of control subjects were taken for the pilot study. Data were collected through interviews with a semi-structured questionnaire before (pre-test) and after nurse-led intervention (post-test) The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics; the calculated data were tabulated and graphed. The results of the study show that diabetic patients included in the study have improved their knowledge of life style modification. The community nurse intervention improved their perspective and understood the importance of life style medication (from 16.19 to 24.98%). This was tested using the student paired t test. Outcome of the test before the intervention showed significant change. Pre-test value was (53.97%) and the post-test intervention was 83.27%. The effect of such intervention was influenced the age, gender, education, and family structure. The intervention was found to be more effective in male patients of the age group 30-40 years with educational background and stable family structure having a joint family. The awareness created by nurse led intervention is effective and is significant taking age, sex, education level and the family structure. The pilot study indicates that further studies may be carried out in the community with general population and then specifically in patients with diabetes.
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    Health promotion intervention to educate mothers of preschool children to promote wellness
    (Medip Academy, 2024-08) Palavesam, P; Rajendran, SS; Venkatachalam, GP; Narayanasamy, V; Tamilselvi, P; Sheriff, DS.
    Preschoolers are delicate individuals with higher rates of mortality and morbidity. Nowadays, the focus is to reduce mortality rates by focusing on risk factors, including preventable causes and elements that affect children's health. Creating an awareness among mothers in a particular community will help prevent and promote health among such children. Therefore, a study is designed to find out the effectiveness of focused intervention on health promotion among mothers of preschool children in selected urban area of Chennai. To validate the effectiveness of focused intervention a pre-test and posttest outcomes were measured to enable the wellness of preschool children. A quantitative research approach and pre-experimental design were used to gather data from 100 mothers of preschool children using convenience sampling technique. Self-structured knowledge questionnaires were used during pretest and post-test. After pretest, a focused intervention on health promotion among mothers of pre-school children was given. The outcome of the study was measured through a post-test. The data collected was analyzed, interpreted and the outcomes were reported. The average pre-test level of knowledge score of mothers was 8.22 and the average post-test knowledge score was 16.05, a significant difference (7.83). Mothers in nuclear family in the urban area having more than one child showed better outcome. Statistical significance was calculated using the chi-square test. The preliminary study’s findings support that focused intervention helps mothers to gain more knowledge that may help to maintain the health of their children. Such studies may be recommended to educate the mothers help reduce under five child mortality.
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    A rare cause for delirium: COPE syndrome
    (Mansa STM Publishers, 2024-06) Anandan, S; Rajendran, SS; Kumar, JP; Shajee, DS.
    Calcium-alkali syndrome (CAS) (Milk alkali syndrome) is the third most common cause of hypercalcemia. The triad of hypercalcemia, metabolic alkalosis, and variable renal failure constitutes this syndrome. Here, we report a case of CAS in a female with post-thyroidectomy hypoparathyroidism who presented with delirium due to hypercalcemic encephalopathy. CAS can occur even after decades of normocalcemia in hypoparathyroidism, and regular monitoring of calcium levels is required.
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    A study to assess the effectiveness of community health nurse led educational module on modifiable risk factors of cardiovascular diseases among adults residing at selected urban areas, Chennai
    (Medip Academy, 2025-01) Krishnamurthy, T; Rajendran, SS; Venkatachalam, GP; Narayanasamy, V; Sheriff, DS.
    Knowledge is an important pre-requisite for implementing both primary as well as secondary preventive strategies for cardiovascular disease (CVD). There are no estimates of the level of knowledge of risk factor of heart disease in patients with CVD. Therefore, educating the public with relevant information related to cardiac health will help reduce the spread of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). One of the community-based strategy is to educate participants about cardiac health and CVD. A nurse-led intervention was carried out to bring about a change in the behaviour participants related to modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors related to CVD. The present study indicates the value of educating the public about risk factors associated with CVD.