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Mourougan, Samundeeswari
- Prevalence of Malnutrition among Hospitalized Children
Authors
1 Dept. of Pediatrics, Vinayaka Missions College of Nursing, Kiumampakkam, Puducherry, IN
2 Dept. of Nutrition, Vinayaka Missions College of Nursing, Kiumampakkam, Puducherry, IN
3 Dept. of OBG, Vinayaka Missions College of Nursing, Kiumampakkam, Puducherry, IN
Source
International Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 2, No 3 (2014), Pagination: 189-191Abstract
Malnutrition is the most wide spread condition affecting the health of children. Scarcity of suitable food, lack of purchasing power of the family as well as traditional beliefs and taboos about what the baby should eat often lead to insufficient balanced diet, resulting in deficiency disorders and malnutrition. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 60% of all deaths, occurring among children aged less than five years in developing countries, could be attributed to malnutrition. PEM is also associated with a number of co-morbidities such as lower respiratory tract infections including tuberculosis, diarrhoea diseases, malaria and anaemia. Hence, the present study investigated about the prevalence of malnutrition among hospitalized children and it was found that 54.4% of the samples were suffering from Grade I malnutrition, 23.3% of samples were in Grade II malnutrition, and only 10% of the samples were suffering Grade III malnutrition. Of the total samples 12.2% of them belong to normal. Association between selected demographic variables with malnutrition was determined and it was found that only age and income of the family had the association with malnutrition at 0.05 level of significance.Keywords
Prevalence, Malnutrition, Under Five Children, Hospitalized, Association.- Assess the Effectiveness of PPT on Nurses Attitude Regarding Significance of Antioxidants in AVMC Hospital, Puducherry
Authors
1 Dept. of Pediatrics, Vinayaka Missions College of Nursing, Kiumampakkam, Puducherry, IN
2 Dept. of Nutrition, Vinayaka Missions College of Nursing, Kiumampakkam, Puducherry, IN
3 Dept. of OBG, Vinayaka Missions College of Nursing, Kiumampakkam, Puducherry, IN
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 4, No 2 (2014), Pagination: 216-219Abstract
Antioxidants are scavengers of free radicals. Free radicals are easily generated by exposure to environment and normal physiological reactions. Free radicals may causes cellular damage that may leads to many diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, cataract, aging, diabetic complications. Antioxidants had proven to reduce the risk of these many dreadful diseases. Nurses plays a major role in the health care delivery system, if nurses are having favorable attitude on significance of antioxidants they can educate the patient about foods rich in antioxidants. So, investigators assessed the attitude about significance of antioxidants among nurses and it was found that 70% of nurses had favorable attitude during their pretest. The attitude score was 26.88±12.84. After the power point presentation the score was 36.17±3.07. Investigators found that all nurses had favorable and most favorable attitude towards the significance of antioxidants and none of the nurses had unfavorable and most unfavorable attitude towards significance of antioxidants so the PowerPoint presentation (PPT) was effective.