Effectiveness of structured teaching programme regarding prevention of opportunistic infections in terms of knowledge and practice among patients with aids admitted in IRT-Perundurai Medical College Hospital, Perundurai, Erode District.

Conceptual framework helps to express abstract ideas in a more reality understandable or precise form then the original conceptualization. This conceptual framework for this study was directed from Wiedenbach’s helping art of clinical nursing theory (1969). According to Ernestine Wiedenbach (1969), nursing is nurturing and caring for someone in a motherly fashion. Nursing is a helping service. That is rendered fashion with compassion, skill and understanding to those in need of care, counsel and confidence in the area of health. Conceptual used for this study based on the concept of helping the patient with AIDS to improve skills to cope with their disease condition and also to gain knowledge and develop desirable skill towards prevention of opportunistic infection. According to this theory nursing practice consists of three aspects which includes. Step I : Identication of the need for help. Step II : Ministration of the needed help. Step III : Validation of the need for help was met. The study was done to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme regarding prevention of opportunistic infections among patients with AIDS in terms of knowledge and practice. An evaluative study with one group pretest post test, i.e., pre experimental design was used for the study which was conducted at IRT- Perundurai Medical College Hospital. The total sample of the study was 50 patients with AIDS. The Samples were selected by purposive sampling method who met the inclusion criteria. The study was based on wieden Bach’s helping art theory was applied to the 105 study. Review of literature helped the investigator to develop necessary tool. The instrument consists of three parts with demographic variables, structured knowledge questionnaire to assess the knowledge, dichotomous questionnaire to assess the practice. The study was conducted at IRT- Perundurai Medical College Hospital. AIDS Patients admitted in the ward were included in the study and confidentiality was assured. The investigator gave brief introduction and pretest was conducted for 45 minutes and the structured teaching programme was conducted for 40 minutes using compact disc with television. Post test was done on 7th day. The data collected were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive and inferential statistics. Effectiveness of structured teaching programme was assessed by paired‘t’ test. Karl Pearson test was used to find out the correlation between knowledge and practice among patients with AIDS. Chi–square test was used to find out the association with knowledge and practice regarding prevention of opportunistic infections among patients with AIDS with their demographic variables. There was an improvement in knowledge, and practice regarding prevention of opportunistic infection. 106 Finding showed that the structured teaching programme was effective in increasing the knowledge and practice among patients with AIDS regarding prevention of opportunistic infectio

2,4,6,8-Tetra­kis(4-fluoro­phen­yl)-3,7-diaza­bicyclo­[3.3.1]nonan-9-one

In the title compound, C31H24F4N2O, the bicyclo­[3.3.1]nonane ring exists in a chair-boat conformation. Two of the four fluorine-substituted rings adopt equatorial dispositions with the piperidin-4-one rings. Mol­ecules are linked into a two-dimensional network parallel to (01) by N—H⋯O, C—H⋯F and C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. Inter­molecular N—H⋯π and C—H⋯π inter­actions are also observed

Assessment of the Behavioural Effects of Cartoon Viewing among Parents of Under-Five Children

Background of the Study: Cartoons are the most popular entertainment for the Children. Mostly children begin watching cartoons on television at the early age of six months, and by the age of two or three children become enthusiastic viewers. Objectives: The main objective of the study is to assess the behavioral effects of cartoon viewing among the parents of under-five children. Methodology: Descriptive study design was used to conduct the study in selected tertiary care hospital. As per the inclusion criteria 50 samples were selected by using non probability purposive sampling technique. Self structured questionnaire was used to collect data and the behavioral effects of cartoon viewing among the parents of under-five children. Results: The study findings revealed that, among 50 samples 32% of the Children had mild effects on behaviour, 66% had moderate effects on behaviour and 2% of the Children had sever effects on behaviour. The mean and standard deviation score of the study was 54.72+0.8571. There was a significant association between the behavioral effects of cartoon viewing and the age of the Children (χ2 = 7.6364 , P&lt;0.05). Conclusion: The study concluded that, 32% of the children had mild effects on behaviour, 66% had moderate effects on behavior and 2% of the children had sever effects on behaviour. Keywords: Cartoons, behavioral effects, under five children, parents.</jats:p