Indian Journal of Surgical Nursing

Title: A study to assess knowledge and practices of mothers about management of children with Enuresis residing in Mana Raipur. Objectives: (a) To assess the knowledge of mothers regarding management of children with Enuresis.(b) To assess the practices of mothers regarding management of children with Enuresis (c)To correlate knowledge and practices in mothers about management of Enuresis in children with selected demographic variables. Research Design: Descriptive research design Material: Self administered structured questionnaire prepared by the investigators. Sample: 50 mothers who were having Enuretic children. Sampling technique: A non-probability convenient sampling technique was used for selecting 50 mothers who met the designated set of criteria during the period of data collection. Results: The knowledge of adolescent girls in urban area regarding Anorexia Nervosa was significantly higher as compared to the adolescent girls of rural area. Conclusion: The mothers had very less knowledge about the meaning of Enuresis than the management of Enuresis. Only 52% of the mothers follow good practices about management of children with Enuresis. The level of knowledge is independent of the selected demographic variables. 

Keywords: Enuresis. 

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A nursing theory is a set of concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions or propositions derived from nursing models or from other disciplines and project a purposive, systematic view of phenomena by designing specific inter-relationships among concepts for the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and /or prescribing. A theory is a group of related concepts that propose action that guide practice. Theory refers to “a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation” The importance of nursing theories in education is to reinforce the nursing practices of patient treatment and care. Students who understand why a certain procedure is performed or what to expect from particular patients and situations have a basis for learning the actual practices that make up patient care and treatment. Nursing theory also defines the role of a nurse in the medical field, hospital or medical practice. It creates what is known as a body of knowledge for both the nurse in training and the veteran.

Key Words: Nursing theories; Nursing process; Pneumonia.  

A descriptive study was undertaken to assess the illness perception among post Myocardial Infarction patients at Jayadeva Institute of cardiovascular sciences and research. All patients admitted with Myocardial Infarction were selected using convenience sampling technique and sample size comprised of 50 patients. A standardized tool, Illness Perception Questionnaire- Revised was used to collect self reports. The findings revealed that mean score was 166.28, standard deviation was 1.617 and mean percentage was 87.5. The results were further analyzed by correlation analysis within the categories of illness perception. Although all the categories were not correlated, there was a positive correlation with over all score of illness perception and all categories. Pertaining to association with the illness perception score and demographic variables, no association was found.

Keywords: Illness perception; Illness perception Questionnaire-Revised; Myocardial Infarction.