Red Flower's Journal of Psychiatric Nursing

Social media and networking has been becoming increasingly popular among the Indian youth as well as adolescents. A non-experimental, descriptive survey was done to assess the pattern of use and the effect of online social networking on the student nurses, in a selected college of Nursing in Delhi. 50 student nurses studying in D.G.N.M, B.Sc. (Hons.) Nursing and M.Sc. Nursing programmes in Rufaida College of Nursing, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, were selected for the study through systematic random sampling technique. The tool used for the study was semi-structured questionnaire. The data analysis revealed that 50% of students had neutral effect of online social networking on them, that is, on their studies and social relationships. Almost same number, that is, 48% of student nurses had positive effects of online social networking, while only 2% showed negative effects of online social networking.

Keywords: Social media; Online social networking; Effect; Pattern of use; Student nurses.

Introduction: This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation technique on generalized anxiety of elderly orthopedic patient in selected hospital of Pune City. Methods: Experimental and control group design was selected for the study. 40 elderly orthopaedics patients from selected hospitals of Pune City, were selected by random assignment technique.A Modified state trait Anxiety Inventory Scale was used to collect data from the subjects. Result: In the pre intervention stage, the anxiety level in elderly orthopaedic patients in experimental and control groups revealed that anxiety tended to differ from the mean by ± 5.16 in control group and ±8.15 in experimental group, whereas in post intervention stage, there was a significant mean anxiety reduction that tended to differ from the mean by ± 4.938 in control group and ± 4.426 in experimental group. Conclusion: In pre intervention, maximum anxiety in control group was 74 and in experimental group it was 85, whereas in post intervention, in control group the mean average of anxiety was 65.2 and 46.7 in experimental group. Findings indicated that the Jacobson Progressive muscle relaxation technique was effective for anxiety reduction among elderly orthopaedic patients. 

Keywords: Progressive muscle relaxation; Orthopaedics; Elderly patient.

Nursing has been considered one of the most stressful professions. Nurses’ stress is attributed largely to the physical efforts, suffering and emotional demands of patients and families, work hours, interpersonal relationships and other pressures that are core to the nurses’ work. With a view to assess the level of stress in nurses working in hospitals, a non experimental descriptive survey with a typical descriptive design was undertaken on 50 staff nurses selected by non-probability convenient sampling technique. Demographic proforma and modified Expanded Nursing Stress scale (ENSS) were used as tools. The stress scale consisted of 35 items classified into 8 areas which included death and dying, conflict with doctors, inadequate emotional preparation, problems relating to peers, problems relating to supervisor, work load, uncertainty concerning treatment and patients and their families. The interpretation of the scores ranging from 0 -35 was mild level, 36-70 moderate, 71-105 severe and 106- 140 as very severe level of Stress. The study revealed that more than half of nurses (52%) had experienced severe level of stress. Whereas workload and patients and their families (70%) accounted for major stressors for stress level among nurses, other leading causes for increased level of stress were found to be problems relating to peers (64%), death & dying (60%) and problems relating to supervisors (56%). The study also discovered that there was no significant association between level of stress and baseline variables. The study concluded that the level of stress was continuing to escalate and it was believed that nurses’ stress adversely affects the patient care. The investigator recommended that hospitals should take counter measures to relieve stress among nurses as nursing is regarded as a potentially stressful occupation. 

Keywords: Stress; Nurses; Hospitals. 

Background: Foot and ankle dysfunction secondary to peripheral nerve damage is the most common microvascular complication in individuals with diabetes mellitus.  Purpose: This study aimed to perform a systematic review and quantitative content analysis of articles emphasizing Quality of life (QoL) in people with Diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain (DPNP) and Painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (PDPN). Materials and Methods: The extracted data about every study included: journal, year of publication, number of authors, country of manuscript origin, goal of article (evaluation or intervention or both), subtypes of evaluation (tool development or measurement of QoL or multiple tools or mixed) and intervention (medical, surgical, or allied health), population characteristics (homogeneous or heterogeneous), type of article (original or review) which was further subclassified under study designs and respective Center for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) levels of evidence. Results: Descriptive analysis showed more number of QoL articles: from Diabetes Care; with more than three authors; published in the year 2008; originated from USA; on evaluation; on heterogeneous population; more original articles; and more articles with levels 4 or 5 evidence. Conclusion: The study findings provided a content analysis and synthesized findings from articles published on QoL in population with PDPN or DPNP, and the predominance of evaluation studies was evident, with inter-measure analyses, and more number of articles on medical management among the intervention studies. Levels of evidence for most of the articles were low, and there is need for future high quality studies and reporting standards in articles for effective evidence-informed foot and ankle rehabilitation in people with PDPN. 

Keywords: Evidence-based diabetes care; Diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain; Foot and ankle dysfunction; Painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy.