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Papers by Dr Tessy Treesa Jose

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2021

Background Sexual violence is cancerous, and it malignantly affects all strata of our community r... more Background Sexual violence is cancerous, and it malignantly affects all strata of our community regardless of age, gender, race, ability, and social status. Excellent healthcare service requires professionals who can do a sexual assault examination, collect medico-legal evidence, take photographs of patients' anatomy that was involved in the assault and document what is there and where it is in relation to the victims or perpetrators body or other parts of the crime scene, whether or not it is connected to the crime. Main text The objective of this article to orient the professions to the novel trends and approaches in forensic photography, namely e-consent, digital cameras and their accessories, dedicated forensic software, and photographic protocols and procedures. Conclusion The inadequate and improper collection, preservation and presentation of evidence can lead to crime scene errors and fewer conviction rates. Training in forensic photography is vital and a game-changer in...

International Journal of Nursing Education, 2017

Adolescence is the phase of transition between the childhood and adulthood, which leads to change... more Adolescence is the phase of transition between the childhood and adulthood, which leads to changes in physiological and psychological aspects. The present study pointed out the effectiveness of mental health promotion program on pre-university students. It brings positive outlook in their future life in various aspects. Objectives: Determine the knowledge of Pre-university students on mental health promotion and evaluate the effectiveness of Mental Health Promotion Program (MHPP) among pre-university students. Materials and Methods: Research design adopted in this study was quasi experimental pre-test and post-test control group design with an intervention to assess the effectiveness of program. Data was collected using demographic pro forma and knowledge questionnaire on mental health promotion. Data analysis was done using SPSS software 16 version. Results: In the pre-test, most 95.71% of the students had poor knowledge, 4.29% students had average knowledge scores in mental health promotion knowledge questionnaire. In the post-test, most of 52.85% had poor knowledge, 30% had average knowledge and 17.15% had good knowledge scores. Conclusion: Mental health promotion program was very effective in boosting the adolescent's knowledge on mental health promotion. In present study, only 8.57% students had poor knowledge in the post-test of experimental group and in control group most of them (97.14%) had poor knowledge scores on MHPP.

Background: Sexual assault examiners provides comprehensive health care to victims of sexual assa... more Background: Sexual assault examiners provides comprehensive health care to victims of sexual assault. Communication with the victim is important to collect relevant information from the victims. Ineffective communications can cause re-victimization and hamper the medico-legal evidence collection. Main text: This article aims to orient the novice examiner and nurses to the prerequisites of medico-legal history collection, techniques of building trust, establishing rapport, ensuring privacy and confidentiality, taking consent, communicating effectively with the victims of sexual assault, and components of medico-legal history collection. Conclusions: Novice examiners and nurses need to be trained in collecting medico-legal history and evidence. The examiners who conduct the examination should be dedicated to delivering compassionate and high-quality care to individuals who have disclosed sexual assault.

F1000Research

The medico-legal care of victims of sexual assault is very challenging, and requires specific kno... more The medico-legal care of victims of sexual assault is very challenging, and requires specific knowledge and skills. Professionals in the emergency departments of hospitals might not have specialised training in forensic science. Nurses have a very significant role in these settings, but they lack any formal forensic training. This study aims to develop a sexual assault nurse examiner-grounding program (SANE-GP) for Indian nurses to inculcate knowledge and skill regarding sexual assault examination. The study adopts a three-stage Delphi technique to develop the training module and uses a time-series design to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. A questionnaire on nurses’ knowledge on sexual assault examination (KQSANE-I) will be developed in phase-I and subsequently used in phase-II. The protocol of SANE-GP will help the medical community to implement the program across India. The implementation of SANE-GP can also help to start a sexual assault nurse examiner network.

F1000Research, 2022

Aim: This study aims to build the capacity of the people at grass root level as gatekeepers of me... more Aim: This study aims to build the capacity of the people at grass root level as gatekeepers of mental health. It will assess the effectiveness of the Gatekeeper Training Program (GTP) on gatekeeper behaviour, awareness, attitude, and mental help seeking intention. Design: An evaluative research approach in two phases. Phase 1: Cross-sectional house-to-house exploratory survey. Phase 2: A quasi-experimental design with multiple follow ups at 0, 6 and 12 months. Method: Data will be collected using standardized tools like Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (MHKQ), Community Attitude towards Mentally Ill (CAMIS), Mental Help Seeking Intention (MHSIS) and Gatekeeper Behavior Scale (GBS). For Phase 1, a house-to-house survey will be conducted among the selected colonies of Koraga tribe to determine their awareness, attitude, and mental help seeking intention regarding common mental health problems. Phase 2 includes identification of the leaders/representatives of the selected tribal c...

Mental Health & Prevention, 2020

(Ph.D. in Law). A member of the Women's Action Group and Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Women Lawyer... more (Ph.D. in Law). A member of the Women's Action Group and Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Women Lawyers' Association, Dr. Tsanga has worked tirelessly in areas of access to justice, women's human rights, and constitutional reform. Among other positions, Dr. Tsanga has acted as a consultant to a number of international agencies, such as UNIFEM and UNESCO. She is Trustee for several non-governmental organizations, including the Swedish Human Rights Foundation.

Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 2018

Enhancing the quality of the nursing research reporting through structured approach is the key in... more Enhancing the quality of the nursing research reporting through structured approach is the key in solving the problems related to reporting. Complete and transparent reporting of nursing research with the standard guidelines such as, The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE), Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT), Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), Standards for reporting qualitative research (SRQR), Consensus-based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline (CARE) and Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ)will ensure the transparency through the minimum set of items required to reflect what was one done? What are the outcomes? What are the benefits? What are the issues that bring bias and what are the harms? The ‘Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research’ (EQUATOR) network and ‘Penelope Research’ also helps the authors to solve problem of finding out of relevant reporting guidelines. Whatever may be the reason writing and publishing high impact nursing and health research is the need of the day.

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Medical, Health, Biomedical, Bioengineering and Pharmaceutical Engineering, 2016

Nursing is recognized as a stressful occupation and has indicated a probable high prevalence of d... more Nursing is recognized as a stressful occupation and has indicated a probable high prevalence of distress. It is a helping profession requiring a high degree of commitment and involvement. If stress is intense, continuous and repeated, it becomes a negative phenomenon or "distress," which can lead to physical illness and psychological disorders. The frequency of common psychosomatic symptoms including sleeping problems, tension headache, chronic fatigue, palpitation etc. may be an indicator of nurses' work-related stress level. Objectives of the study were to determine psychiatric morbidity among nurses and to find its association with selected variables. The study population consisted of 1040 registered nurses working in selected medical college hospitals and government hospitals of Udupi and Mangalore districts. Descriptive survey design was used to conduct the study. Subjects were selected by using purposive sampling. Data were gathered by administering background proforma and General Health questionnaire. Severe distress was experienced by 0.9% of nurses and 5.6% had some evidence of distress. Subjects who did not have any distress were 93.5%. No significant association between psychiatric morbidity in nurses and demographic variables was observed. With regard to work variables significant association is observed between psychiatric morbidity and total years of experience (z=10.67, p=0.03) and experience in current area of work (z=9.43, p=0.02).

Introduction: Parents with children having intellectual disability experience more stress compare... more Introduction: Parents with children having intellectual disability experience more stress compared to their counterpart who have children with no intellectual disability. Disabilities of children may burden their family members, especially their parents, who are their long term caregivers. Mother act as the primary caregiver within the family. Purpose: This systematic review is intended to bring out pooled evidence on quality of life (QOL) of parents with children having the intellectual disability which will affect the rehabilitation of the affected child. Method: Databases such as CINAHL, Pub Med/Medline were searched to identify the potential studies. Results: A variety of survey methods were used by the researchers. Studies also focused on various domains of QOL such as financial wellbeing, family support and community interactions, etc. and findings showed a QOL ranging from good to excellent. But, most of the studies used purposive sampling technique and had missing data. Meta...

Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development, 2021

Background: Job satisfaction is the affective orientation that an employee has towards their work... more Background: Job satisfaction is the affective orientation that an employee has towards their work.Identification of the factors related to job satisfaction has the potential to aid the development of employmentstrategies to improve retention and reduce turnover.Objectives: The study was conducted to assess the job satisfaction of nurses as measured and to identify thedeterminants of the job satisfaction with regard to selected demographic and work related variables.Method: A cross sectional survey design was used to conduct the study. The study population consisted of1040 registered nurses working in selected medical college hospitals and government hospitals of Udupi andMangalore districts during the period of data collection. Subjects were selected through purposive sampling.Data were gathered by administering Background proforma, and The Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire(MSQ).Results: Majority i.e. 977 (93.94%) were in the category of low satisfaction and only 10 (0.96%) subje...

Objectives Environmental hazards are part of the Earth’s natural cycle and are ongoing within hum... more Objectives Environmental hazards are part of the Earth’s natural cycle and are ongoing within human history. When vulnerable situations meet environmental hazards, disasters occur where human and natural costs could be enormous. This study aimed to explore the experiences of the victims of coastal erosion during the monsoon season. Methods Seven victims of catastrophic coastal erosion in the Kollam District of Kerala, India, were interviewed from December 2013 to February 2014. The study followed Edmond Husserl’s descriptive phenomenological method. Result These interviews constituted the primary data source. Three main themes with eleven subthemes emerged from these data. The main themes were impact, consequences and recovery. The subthemes were living in constant fear, escaping from the catastrophe; cataclysmic sea waves and their tumultuous behaviour, instant damage and destruction, the epoch of losses; agony and suffering; homelessness-helplessness-sleeplessness mixed with fear;...

Cultural competence is a viewed as a necessary set of skills within nursing, and there is a need ... more Cultural competence is a viewed as a necessary set of skills within nursing, and there is a need for student support in this area. This is particularly important in mental health care, with two skills considered crucial for providing quality care: therapeutic relationship skills and positive attitudes. With the objective of initiating an educational collaboration between two educational institutions, this study examined Australian and Indian undergraduate nursing student's perceived therapeutic relationship skills and stigma attitudes associated with mental illness. Participants were five hundred and fifty-five (n = 555) undergraduate nursing students from two different universities in Indian and Australia. The modified version of the Scale To Assess Therapeutic Relationship (STAR-C) and the Social Distance Scale (SDS) were both used to examine student's perceived therapeutic relationship skills and stigma attitudes. Australian nursing students indicated lower levels of stig...

Married working women face many challenges in their life as career women and as a responsible fam... more Married working women face many challenges in their life as career women and as a responsible family member. Inability to maintain a balance in this dual role makes them frustrated in various aspects which adversely affect their performance and quality of life. Work demands, night duties and poor wages made the staff nurses to shift from clinical side to the education field. Academic field is also facing the same burdens but for other reasons such as class preparation, assignment corrections, class coordination, student counselling and many more. Moreover recent strikes by nurses all over India also throw light to the difficult job adjustment situations ("Nurses go on", 2013) All these show the importance of investigating more to throw light to this area. These entirely made to analyse job satisfaction among married staff nurses and nursing faculty. A descriptive survey was carried out. Simple random sampling was done for the selection of hospitals and purposive sampling f...

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2021

Background Sexual violence is cancerous, and it malignantly affects all strata of our community r... more Background
Sexual violence is cancerous, and it malignantly affects all strata of our community regardless of age, gender, race, ability, and social status. Excellent healthcare service requires professionals who can do a sexual assault examination, collect medico-legal evidence, take photographs of patients' anatomy that was involved in the assault and document what is there and where it is in relation to the victims or perpetrators body or other parts of the crime scene, whether or not it is connected to the crime.

Main text
The objective of this article to orient the professions to the novel trends and approaches in forensic photography, namely e-consent, digital cameras and their accessories, dedicated forensic software, and photographic protocols and procedures.

Conclusion
The inadequate and improper collection, preservation and presentation of evidence can lead to crime scene errors and fewer conviction rates. Training in forensic photography is vital and a game-changer in the sexual assault examination.

Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU, 2015

Problem statement: “A study to assess the effectiveness of academic stress management programme o... more Problem statement: “A study to assess the effectiveness of academic stress management programme on academic stress and academic performance among higher secondary students in a selected school of Udupi district, Karnataka, India” Objective : To evaluate the effectiveness of academic stress management programme on academic stress and academic performance. Materials and Methods: Study was conducted among 96 subjects. Data were collected using Demographic Proforma and Academic stress Rating Scale. Academic performance was assessed by verifying existing school records of formative evaluation test conducted in the month of January and February 2013. Academic stress management programme was provided one hour per day for three consecutive days. Result: Data were analysed using t test and Wilcoxon signed rank test. Result showed a significant difference in pretest post test stress level and academic performance. Conclusion: The findings of the study indicated that academic stress management...

Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU, 2015

Background : Adolescence is a fluctuating period wherein they love to do things as they wish and ... more Background : Adolescence is a fluctuating period wherein they love to do things as they wish and something that gives them a thrill without reasoning and hence they need to be guided. Objective : Determine the knowledge and find the effectiveness of an awareness program on substance abuse and its consequences among the PU College students.Find the association between the pretest knowledge scores and the selected variables like age, gender, monthly income of parents, and education of parents, birth order and history of substance abuse in the family. Method : A Pre-test post-test design was used. Fifty three students from Udupi district was selected by convenient sampling. The tool used was knowledge questionnaire on substance abuse and its consequences. Demographic proforma was used to collect the background information. SPSS software version 16 was used for data analysis. Results : Pretest knowledge shows that 91% of the students had average knowledge and about 2% of the students ha...

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2021

Background Sexual violence is cancerous, and it malignantly affects all strata of our community r... more Background Sexual violence is cancerous, and it malignantly affects all strata of our community regardless of age, gender, race, ability, and social status. Excellent healthcare service requires professionals who can do a sexual assault examination, collect medico-legal evidence, take photographs of patients' anatomy that was involved in the assault and document what is there and where it is in relation to the victims or perpetrators body or other parts of the crime scene, whether or not it is connected to the crime. Main text The objective of this article to orient the professions to the novel trends and approaches in forensic photography, namely e-consent, digital cameras and their accessories, dedicated forensic software, and photographic protocols and procedures. Conclusion The inadequate and improper collection, preservation and presentation of evidence can lead to crime scene errors and fewer conviction rates. Training in forensic photography is vital and a game-changer in...

International Journal of Nursing Education, 2017

Adolescence is the phase of transition between the childhood and adulthood, which leads to change... more Adolescence is the phase of transition between the childhood and adulthood, which leads to changes in physiological and psychological aspects. The present study pointed out the effectiveness of mental health promotion program on pre-university students. It brings positive outlook in their future life in various aspects. Objectives: Determine the knowledge of Pre-university students on mental health promotion and evaluate the effectiveness of Mental Health Promotion Program (MHPP) among pre-university students. Materials and Methods: Research design adopted in this study was quasi experimental pre-test and post-test control group design with an intervention to assess the effectiveness of program. Data was collected using demographic pro forma and knowledge questionnaire on mental health promotion. Data analysis was done using SPSS software 16 version. Results: In the pre-test, most 95.71% of the students had poor knowledge, 4.29% students had average knowledge scores in mental health promotion knowledge questionnaire. In the post-test, most of 52.85% had poor knowledge, 30% had average knowledge and 17.15% had good knowledge scores. Conclusion: Mental health promotion program was very effective in boosting the adolescent's knowledge on mental health promotion. In present study, only 8.57% students had poor knowledge in the post-test of experimental group and in control group most of them (97.14%) had poor knowledge scores on MHPP.

Background: Sexual assault examiners provides comprehensive health care to victims of sexual assa... more Background: Sexual assault examiners provides comprehensive health care to victims of sexual assault. Communication with the victim is important to collect relevant information from the victims. Ineffective communications can cause re-victimization and hamper the medico-legal evidence collection. Main text: This article aims to orient the novice examiner and nurses to the prerequisites of medico-legal history collection, techniques of building trust, establishing rapport, ensuring privacy and confidentiality, taking consent, communicating effectively with the victims of sexual assault, and components of medico-legal history collection. Conclusions: Novice examiners and nurses need to be trained in collecting medico-legal history and evidence. The examiners who conduct the examination should be dedicated to delivering compassionate and high-quality care to individuals who have disclosed sexual assault.

F1000Research

The medico-legal care of victims of sexual assault is very challenging, and requires specific kno... more The medico-legal care of victims of sexual assault is very challenging, and requires specific knowledge and skills. Professionals in the emergency departments of hospitals might not have specialised training in forensic science. Nurses have a very significant role in these settings, but they lack any formal forensic training. This study aims to develop a sexual assault nurse examiner-grounding program (SANE-GP) for Indian nurses to inculcate knowledge and skill regarding sexual assault examination. The study adopts a three-stage Delphi technique to develop the training module and uses a time-series design to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. A questionnaire on nurses’ knowledge on sexual assault examination (KQSANE-I) will be developed in phase-I and subsequently used in phase-II. The protocol of SANE-GP will help the medical community to implement the program across India. The implementation of SANE-GP can also help to start a sexual assault nurse examiner network.

F1000Research, 2022

Aim: This study aims to build the capacity of the people at grass root level as gatekeepers of me... more Aim: This study aims to build the capacity of the people at grass root level as gatekeepers of mental health. It will assess the effectiveness of the Gatekeeper Training Program (GTP) on gatekeeper behaviour, awareness, attitude, and mental help seeking intention. Design: An evaluative research approach in two phases. Phase 1: Cross-sectional house-to-house exploratory survey. Phase 2: A quasi-experimental design with multiple follow ups at 0, 6 and 12 months. Method: Data will be collected using standardized tools like Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (MHKQ), Community Attitude towards Mentally Ill (CAMIS), Mental Help Seeking Intention (MHSIS) and Gatekeeper Behavior Scale (GBS). For Phase 1, a house-to-house survey will be conducted among the selected colonies of Koraga tribe to determine their awareness, attitude, and mental help seeking intention regarding common mental health problems. Phase 2 includes identification of the leaders/representatives of the selected tribal c...

Mental Health & Prevention, 2020

(Ph.D. in Law). A member of the Women's Action Group and Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Women Lawyer... more (Ph.D. in Law). A member of the Women's Action Group and Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Women Lawyers' Association, Dr. Tsanga has worked tirelessly in areas of access to justice, women's human rights, and constitutional reform. Among other positions, Dr. Tsanga has acted as a consultant to a number of international agencies, such as UNIFEM and UNESCO. She is Trustee for several non-governmental organizations, including the Swedish Human Rights Foundation.

Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 2018

Enhancing the quality of the nursing research reporting through structured approach is the key in... more Enhancing the quality of the nursing research reporting through structured approach is the key in solving the problems related to reporting. Complete and transparent reporting of nursing research with the standard guidelines such as, The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE), Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT), Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), Standards for reporting qualitative research (SRQR), Consensus-based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline (CARE) and Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ)will ensure the transparency through the minimum set of items required to reflect what was one done? What are the outcomes? What are the benefits? What are the issues that bring bias and what are the harms? The ‘Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research’ (EQUATOR) network and ‘Penelope Research’ also helps the authors to solve problem of finding out of relevant reporting guidelines. Whatever may be the reason writing and publishing high impact nursing and health research is the need of the day.

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Medical, Health, Biomedical, Bioengineering and Pharmaceutical Engineering, 2016

Nursing is recognized as a stressful occupation and has indicated a probable high prevalence of d... more Nursing is recognized as a stressful occupation and has indicated a probable high prevalence of distress. It is a helping profession requiring a high degree of commitment and involvement. If stress is intense, continuous and repeated, it becomes a negative phenomenon or "distress," which can lead to physical illness and psychological disorders. The frequency of common psychosomatic symptoms including sleeping problems, tension headache, chronic fatigue, palpitation etc. may be an indicator of nurses' work-related stress level. Objectives of the study were to determine psychiatric morbidity among nurses and to find its association with selected variables. The study population consisted of 1040 registered nurses working in selected medical college hospitals and government hospitals of Udupi and Mangalore districts. Descriptive survey design was used to conduct the study. Subjects were selected by using purposive sampling. Data were gathered by administering background proforma and General Health questionnaire. Severe distress was experienced by 0.9% of nurses and 5.6% had some evidence of distress. Subjects who did not have any distress were 93.5%. No significant association between psychiatric morbidity in nurses and demographic variables was observed. With regard to work variables significant association is observed between psychiatric morbidity and total years of experience (z=10.67, p=0.03) and experience in current area of work (z=9.43, p=0.02).

Introduction: Parents with children having intellectual disability experience more stress compare... more Introduction: Parents with children having intellectual disability experience more stress compared to their counterpart who have children with no intellectual disability. Disabilities of children may burden their family members, especially their parents, who are their long term caregivers. Mother act as the primary caregiver within the family. Purpose: This systematic review is intended to bring out pooled evidence on quality of life (QOL) of parents with children having the intellectual disability which will affect the rehabilitation of the affected child. Method: Databases such as CINAHL, Pub Med/Medline were searched to identify the potential studies. Results: A variety of survey methods were used by the researchers. Studies also focused on various domains of QOL such as financial wellbeing, family support and community interactions, etc. and findings showed a QOL ranging from good to excellent. But, most of the studies used purposive sampling technique and had missing data. Meta...

Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development, 2021

Background: Job satisfaction is the affective orientation that an employee has towards their work... more Background: Job satisfaction is the affective orientation that an employee has towards their work.Identification of the factors related to job satisfaction has the potential to aid the development of employmentstrategies to improve retention and reduce turnover.Objectives: The study was conducted to assess the job satisfaction of nurses as measured and to identify thedeterminants of the job satisfaction with regard to selected demographic and work related variables.Method: A cross sectional survey design was used to conduct the study. The study population consisted of1040 registered nurses working in selected medical college hospitals and government hospitals of Udupi andMangalore districts during the period of data collection. Subjects were selected through purposive sampling.Data were gathered by administering Background proforma, and The Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire(MSQ).Results: Majority i.e. 977 (93.94%) were in the category of low satisfaction and only 10 (0.96%) subje...

Objectives Environmental hazards are part of the Earth’s natural cycle and are ongoing within hum... more Objectives Environmental hazards are part of the Earth’s natural cycle and are ongoing within human history. When vulnerable situations meet environmental hazards, disasters occur where human and natural costs could be enormous. This study aimed to explore the experiences of the victims of coastal erosion during the monsoon season. Methods Seven victims of catastrophic coastal erosion in the Kollam District of Kerala, India, were interviewed from December 2013 to February 2014. The study followed Edmond Husserl’s descriptive phenomenological method. Result These interviews constituted the primary data source. Three main themes with eleven subthemes emerged from these data. The main themes were impact, consequences and recovery. The subthemes were living in constant fear, escaping from the catastrophe; cataclysmic sea waves and their tumultuous behaviour, instant damage and destruction, the epoch of losses; agony and suffering; homelessness-helplessness-sleeplessness mixed with fear;...

Cultural competence is a viewed as a necessary set of skills within nursing, and there is a need ... more Cultural competence is a viewed as a necessary set of skills within nursing, and there is a need for student support in this area. This is particularly important in mental health care, with two skills considered crucial for providing quality care: therapeutic relationship skills and positive attitudes. With the objective of initiating an educational collaboration between two educational institutions, this study examined Australian and Indian undergraduate nursing student's perceived therapeutic relationship skills and stigma attitudes associated with mental illness. Participants were five hundred and fifty-five (n = 555) undergraduate nursing students from two different universities in Indian and Australia. The modified version of the Scale To Assess Therapeutic Relationship (STAR-C) and the Social Distance Scale (SDS) were both used to examine student's perceived therapeutic relationship skills and stigma attitudes. Australian nursing students indicated lower levels of stig...

Married working women face many challenges in their life as career women and as a responsible fam... more Married working women face many challenges in their life as career women and as a responsible family member. Inability to maintain a balance in this dual role makes them frustrated in various aspects which adversely affect their performance and quality of life. Work demands, night duties and poor wages made the staff nurses to shift from clinical side to the education field. Academic field is also facing the same burdens but for other reasons such as class preparation, assignment corrections, class coordination, student counselling and many more. Moreover recent strikes by nurses all over India also throw light to the difficult job adjustment situations ("Nurses go on", 2013) All these show the importance of investigating more to throw light to this area. These entirely made to analyse job satisfaction among married staff nurses and nursing faculty. A descriptive survey was carried out. Simple random sampling was done for the selection of hospitals and purposive sampling f...

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2021

Background Sexual violence is cancerous, and it malignantly affects all strata of our community r... more Background
Sexual violence is cancerous, and it malignantly affects all strata of our community regardless of age, gender, race, ability, and social status. Excellent healthcare service requires professionals who can do a sexual assault examination, collect medico-legal evidence, take photographs of patients' anatomy that was involved in the assault and document what is there and where it is in relation to the victims or perpetrators body or other parts of the crime scene, whether or not it is connected to the crime.

Main text
The objective of this article to orient the professions to the novel trends and approaches in forensic photography, namely e-consent, digital cameras and their accessories, dedicated forensic software, and photographic protocols and procedures.

Conclusion
The inadequate and improper collection, preservation and presentation of evidence can lead to crime scene errors and fewer conviction rates. Training in forensic photography is vital and a game-changer in the sexual assault examination.

Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU, 2015

Problem statement: “A study to assess the effectiveness of academic stress management programme o... more Problem statement: “A study to assess the effectiveness of academic stress management programme on academic stress and academic performance among higher secondary students in a selected school of Udupi district, Karnataka, India” Objective : To evaluate the effectiveness of academic stress management programme on academic stress and academic performance. Materials and Methods: Study was conducted among 96 subjects. Data were collected using Demographic Proforma and Academic stress Rating Scale. Academic performance was assessed by verifying existing school records of formative evaluation test conducted in the month of January and February 2013. Academic stress management programme was provided one hour per day for three consecutive days. Result: Data were analysed using t test and Wilcoxon signed rank test. Result showed a significant difference in pretest post test stress level and academic performance. Conclusion: The findings of the study indicated that academic stress management...

Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU, 2015

Background : Adolescence is a fluctuating period wherein they love to do things as they wish and ... more Background : Adolescence is a fluctuating period wherein they love to do things as they wish and something that gives them a thrill without reasoning and hence they need to be guided. Objective : Determine the knowledge and find the effectiveness of an awareness program on substance abuse and its consequences among the PU College students.Find the association between the pretest knowledge scores and the selected variables like age, gender, monthly income of parents, and education of parents, birth order and history of substance abuse in the family. Method : A Pre-test post-test design was used. Fifty three students from Udupi district was selected by convenient sampling. The tool used was knowledge questionnaire on substance abuse and its consequences. Demographic proforma was used to collect the background information. SPSS software version 16 was used for data analysis. Results : Pretest knowledge shows that 91% of the students had average knowledge and about 2% of the students ha...