Pratibha Kamath

• PBBSc (N), MSc(N) in OBG
• Professor (Assistant) at Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Introduction: Psychological and sociocognitive behavioral changes occur during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially concerning students' academic activities, which might impact their health and well-being. This could result in dysfunctional behaviors and unhealthy lifestyles, which may indicate a shift in well-being that calls for quick attention and...

Sexual violence can have an overwhelming impact on the victim’s physical and mental health; the consequences include unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Therefore, the examiners must assess victims for possible pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections as a part of the sexual assault examination. This article aims t...

Frequent positional changes and movements during labour is one of the recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO) to prevent prolonged labour, thereby avoiding cesarean sections. However, labour induction, continuous fetal monitoring in supine position and immobilising the women during labour are standard practices in most private hospit...

Frequent positional changes and movements during labour is one of the recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO) to prevent prolonged labour, thereby avoiding cesarean sections. However, labour induction, continuous fetal monitoring in supine position and immobilising the women during labour are standard practices in most private hospit...

Introduction: Menopause is one of the mile stones in women's life that all women at midlife are expected to experience. Objectives: To assess the knowledge and perception of married women regarding menopause, and to find out the association between the knowledge and perception of married women regarding menopause with selected demographic variables...

Aim: The aim of the study is to determine the quality of life by functional assessment, cancer related fatigue and describe the lived experiences of cervical cancer patients undergoing sensitization chemotherapy in a tertiary referral hospital. Background: Patients diagnosed with cancer at an advanced stage of the disease and receiving sensitizatio...

Background: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) has gained increasing attention as a predictor of future diabetes in women. Women with GDM are six times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes later in life than women without GDM. GDM has a recurrence rate of 35–80%, and risk of recurrent GDM is directly associated with previous pregnancies with GDM...

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of nurse-led early initiation of breastfeeding on LATCH breastfeeding assessment. Materials and Method: An evaluative quasi-experimental study was conducted after ethical approval. The setting of the study was the Labor Theatre (LT) of a tertiary referral hospital of Udupi district in sout...

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of nurse-led early initiation of breastfeeding on sleeping pattern of newborns. Materials and Method: An evaluative quasi-experimental study was conducted after ethical approval. The setting of the study was the Labor Theatre (LT) of a tertiary referral hospital of Udupi district in south...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the perceptions of health care personnel regarding noise present in the ambience of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) as well as the attitudes of health care personnel regarding implementation of music in the NICU. Materials and Method: A cross-sectional descriptive survey using interview tech...

Introduction: Perceived self efficacy is defined as people's beliefs about their capabilities to produce designated levels of performance that exercise influence over events that affect their 2 lives. Self efficacy beliefs determine how people feel, motivate them and behave. A strong sense of efficacy regarding neonatal care enhances the mother's s...

Background: Smokeless tobacco consumption is a common tradition especially common in south Asian origin. In spite of its global use and the serious health risks linked to it, the issue of using smokeless tobacco has not gained much attention. (1) Tobacco accounts for around 5 million deaths every year which makes it the second major cause of death...

This descriptive survey was carried out in the Kasturba Hospital, Manipal and Dr. T.M.A. Pai Hospital in Udupi District Karnataka, India during January – February 2013. Purposive sampling technique was used with an attempt to cover the postnatal mothers after both vaginal delivery and cesarean section delivery. The data was collected from 166 postn...

Objective: The main objective of the study was to find the association between smokeless tobacco use and general and reproductive health problems. Materials and methods: The study population consisted of 800 women from selected villages of Peranankila Panchayat, Udupi district. Four villages of the Panchayat were selected through simple random tech...

A comparative study was conducted to assess the stress among working and non-working antenatal mothers in order to develop an information leaflet on antenatal stress management. Materials & Methods: Descriptive survey study was conductedamong working and non-working (30 each) antenatal mothers between the age group of 18-40 years in three local hos...

Introduction: Vaginal candidiasis common problem among pregnant women. According to Jumbo G.T.A et al., during pregnancy women who did not know Candidiasis as a disease were 94.1% and 83.6% of the respondents felt there was no compelling need for treatment while 86.3% did not consider the disease of any serious clinical significance1. Objective: Th...

Purpose: to find out the cardiac invalidism and perceived family support among patients with first attack of MI. The findings of the study can be used by nurses to assess cardiac invalidism, make patients aware of invalidism, improve their accuracy of health perception, reduce unnecessary anxiety and also to give extended psychological support to M...