Sandra Roshni Monteiro

SRM University, Andhra Pradesh · School of Liberal Arts and Basic Sciences

Background This study aimed to establish the effectiveness of a hypertension knowledge education intervention among Indian adolescents to foster lifestyle changes aimed at preventing hypertension. Methods The Hypertension Knowledge Test (HKT) was used to assess changes in knowledge using a repeated-measures one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Th...

Background/Aim The objective of the paper was to develop a comprehensive “Adolescence Stress Scale” and to examine different psychometric issues in the development, initial validation, and standardization of this scale. Method Exploratory factor analysis was conducted on the data procured from a sample of 634 (11–18 years) school-going adolescents...

Background The alarming rise in prevalence of hypertension warrants psychosocial methods supplementing pharmacotherapy for better management and prevention of cardiac emergencies. The objective of the study was to assess the differential impact of the form and frequency of knowledge intervention on management of primary hypertension. Materials and...

The objectives of this study are to develop a self-report scale to measure social support, evaluate its core structure and study various psychometric properties in the development of this scale. The entire process of developing and validating the scale is described in three phases. These comprise item writing and content validation in Phase I, vali...

The high prevalence of hypertension and associated risk factors among school children indicate that hypertension is not restricted to older age but stems in childhood itself. Cognition related to the disease is a primary step in warranting its manifestation. Hence, this study aims to explore the efficacy of a 30-minute audio-visual hypertension kno...

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Introduction: Organizations are in constant endeavor to find ways to enhance their employees' productivity and efficiency. In this context, the present study attempted to examine if mindfulness and perceived control of internal states along with major demographic variables act as indicators of work engagement in front-liner employees. Method: In th...

The potential for children to be used as agents of change in health research and practice is being increasingly valued. To reach this objective, it is foremost to gauge children’s perceptions about health, based on which future pathways to health promotion programs may be built which are easily comprehensible to children. Therefore, this study was...