Thimira Amarasinghe

University of Colombo · Department of Basic Sciences and Social Sciences for Nursing

Health promoting life style is the main strategy to improve the health status of an individual. The objective of this study was to assess the health promoting lifestyle and its determinants among undergraduate students. A descriptive cross- sectional study was conducted among 380 students in Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeni...

Pharmacotherapy is vital in the management of chronic hypertension. Different antihypertensives are prescribed for the patients with hypertension. Mainly antihypertensives are prescribed in patterns of mono-drug therapy or multi-drug therapy. This study was conducted to identify the commonly prescribed antihypertensives and their pattern in Sri Lan...

Chronic hypertension accounts for about 50% of deaths due to heart diseases and strokes. Approximately 40% of the adults above 25 years had been diagnosed with hypertension. People from lower-income countries are more prone to get hypertension which leads to increased risk of heart and renal diseases. This study aimed to identify the characteristic...

Recommended lifestyle and good mental/physical status in childhood are factors that facilitate lifelong health. This study investigated changes in the lifestyle of Japanese rural children over the past 15 years during which, tobacco-related education and lifestyle issues have significantly changed. This descriptive cross-sectional study was conduct...

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is understood as the individual perception of health in the context of the culture and value system in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, and concerns. The main objective of this study was to measure the HRQoL of the diabetic patients attending a National Hospital in Sri Lanka. A des...

Dengue hemorrhagic fever is characterized by plasma leakage selectively, sometimes complicated with bleeding manifestations. Hemophilia is an inherited coagulation disorder. There is less evidence on consequences of dengue hemorrhagic patients with hemophilia. This is a case report of a dengue patient with hemophilia A, managed at a tertiary care h...

In Sri Lankan context, dental caries, periodontal diseases and oral cancers are the common oral diseases with a higher prevalence. The objective of this study was to assess the awareness on prevention of common oral diseases among non-dental undergraduate students of University of Peradeniya.

Lifestyle patterns which are initiated in the childhood can lead to the occurrence of various mental and physical disease conditions in later adulthood. Thus, the objective of this study was to describe the mental and physical health status of the school children in Tagami Town of Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

A cross sectional survey on the lifestyle and health status changes in the students of the Tagami town of Niigata Prefecture - Japan. It compares the changes in a study done in 2002 and later in 2017