Alagaraja, R.; Dushanthy Jeney, C.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
Education is one of the most fundamental human activities and is an essential social
institution. Durkheims viewpoints of education as the socialization of the next generation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on ...
Devanesan, C.W.; Samuel, E.S.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
Leadership is an art and discipline of guiding, directing, motivating, and inspiring a group
or organization toward the achievement of common goals. There are several different
leadership styles exhibited by the leaders ...
Blood donation can save a million lives. A reduction in the numbers of potential donors
was observed during the COVID 19 pandemic in Sri Lanka, where the need for an
accelerated process of blood collection has been a ...
Children under institutionalised care are vulnerable to develop mental health
abnormalities. This study aimed to assess the mental health of the children in child
welfare centers and identify the influencing factors. ...
The cervical spine X-ray is the most commonly performed projection X-ray examination
in patients for the initial diagnosis of spinal complaints, tumours, fractures, and
degenerative pathologies. The radiosensitive ...
The modern trend in the preparation of elite sportsmen is to proceed scientifically and
take the help of allied sciences to achieve top-level performance in respective sports
and games. The objective of the study was ...
Dilaksana, R.; Menaka, S.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
Nursing profession plays a significant role in treating the patient at hospitals. They are
expected to play several roles such as educator, counselor, health care facilitator and
patient advocator. Currently, several ...
Aarabi, K.; Murugananthan, K.; Pirasath, S.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
Scrub typhus is a mite-borne acute febrile illness caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. It is
an emerging infectious disease in the northern region of Sri Lanka. Kilinochchi district
is predominantly an agriculture-based ...
Sarmila, V.; Murugananthan, K.; Pirasath, S.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a common cause of enterically transmitted acute viral hepatitis
in humans and it remains as a major public health issue in developing countries. There is
no published study on the prevalence ...
Athukorala, G.V.; Joniton, S.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
With the outbreak of Covid-19, university students had a heightened risk of experiencing
mental stress. The study aims to elaborate female students views and their coping
strategies with the mental stress status prior, ...
Kamalarupan, L.; Sivapalan, K.; Fernando, M.U.R.N.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
Premenstrual symptoms are recurrent, cyclic disorder in women at reproductive age.
There are wide spectrums of physical and emotional symptoms that occur regularly
during one to two weeks before the start of each ...
Ajanthan, H.A.A.; Kalki, P.; Coonghe, P.A.D.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
Over the counter or non-prescription drugs are defined as a group of medicines which
can be obtained without a valid prescription. Superintend pharmacists are the healthcare
professionals who are often approached by ...
Anfas, M.J.M.; Kamalarupan, L.; Coonghe, P.A.D.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
Road traffic accident is considered as one of the common public health problems around
the world and it leads to fatal or non-fatal injuries. Especially younger generation gets
affected to a greater extent due to the ...
Bandara, A.G.D.I.; Thuvaragan, S.; Guruparan, M.; Surenthirakumaran, R.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
Herbs are used in the complementary and alternative medicines and they are used by patients
having non-communicable diseases such as hypertension. The objective of the study was
to describe the practice of herbal usage ...
Ramesh, K.A.; Ramakrishnan, R.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
Grassroots sport teaches how youths to lead healthy lifestyles early in their life and how
to continue participating in recreational activities throughout their life. The aim of this
pilot study focuses to develop ...
Thusthika, A.; Kudagammana, S.T.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
Oral rehydration solution plays a major role in the management of diarrhoea at the
home setting. Though the effectiveness of oral rehydration solution is proven, the
benefit depends on proper usage. This in turn depends ...
Thabotharan, D.; Coonghe, P.A.D.; Pathirana, H.P.Y.C.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
COVID-19 has been started to spread worldwide since December 2019. It was severely
affected all countries including Sri Lanka. Nurses play a major role in caring the
COVID-19 patients. As future nurses, nursing students ...
Narmadha, S.; Kamalarupan, L.; Nithlavarnan, A.(University of Jaffna, 2022)
Bullying among children and adolescents is recognized as a significant global public
health problem, as it has serious health consequences and behavioural changes. The
prevalence of bullying among school-going adolescents ...
In the modern era, social media have a potential impact on the student community,
and it is essential that every student uses the social media responsibly as future health
professionals. Lack of social media literacy ...
Self-medication refers to use of medicines to treat self-diagnosed diseases. Self medication of prescription-only medicines may lead to serious adverse effects on health.
Allied Health Sciences students were included in ...