MyMedR

Displaying all 6 publications

Abstract:

Sort:

Mental Trauma Affliction and Infliction: Punishment and Atonement for Sins?

Syed Hassan ST, Jamaludin H, Latiff LA, Raman RA, Khaw WF

Bull Emerg Trauma, 2014 Oct;2(4):139-40.
PMID: 27162885
Acquired Brain Injury; Do We Need to Care?

Syed Hassan ST, Jamaludin H, Mohd Riji H, Raman RA, Fei KW

Bull Emerg Trauma, 2013 Oct;1(4):137-8.
PMID: 27162844
A cross-sectional study on nurses' oral care practice for mechanically ventilated patients in Malaysia

Soh KL, Soh KG, Japar S, Raman RA, Davidson PM

J Clin Nurs, 2011 Mar;20(5-6):733-42.
PMID: 21320202 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03579.x

This study sought to determine the strategies, methods and frequency of oral care provided for mechanically ventilated patients in Malaysian intensive care units. The study also described nurses' attitudes to providing oral care and their knowledge of the mode of transmission of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Knowledge, Prevention Strategies, and Intervention Tactics: Traumas and Motor Vehicle Accidents

Syed Hassan ST, Jamaludin H, Raman RA, A Latiff L, Mohd Riji H

Bull Emerg Trauma, 2013 Jan;1(1):3-4.
PMID: 27162813
Nurses' knowledge of heart failure self-care education: A systematic review

Chi SY, Soh KL, Raman RA, Ong SL, Soh KG

Nurs Crit Care, 2022 Feb 02.
PMID: 35108749 DOI: 10.1111/nicc.12758

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of heart failure is increasing, associated with high mortality and rehospitalization rate. The complexity and progressive clinical syndromes of heart failure have massively affected patients' quality of life. Heart failure self-care education provided by nurses seems to improve patients' knowledge and the clinical outcomes despite being in critical care or community settings. Nurses often gained heart failure self-care knowledge from formal and informal educational resources. However, the extent of knowledge acquired by nurses needs to be investigated before patient education could be successfully carried out.
AIMS: This systematic review identified the nurses' knowledge of heart failure self-care education according to the topics and factors that would be substantial to increase their knowledge.
METHODS: Literature resources from Medline, CINAHL, Ovid, Science Direct, Scopus and Google Scholar from 2002 to 2020 were studied and reviewed. This systematic review included nurses that take care of heart failure patients and studies that measured their knowledge score. The quality of all studies was determined using the JBI SUMARI Critical Appraisal tool, and a narrative approach was used to analyse the results.
RESULTS: 15 studies were selected, involving 1644 nurses that had experience in taking care of heart failure patients. The overall mean ± SD score of nurses' knowledges was unsatisfactory with 12.1 ± 2.7 to 17.3 ± 1.4, respectively, and it showed a significant increase in the level of knowledge after attending a heart failure speciality course or educational intervention. The majority of the nurses were uncertain about the deteriorating symptoms and fluid management for heart failure patients.
CONCLUSIONS: The nurses' level of knowledge was unsatisfactory, and therefore they need more in-depth learning and understanding of the heart failure topic through educational interventional.
RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Critical care nurses needed to have in-depth knowledge to recognize symptoms of deterioration in heart failure patients, especially during the decompensated stage.
Depression, anxiety and quality of life in stroke survivors and their family caregivers: A pilot study using an actor/partner interdependence model

Wan-Fei K, Hassan STS, Sann LM, Ismail SIF, Raman RA, Ibrahim F

Electron Physician, 2017 Aug;9(8):4924-4933.
PMID: 28979724 DOI: 10.19082/4924

BACKGROUND: Depression and anxiety are common in stroke survivors as well as their family caregivers. However, it is not known whether each person's emotional distress contributes to their partner's quality of life (QOL).
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine the effect of depression and anxiety on QOL in stroke survivor-caregiver dyads using dyadic analysis technique - the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM).
METHODS: This was a cross-sectional pilot study with a total of 30 participating dyads (30 stroke survivors and 30 family caregivers) from Hospital Rehabilitasi Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This pilot study was conducted over a period of 3 months, between December 2014 and February 2015. Depression and anxiety were assessed using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). QOL was assessed using the Short Form-12 Health Survey (SF-12). All analyses were carried out using IBM SPSS version 22. Dyadic data were analysed using multilevel modelling (MLM).
RESULTS: Depression was uniquely associated with an individual's own QOL. Survivors and caregivers with higher depression had poorer physical component summary (PCS) scores and mental component summary (MCS) scores. Stroke survivor's depression exerted a significant actor effect on their PCS (b=-1.42, p=0.001) and MCS (b=-1.52, p<0.001). Caregiver's depression exerted a significant actor effect on their PCS (b=-2.53, p<0.001) and MCS (b=-1.51, p=0.004). Caregivers' anxiety negatively influenced their own MCS (b=-0.58, p=0.031). Furthermore, depression exerted a significant partner effect on PCS in stroke survivors (b=-1.19, p=0.003). Caregivers' depression was also related to their stroke survivors' poorer QOL, particularly PCS.
CONCLUSION: The findings suggest that depression affects the QOL of both stroke survivors and caregivers, not only emotionally but also physically. This dyadic study also has evidence pointing to depression in caregivers and its association with stroke survivors' physical QOL.