Coggon, D.; Ntani, G.; Palmer, K. T.; Warnakulasuriya, S.S.P(2018)
Background: Wide international variation in the prevalence of disabling low back pain (LBP) among working populations is not explained by known risk factors. It would be useful to know whether the drivers of this variation ...
Coggon, D.; Ntani, G.; Walker-Bone, K.; Palmer, K. T.; Felli, V. E.; Harari, R.; Warnakulasuriya, S.S.P(2017)
Study design—Cross-sectional survey with longitudinal follow-up
Objectives—To test the hypothesis that pain which is localised to the low back differs epidemiologically from that which occurs simultaneously or close in ...
Warnakulasuriya, S.; Jone, R. P.; Wickramasinghe, A. R.; Sathiakumar, N.(2011)
Introduction Work related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs)
have significant impacts in labour intensive occupational groups.
Lifting, moving, transferring and repositioning of patients and long hours spent standing ...
To review recent data to identify the factors influencing the effective self-management of Diabetes Mellitus (DM). A review of the published literature on self-management of diabetes was performed. This involved searching ...
Purpose: Nurses play a major role in providing support to individual patients with long term illnesses. However, it is notable that the effectiveness of nurses providing care in improving the health outcomes on patients ...
Objective: To describe the nutritional status and the factors influencing nutritional status of grade five school children in Manmuni North educational division Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka. Methods: A descriptive ...
Kisokanth, G.; Ilankoon, I. M. P. S.; Arulanandem, K.; Goonewardena, C. S. E.; Sundaresan, K. T.(2016)
Background Hypertension is an important public health challenge and is a major risk factor for many other diseases. Lack of knowledge on the dangers of untreated hypertension, the benefits of better control and poor ...
The poor lifestyles, rapid urbanization, lack of knowledge, unsatisfactory attitude and practices among patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM) have resulted for the steady increase in the prevalence of DM in Asian countries. ...
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common non-communicable disease (NCD) with numerous short and long term complications. Treatment of diabetes-related complications is costly to the patient and also to the national ...
Kisokanth, G.; Ilankoon, I. M. P. S.; Arulanandem, K.; Sundaresan, K.T.; Goonewardena, C.S.E.; Joseph, J.(2018)
Objective: Hypertension is an important public health challenge in both developing and developed countries. It is one of the commonest causes of death in Sri Lanka. The patients’ perception, beliefs and attitudes about ...
Kisokanth, G.; Prathapan, S.; Indrakumar, J.; Ilankoon, I. M. P. S.(2018)
Ideal dietary practices and diet patterns for the better self-management of diabetes mellitus (DM) remains to be determined. This study was aimed at determining the diet related factors for good glycaemic control among ...
Kisokanth, G.; Prathapan, S.; Indrakumar, J.; Ilankoon, I. M. P. S.; Arulanandem, K.(2018)
This study aimed to identify the determinants of good glycemic control among patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM) in Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka. A case control study was conducted among 339 patients with DM in medical ...
Arulanandem, K.; Jayawickramaraja, P. T.; Hettige, S.; Ramanayake, R. P. J. C.; Kisokanth, G.(2018)
The global and national ageing population led to much health, social and economic concerns. Thus, present study aimed at addressing the health care needs of elders and assessing the availability of health, social services ...
Kisokanth, G.; Prathapan, S.; Indrakumar, J.; Ilankoon, I. M. P. S.(2018)
Objective: To describe the validation process of an educational material for diabetes self-management education among patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). Methods: Methodological study, developed in three phases: ...