This study was on patterns of use of clinic facilities by cardiac patients at coronary care unit-national hospital of Sri Lanka. Gathering information on socio-demographic characteristics of patients, evaluating availability ...

An educational intervention on health knowledge and practices was introduced to a group of parents through their school going children in years 7 and 8. The knowledge and practices of the parents were assessed before and ...

A descriptive study to assess some components of quality of patient care was carried out over a period of three months in general medical wards of NHSL. Information provided to the patients at the time of discharge with ...

The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal tract colonization with antibiotic resistant enterococci at ward entry and to study the incidence and risk factors for nosocomial acquisition ...

Objective of this prospective obstruction study to detect increasing maternal age increases the risk of operative delivery and to investigate such a relationship is due to maternal age itself or due to medical and obstetric ...

The total of thousand and fifty eight subjects were examined consisted 496 males and 562 females. Number of subjects detected with leukoplakia was 71. The prevalence of leukoplakia was 6.7 per cent. The leukoplakia lesions ...

Mothers presenting in labour were screened for two sexually transmitted disease pathogens neisseria gonorrhoeae and chlamydia trachomatis.It revealed an incidence 0.25 per cent gonococcal infection in pregnancy and 0.25 ...

Nearly 70 percent of mothers had a good basic knowledge on vaccine preventable diseases and nearly 90 percent had a good basic knowledge on age appropriate immunization. However, only 50 percent of mothers had a good ...

Overall prevalence of breast feeding as at time of interview was 94. 63 per cent. There was a marked decline after 5 months of age. All mothers had trained assistance at delivery. 50 per cent had initiated breast feeding ...

Nutrition is a crucial aspect of care of infants which has a lasting impact on the subsequent life events of an individual. In the context of Sri Lanka, complementary feeding practices of infants is considered a priority ...