Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Concerning COVID-19 in Nepal.

Background: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) severely affects patients with chronic diseases. Adequate knowledge, attitudes, and practice related to COVID-19 is associated with decrease morbidity and mortality. Therefore, this aimed to assess knowledge, attitudes, and practice toward COVID-19 disease among chronic diseases patients visiting tertiary hospitals in Kathmandu.

Institutional ethnography of hemodialysis care: Perspectives of multidisciplinary health care teams in Nepal.

Background: Hemodialysis is the most commonly used renal replacement therapy for end-stage renal disease. The collaborative efforts of multidisciplinary teams comprising nephrologists, nurses, pharmacists, and dietitians play a crucial role in enhancing patient outcomes, improving the quality of care, and reducing treatment costs. However, various factors such as healthcare cost reduction, limited resources, profit-driven systems, organizational structure, and involvement in patient care decisions impact the provision of hemodialysis care by the multidisciplinary teams.

Textual Organization of Hemodialysis Nursing Practice: An Institutional Ethnography.

Background: Nursing today deals with organizational changes and reforms within the increased demands of care amid competing resources. In some developing countries, dealing with text documents is a challenge in hemodialysis service organizations. This study aimed to explicate the social organization of textual nursing practices in a hemodialysis unit of a public university hospital in Nepal.

Anxiety and Depression among Patients with Thyroid Function Disorders.

Background: Psychiatric comorbidities are common in thyroid disorder patients and complicate patients' life quality as well as disease management. We aimed to explore prevalence of anxiety and depression and identify associated characteristics among patients with thyroid function disorder.

Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 129 thyroid disorder patients aged ?20 years.