Publications by authors named "Lalitha Krishnasamy"

Clustering in wireless sensor networks plays a vital role in solving energy and scalability issues. Although multiple deployment structures and cluster shapes have been implemented, they sometimes fail to produce the expected outcomes owing to different geographical area shapes. This paper proposes a clustering algorithm with a complex deployment structure called radial-shaped clustering (RSC).

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Background: Coercion is not uncommon phenomenon among mental health service users during their admission into psychiatric hospital. Research on perceived coercion of psychiatric patients is limited from India.

Aim: To investigate perceived coercion of psychiatric patients during admission into a tertiary care psychiatric hospital.

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Nurses caring for psychiatric patients may have to face violent emotions and unpredictable behaviour which can be quite stressful. A stress management program may equip nurses with skills to cope effectively with the stress. A one group pre-test and post-test design was adopted to test this hypothesis.

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