Experiences of frontline nurses caring COVID-19 patients - A thematic analysis.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic exerts a considerable impact on the healthcare setting and healthcare provider's personal and social life. Adjusting to an entirely new working environment may have added challenges for the nurses without having infectious disease expertise. The study aimed to understand and describe the experiences of nurses taking care of COVID-19 patients in a tertiary care Hospital.

Effectiveness of a Disease Management Program (DMP) in controlling the progression of Chronic Kidney Disease among hypertensives and diabetics.

Background: The occurrence rate of stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD) will be 151 per million population in India in the coming years. Comorbidities like diabetes mellitus and hypertension are the usual triggers of CKD. Hence this study aimed to control the progression of CKD and to note the effectiveness of a structured education program that would help in the prevention of complications related to diabetes and hypertension.

Needs, challenges, and coping strategies among primary caregivers of schizophrenia patient: A systematic review & meta-synthesis.

Introduction: Deinstitutionalization and rising psychiatric care in society have led to an increase in the role of caregivers of persons diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Objective: The objective of this systematic review was to identify and synthesize qualitative research findings that explored the needs, challenges, and coping strategies among the primary caregivers of a schizophrenia patient.

Methodology: The electronic databases namely PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), EMBASE, Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, and ClinicalKey were searched to identify relevant articles published from 2005 to October 2021.