Effects of a dietary intervention on cardiometabolic risk and food consumption in a workplace.

Background: Worksite-based health programs have shown positive impacts on employee health and have led to significant improvements in cardiovascular risk factor profiles. We aimed to determine the effect of cafeteria intervention on cardio-metabolic risk factors diet in a worksite setting (Dhulikhel Hospital) in Nepal.

Methods: In this one-arm pre-post intervention study, we recruited 277 non-pregnant hospital employees aged 18-60 with prediabetes or pre-hypertension.

Knowledge and attitude regarding the COVID-19 pandemic among undergraduate health science students of Nepal: An online survey.

Objectives: This study aims to assess health science students' knowledge and attitude about COVID-19 epidemiology, management, and prevention; and the association of knowledge and attitude with various sociodemographic characteristics.

Methods: An online survey was done among 524 undergraduate health science students using a pre-tested questionnaire across 19 health science institutions in Nepal from 30 June to 11 August 2021. All subjects were enrolled in the study after informed consent.

Factors associated with self-care behaviours among people with hypertension residing in Kathmandu: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: To determine the prevalence and associated factors of self-care behaviours among people with hypertension in the Kathmandu district of Nepal.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Municipalities of Kathmandu district, Nepal.

Health-related quality of life measured by SF-36 among postdelivery mothers attending maternal and child health clinic in Eastern Nepal: a cross-sectional study.

Unlabelled: Assessing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and its associated factors is essential for providing adequate healthcare and developing necessary interventions in women postdelivery. This study intended to find out the HRQoL score and related factors among women postdelivery in Nepal.

Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study using nonprobability sampling conducted at a Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Clinic in Nepal.

Low Birth Weight among Deliveries, and Adolescent and Advanced Maternal Age Pregnancy.

Background: We did this study to evaluate the prevalence of low birth weight among deliveries, adolescent pregnancy and advanced maternal age pregnancy. We also assessed the factors affecting the low birth weight among institutional deliveries at the level of primary hospital.

Methods: A hospital-based retrospective cross-sectional study was done in Grahun Primary Hospital of Syangja, Nepal using data maintained in register book over last five years.