Publications by authors named "Sami Lama"
Background: Informal caregivers played a significant role in caring for COVID-19 patients during hospitalization in Nepal. This study aimed to understand the experiences of family caregivers attending to their relatives in a COVID-19 hospital in Nepal.
Methods: A descriptive phenomenological approach was adopted to understand the caregiver's experience in supporting their relatives admitted to the COVID-19 hospital of the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS).
Background: Most documented studies have focused on mental health status of health care workers during the pandemic but there are very few studies, focusing on mitigation of mental health problems among nurses.
Aim: To study psychosocial responses to COVID-19 and the effectiveness of intervention among nurses.
Materials And Methods: A mixed-method study was conducted, including 278 nurses from two COVID-19 hospitals of the province by purposive sampling.
Objective: To assess the quality of life among caregivers of children with epilepsy in a tertiary care center of eastern Nepal.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among primary caregivers of children with epilepsy, who accompanied their child in child neurology clinic. Consecutive sampling was done, and 106 respondents were interviewed.
Background And Purpose: Epilepsy is a chronic unpredictable debilitating condition. Epilepsy has great impacts not only on patients with epilepsies but also the persons around them. Burden among caregivers is understudied area.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Mobile phones are becoming increasingly indispensable in daily life of the students which has resulted in mobile phone dependence. The objective of the study was to find the prevalence of mobile phone dependence among undergraduate students of a medical college of Eastern Nepal.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2016 to March 2017 on a total of 390 undergraduate students aged between 17 and 25 years using stratified sampling technique.
Aim: The aim was to assess the level of knowledge and practice on physical restraints.
Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was adopted.
Methods: A total enumerative sampling technique was used to select 117 nurses working in ICU, medical wards, psychiatric ward and emergency unit of Tertiary Care Hospital, Nepal.
Background: Hepatitis B is a dreadful infectious disease and a major global health problem. Health-care workers including clinical students are more vulnerable to such infections and non-sterile occupational exposures as their daily activities are closely related to patient's blood and body fluids.
Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted at B.