Journal of Public Health Nursing

A systematic framework to support the returning to school during chemotherapy of adolescents with cancer.

Pawanrat Chinboot — 2024-04-25

Returning to school is the important part that allows adolescent cancer patients to return to normal life, continue chemotherapy following the treatment schedul, and increase the chances of cancer recovery. Returning to school during chemotherapy of adolescents with cancer comes from the patient's own needs, and it's not the same for getting back because the patient has limitations in learning and doing various activities. Getting back to school requires help from the surrounding people. The purpose of this article is to describe the findings from the study of returning to school experience during chemotherapy treatment of adolescents with cancer connected to the reasons and necessity of going back to school, including the consequence of the returning to school during chemotherapy. A systematic framework was used to describe the inputs, processes, output, feedback, and leading the support for adolescent cancer patients to returning to school during chemotherapy, including the nursing role.

A study on the treatment effects and adverse drug reaction of Metta-osot cannabis oil from medical records in end stage cancer patients received treatment at cannabis clinic. Thai Traditional and Integrated Medicine Hospital ,Bangkok

Mrs.Ratchadaphon Buamahakul — 2024-04-25

This research was conducted for study the treatment effects, adverse reactions and compare the quality of life of patients who received Metta-osot cannabis oil from medical record in end stage cancer at cannabis clinic. The objective of this study was to promote the proper use of cannabis oil. The research method was to collect retrospective data from medical records. There were 274 people received Metta-Osot cannabis oil between August 31 , 2020 – January 30, 2023 , both males and females aged 20-90 years. We collected information from The quality of life data records (EQ - 5D - 5L, ESAS) and adverse drug reaction data records.

The results showed that insomnia, loss of appetite, tiredness/fatigue, sick body/mind nausea and vomiting was significantly improved. Adverse drug reactions were reported in 10 patients (9 %). The most common adverse reaction was dizziness. Therefore, it could be concluded that Metta-Osot cannabis oil would be useful in improving the quality of life for cancer patients in long-term palliative stage and it was safe to some extent. There were limitations in data collection from retrospective research. Therefore, this research may need to be extended for clinical practice in order to increase the credibility of further research.

Paresis-paralysis herbal drug formulas of the folk healer Prasit Keawmanee

Tanavan Sriamonruttanakul — 2024-04-25

Abstract

This research aimed to study the drug formulas in the paresis-paralysis treatment of Prasit Kaewmanee, 84 years old, the Nakhon Si Thammarat folk healer. The medicinal recipes, tastes, and therapeutic uses were recorded using the computer software in a tabular form, then consider the properties of the drug and process the frequency according to 9 tastes. The results showed that all 12 formulations consisted of a total of 111 herbal drugs. The formula with the most components is 51 medicinal drugs for the patients with stiff tongue syndrome that had only been less than 3 months. The formula with the less components was only 2 herbal drugs for the patients with fainting, catching in the tongue, hardened chin (It's a hard tongue symptom that doesn't have a tip numbness or weakness of the toes). On average, 1 formula contains 14.7 herbal drugs. The drug used consists of up to 5 formulas, namely Epsom salts, as a laxative, followed by drugs that are included in 4 formulas, namely Black Cumin (Nigella Saliva Linn.), as a the blood nourishment. There are 16 herbal drugs in 3 formulas, 26 herbal drugs in 2 formulas, and 67 herbal drugs in 1 formula and 3 most commonly used medicinal tastes, ranked 1, 2 and 3 as bitter, spicy and astringent, 29.91, 28.13 and 9.38 percent, respectively. The properties of the drug cover the properties of every drug formula. Because one drug has properties covering many aspects, therefore, the analysis of the properties of the drug to be consistent with the properties of the formula will become the drug that corresponds to all the symptoms of the disease. Formula that uses less drugs for paralytic ileus show that the drug properties correspond to the symptom, while the many drugs formulation corresponds to a combination of many symptoms. It can be seen that the arrangement of medicines according to the recipes that the folk healers have recorded is a Tacit Knowledge which deserves to be developed into explicit knowledge for the benefit and cost in the development of evidence-based pharmacopoeia.

Prevalence and Risk Factors Related to Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders Among Dependent Patients in Nong Suea District, Pathum Thani Province

Pirasut Rodanant — 2024-04-25

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This research is an observational study. Data comprising demographic characteristics, extra- and intraoral risk factors and oral lesions were collected by interview and oral examination in order to survey the prevalence of oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs) and its risk factors among 183 dependent patients in Nong Suea district. The results revealed the prevalence of oral lesions of 28.5%. Among these, there were 16.9% of moderate-to-high risk of malignant transformation lesions which mostly found on soft palate and floor of mouth. Of all, the prevalence of OPMDs was 1.6%. Sunlight exposure was found to be significantly related to moderate-to-high risk of malignant transformation lesions (p-value = 0.008). Descriptive analysis revealed that level of dependent status, denture wearing status and dry mouth condition were dominant risk factors highly relating to the occurrence of OPMDs. Researchers expected that these results might raise the awareness in surveillance and prevention of the occurrence of oral cancer in dependent population.

Influence of Selective Factors on the Rate of Infection with Coronavirus 2019 of Professional Nurses at Samut Prakan Hospital: A Retrospective Study.

Nettip Charoensuk — 2024-04-25

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The purpose of this retrospective research was to study the influence of the factors of age, body mass index, chronic disease, family members infected with the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), place of work (department), working hours per week, perceived susceptibility to infection with COVID-19, and perceived barriers to COVID-19 prevention on the rate of infection with COVID-19 of professional nurses at Samut Prakan Hospital.

The sample was 250 professional nurses employed at Samut Prakan Hospital, of whom 125 had been infected with COVID-19 and 125 of whom remained uninfected. The research instrument was a questionnaire, developed by the researcher, which consisted of 4 parts, 1) a personal data form, 2) working hours per week record, 3) perceived susceptibility to infection with COVID-19 and 4) perceived barriers to preventing infection with COVID-19. The content validity of the questionnaire was examined by five experts. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients of parts 3 and 4 were 0.72 and 0.72, respectively. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, standard deviation and multiple logistic regression.

The results showed that the factors of place of work and working hours per week could significantly predict the rate of infection with COVID-19 of professional nurses at Samut Prakan Hospital, accounting for 15.3% of variance. Professional nurses who worked in the internal medicine department were 3.73 times more likely to become infected with COVID-19 than those who worked in the surgery department (OR = 3.73; 95% CI = 1.88 – 7.37; p = .001). Professional nurses who worked more than 40 hours per week had a rate of COVID-19 infection that was 3.73 times greater than those whose working hours per week were less than or equal to 40 hours per week (OR = 2.36, 95% CI = 1.21 – 4.59, p < .005).

Keywords: Coronavirus 2019, Professional nurses, working hours per week, perceived susceptibility of infected by Coronavirus 2019, perceived barrier to COVID 2019 prevention.

Worker’s satisfaction on mobile health check-up service of Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital

Nijsa Kamsook — 2024-04-25

Mobile health check-up service is a service for annual health check-ups, risk-based health checks or periodic health checks for working age groups with the purpose to look for worker’s health problem. This descriptive study aimed to study the workers’ satisfaction on mobile health check-up service of Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital. The sample comprised of 402 workers aged 18-60 years old, who received mobile health check-up service selected by the simple random sampling from 5 companies. Data were collected by using the online questionnaire consist of subjects’ demographics, service quality, perceived service value, the prevention and control of the spread of covid-19, Worker’s satisfaction on mobile health check-up service of Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital and repurchase intention. Data were analyzed by using the descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, Fisher’s Exact test and Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis.

The study showed that overall of the workers’ satisfaction on mobile health check-up service and the intentions of repurchase was at high level (M = 4.10 ± 0.36, M = 4.02 ± 0.57). Multiple logistic regression analysis indicated that the perceived service quality in tangible dimension (OR 3.72, 95%CI = 1.21-11.43), the expected service quality in assurance dimension (OR 13.72, 95% CI = 1.35-139.49) and empathy dimension (OR 9.89, 95% CI = 1.22-80.47), perceived service value (OR 2.70, 95% CI: 1.12-6.51) and the prevention and control of the spread of covid-19 in mobile health check-up (OR 2.53, 95% CI =1.18-5.41) were significantly related with the workers’ satisfaction on mobile health check-up service of Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital.

Findings suggest that the administrators should be established measures to ensure quality and standard of mobile health check-up service as relate to the vehicle segments, equipment and tools, and medical personnel. Measures to prevent and control the spread of covid-19, which can make customer feel confident and satisfied in service should also be emphasized. In addition, the occupational health nurses should support and explain the necessity and benefits of health examinations to workers.