Vishnu Renjith

Engel's Model as a Conceptual Framework in Nursing Research: Well-being and Disability of Patients With Migraine

Exploring, selecting, and utilizing an appropriate conceptual framework is a vital step in development of a research work. This article discusses the application of “Engels model on biopsychosocial well-being,” in exploring the relationship between biopsychosocial well-being and disability of patients with migraine headaches.

Clinical profile and functional disability of patients with migraine

Background: Migraine is a common disabling primary headache disorder. Globally, migraine was ranked as the seventh highest cause of disability. Aim: The aim of the study was to explore the clinical profile and functional disability of patients with migraine. Settings and Design: A cross-sectional survey was conducted at the neurology outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital in Karnataka. Materials and Methods: Using a consecutive sampling technique, 60 patients were recruited for the study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Results: Majority of the participants were in the age group of 18–40 years with a mean age 35.22 years. There was a female preponderance with 70% of study participants being females. The various symptoms experienced by patients include throbbing pain (90%), photophobia (93.3%), phonophobia (85%), nausea (76.7%), and vomiting (41.7%). Most of the subjects (73.3%) under the study belonged to moderate to severe levels of functional disability. About 53.3% of patients were in the category of episodic migraine and 46.7% were in the category of chronic migraine. Conclusion: Migraine is associated with moderate to severe functional disability. Frequency of migraine has a positive correlation with the levels of disability/migraine disability assessment scores of migraineurs.

Forensic Clinical Photography: A Game Changer in Medicolegal Investigation and Forensic Science

Photography is a critical factor in solving out the mysteries behind the crimes by giving out critical information applicable to criminal, legal investigation. It was initially based on manually operated camera and film strips and later adopted digital technology for recording and storing the visuals. Digital evidence can show the relative position of evidence at the scene, establish the relative dimension of the evidence and also cross compliment other evidence collection techniques. The inadequate and improper collection, preservation and presentation of evidence can lead to crime scene errors and fewer conviction rates. Training in forensic photography is vital, and a game changer in the medico-legal investigations.

Improving nursing research reporting: a guide to reporting guidelines

Enhancing the quality of the nursing research reporting through structured approach is the key in solving the problems related to reporting. Complete and transparent reporting of nursing research with the standard guidelines such as, The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE), Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT), Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), Standards for reporting qualitative research (SRQR), Consensus-based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline (CARE) and Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ)will ensure the transparency through the minimum set of items required to reflect what was one done? What are the outcomes? What are the benefits? What are the issues that bring bias and what are the harms? The ‘Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research’ (EQUATOR) network and ‘Penelope Research’ also helps the authors to solve problem of finding out of relevant reporting guidelines. Whatever may be the reason writing and publishing high impact nursing and health research is the need of the day.