A Comparative Study on Patients’ Satisfaction in Health care Service

Nowadays, patients’ satisfaction is an integral part of hospital management across the world. The health care industry in recent years has restructured its service delivery system. The restructuring has focused on finding effective ways to satisfy the needs and desires of the patients. Patients’ satisfaction is a basic requirement for healthcare provider because, the satisfaction related to quality of healthcare is provided by hospitals. The main focus of the study is to measure the patients’ satisfaction in healthcare service provided by the two hospitals. In these two hospitals, a sample of 400 in- patients were selected to collect the primary data through SERVQUAL model and also Donabedian’s framework was used to measure the patients’ satisfaction. The finding of the study shows that the private hospital is performing better in providing service quality and give satisfaction according to the needs of the patients. Keywords: Hospital, Satisfaction, Healthcare, SERVQUAL, Patien

ANTIDIABETIC AND ENZYMATIC ANTIOXIDANT POTENTIAL FROM ETHANOLIC EXTRACTS OF LEAF AND FRUIT OF TRICHOSANTHES DIOICA AND LEAF OF CLITORIA TERNATEA ON DIABETIC RATS INDUCED BY STREPTOZOTOCIN

Objective: To evaluate the antidiabetic and enzymatic antioxidant effects of ethanolic extracts of leaf and fruit of Trichosanthes dioica and leaf of Clitoria ternatea in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats.Methods: Male adult albino rats of Wistar strain equally divided into 11 groups of six rats each were assigned into non-diabetic and diabetic groups. Diabetes was induced in experimental animals by single dose intraperitoneal administration of STZ at a dose of 60 mg/kg body weight. Group I and II which served as non-diabetic and diabetic controls, respectively, received placebo treatment. The diabetic test Groups III to X were treated with either individual and combined ethanolic extracts of plant materials T. dioica and C. ternatea (200 and 400 mg/kg bw) and Group XI was treated with glibenclamide (600 μg/kg bw) for 28 days consecutively. After completion of experimental duration, the animals were sacrificed and collected serum, liver, and kidney were used for the evaluating therapeutic effects on the STZ-induced diabetic rats.Results: The ethanolic extracts of T. dioica (leaf and fruit) and C. ternatea (leaf) and glibenclamide significantly reduced the levels of lipid peroxidation (LPO) and significantly increased the activities of enzymatic antioxidant markers superoxide dismutase, catalase, and glutathione peroxidase in serum, liver, and kidney of diabetic rats.Conclusions: From the present study, it can be concluded that the combined extract of T. dioica fruit and C. ternatea leaf was found to be more effective in treating diabetes and increased activities of enzymatic antioxidants in diabetic-treated rats substantiate that the investigated drugs do extend a clear protective action against LPO in STZ-induced diabetic rats

Antidiabetic,Antihyperlipidaemic and Antioxidant Activity of Oxalis corniculata in Alloxan Induced Diabetic Mice

The present study has been designed to evaluate the antidiabetic,antihyperlipidemic and antioxidative effect of oxalis cornicuata in alloxan induced diabetic mice. Diabetes was induced in swiss albino mice by administration of alloxan monohydrate (120mg/kg body weight,ip). The aqueous extract of oxalis corniculata at a dose 100mg/kg body weight was administered orally at a single dose per day to diabetes induced mice for a period of ten days. The effect of aqueous extract of oxalis corniculata on various biochemical parameters such as blood glucose, lipid profile,liver marker enzymes,lipid peroxidation, enzymic and non enzymic antioxidants were analysed. All these effects were compared with glibenclamide as a reference antidiabetic drug. Oral administration of aqueous extract of oxalis corniculata for ten days elicited significant reduction in blood glucose level, lipid parameters except HDL-c, serum enzymes and significant increase in the level of HDL-C,enzymic and non enzymic antioxidants. Treatment with aqueous extract of oxalis corniculata also reduced the TBARS levels. From the results, the aqueous extract of oxalis corniculata proves to scavenge free radical and found to posses antidiabetic,antihyperlipidemic and antioxidant property against alloxan induced diabetes mellitus. Key words: Antidiabetic,Antihyperlipidaemic,oxalis corniculata, antioxidants