Browsing by Author "Liyanage, N."

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Child abuse: the role of psychiatrists
(Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists, 2015) Rodrigo, A.; Liyanage, N.
Cognitive behavioral therapy management of a patient with atypical Anorexia Nervosa.
(Hindawi Pub. Corp., 2019) Liyanage, N.; Suraweera, C.; Rodrigo, A.
Eating disorders are becoming more common in nonwestern societies and some of these presentations are atypical variants such as atypical anorexia nervosa. There is very little data on how to treat these patients. This case study reports the treatment of a young adult female in Sri Lanka who presented with atypical anorexia nervosa and moderate depressive disorder. She was successfully treated with nine sessions of enhanced cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT-E). According to our knowledge this is the first case report that describes the management of a patient with atypical anorexia nervosa using psychological therapy specifically adapted to nonwestern context.
Disaster and mental health: the role of Sri Lankan psychiatrists
(Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists, 2017) Rodrigo, A.; Liyanage, N.
The Impact of Physical Evidences on Customer Store Loyalty with Special Reference to Supermarket Industry in Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Thilina, D.K.; Liyanage, N.
In Sri Lanka, when concentrating on previous researches on supermarket environment, the main focus has gone towards how far the customer service has affected on customer satisfaction or customer loyalty. However, other than the service quality there are so many areas to be looked at on the super market environment. There has been no such research conducted to study how physical evidences are made an impact on consumer behavior in super market environment. Therefore, there is a gap on identifying variables, which affect on consumer behavior other than the service quality in Sri Lankan supermarkets. Consumer mind is changing time to time but it is questionable whether that change is captured by retailers when designing their strategies. The overall study focused on whether there is an impact on the physical evidence used in supermarkets towards achieving customer store loyalty. This survey has covered the five major supermarkets in Sri Lanka. The sample is consisted of 100 customers those who are doing shopping at supermarket. To carry out the research there were four physical evidence elements selected such as layout, signage, lighting and signboards of supermarkets. Through the research findings there are several aspects of the customer store loyalty was revealed. One of those is present context customers are moving from general trade to modern just because of the opportunity that they getting to compare prices of the goods, quality and specifications of each products unlike in the general trade shopping. The next reason is most of the people love to have family shopping specially in supermarkets. Nowadays this has become a new trend in supermarkets.
Maternal perception of adequacy of mother's milk among mothers giving birth at a teaching hospital in Sri Lanka
(Sage Publications, 2019) Rodrigo, R.; Rodrigo, A.; Liyanage, N.; Hathagoda, W.; Hewavitharana, U.
BACKGROUND: Sri Lanka boasts high rates of early and exclusive breastfeeding. Perceived inadequacy of milk, a global problem, is the main cause for early cessation of breastfeeding. Research Aims: The aims of this study are to (a) determine the prevalence, (b) identify the risk factors, and (c) ascertain the association that maternal psychological distress has with perceived inadequacy of milk (PIM), among mothers during the early postpartum period. Identifying and addressing modifiable risk factors for PIM may improve mothers' satisfaction with breastfeeding. METHODS: A cross-sectional descriptive study of mothers ( n = 249) during the first week after birth was conducted at Colombo North Teaching Hospital (Ragama, Sri Lanka) from May 1, 2016, to June 10, 2016. Participants were recruited when the infant was more than 24 hours but less than 7 days old. A self-administered questionnaire, including the six-item Kessler Psychological Distress Scale, was used. RESULTS: The majority of mothers (78%) perceived their milk quantity to be adequate. A family member telling mothers that their milk supply was low had the most significant associations with perceived inadequacy. Other associations were antenatal maternal complications and birth by cesarean section. Kessler scores indicating psychological distressoccurred in 26% of all participating mothers, with a higher mean score in those with PIM. CONCLUSIONS: Sri Lankan family members should be educated further about normal patterns of milk production during the postpartum period. The authors recommend that PIM be included in screening tools for postpartum depression in Sri Lanka.
Media portrayal of child abuse in Sri Lanka and the impact of two incidents of child abuse on media coverage
(Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists, 2016) Liyanage, N.; Rodrigo, A.
BACKGROUND: Child maltreatment is increasingly being recognized as an important public health issue in` Sri Lanka. Most public knowledge in Sri Lanka on this issue, and direction for public policy, originate from mass media, which may sensationalise the issue. AIMS: This paper evaluates the themes and major discourses present in Sri Lankan print media on child abuse, and aims to determine if content, style and frequency of these news items have been affected by the tragic child abuse-murder incidents in 2015. METHODS: Articles on child abuse and their readers’ comments were manually selected from the websites of the two daily newspapers with highest readership in Sri Lanka during two 3-month periods, before and after the above mentioned incidents. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods were used to analyze the findings. RESULTS: The number of articles relating to child abuse increased significantly from 0.6% to 5% of the total articles reviewed in the two periods. The focus of the articles changed from merely reporting facts and highlighting the evil nature of child abuse perpetrators, to inefficiency of law enforcement authorities in finding and punishing perpetrators. Readership and online comments on these articles increased significantly in the post-incident period. Capital punishment for perpetrators was suggested by many readers in the post-incident period. CONCLUSION: The Sri Lankan public is very sensitive to news on child abuse with formation of firm, at times extreme, viewpoints on how to manage this issue. Thus responsible and accurate depiction of child abuse by the media is important.
Role of negative experiences in past relationships and adverse childhood experiences in morbid jealousy
(Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists, 2017) Karunarathne, S.; Liyanage, N.; Rodrigo, A.
BACKGROUND : Morbid jealousy is a relatively common and disabling mental health entity. Psychological theories suggest experiences of being cheated-on in previous relationships and childhood experience of parents having or being accused of having extramarital relationships as aetiological factors of morbid jealousy. However this has not been studied adequately. METHOD : A retrospective case control study was conducted based on clinical records of patients admitted to the psychiatric unit in a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka over a 14 month period. Patients with morbid jealousy were considered as cases and those admitted with other psychiatric diagnoses were considered as controls. RESULTS : Of 2708 patients, 131 (4.8%) were identified to have morbid jealousy. In patients with morbid jealousy, a majority were males, average age was 42.8 years and schizophrenia was the commonest diagnosis. There was a statistical significant association between morbid jealousy and past experiences of being cheated-on or childhood experiences of parents having or being accused of having extra-marital relationships. DISCUSSION : Morbid jealousy was a common presentation. The significant association between morbid jealousy and above experiences could be due to a true association, recall or interpretation bias by patients with morbid jealousy, or more diligent exploration by clinicians when it comes to patient with morbid jealousy. Except for the last explanation, this association has treatment implications.
Sri Lankan medical officers’ attitudes towards the elderly: a pilot study
(Postgraduate Institute of Medicine University of Colombo, 2022) Fernando, R.; Ratnayake, G.; Liyanage, N.; Fonseka, M.; Perera, I.; Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.L.A.; Hapangama, A.
Ageism among doctors influences treatment options and care of the elderly. Attitudes of Sri Lankan doctors towards the elderly have not been studied previously. This descriptive cross-sectional study using Fraboni’s scale of ageism explored doctors' attitudes towards older people in three selected hospitals in Sri Lanka and the relationship of such attitudes with demographic, employment, education and training-related factors. No association between the attitude of doctors toward the elderly and the factors studied in this pilot study were found.
Sustainability vs Asian Urbanization: Lessons through Space Making at Pola in Sri Lanka
(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Liyanage, N.
Sustainability is inextricably linked with the urban and will therefore inevitably rely on the life journeys of millions that live in those cities. Further, Mayor of NYC, Bill deBlasio, marking the opening of the summit 'Urban Resilience Summit 2017,‘ said ―Cities are at the forefront of local solutions to the global problems of climate change and inequality‖. World Urbanization Prospects report, ―Today, 54 per-cent of the world‘s population live in urban areas,‖ and ―…[will] increase to 66 per-cent by 2050… [adding] another 2.5 billion people to urban…, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa…‖ However, if Asia (and Africa) is leading the trend of urbanization globally, it is in Asia (and Africa) that the experiments to achieve a sustainable urban future should take place. Cities and the ‗life journeys‘ of diverse urban populations in the global West and South differ in their character, composition, aspirations and soul. Hence, imported spatial-solutions to achieve sustainability makes little to no sense. Perera (2013), argues that ―[to understand the Asian city and development] …the vast terrain of ordinary actors and spaces which are currently left out should be reflected in academic debates and policy decisions, and the local thinking processes that constitute these spaces need to be acknowledged, enabled, and critiqued.‖ Hence the historical and colonial process of importing urban solutions from the global West to solve urban issues in the global south is problematic though the slippery term ‗sustainability‘ continues to mask and justify importation. Exploring the link between sustainability—a Western discourse—and Asian urbanism is an emerging path of inquiry, this paper will first develop a broader understanding of 'sustainability' through a literary survey across sustainability studies, development, urban planning, and draw empirical evidence from social production of space, from an everyday perspective; It aims to show sustainability as something embedded in local ways of development and urbanization as opposed to bureaucratically imported solutions. It will examine the Pola (periodic market in Sri Lanka) focusing on everyday practices of sustainability in 'space making' both physically and socially in contrast to similar operations in a Pola re-developed by the state in the view of achieving urban modernity and sustainability. Building on the author‘s lived-in experience and ethnographic explorations of Pola as support staff to a Pola vendor for 3-months, the paper seeks anew understanding of sustainable-urban-future for fast growing Sri Lankan cities that brings everyday practices of sustainability into the realm of policy making and spatial planning. By creating room for ways in which sustainability is understood and practiced locally the national policies and programs can gain more mileage and authenticity compared to what can be achieved through mere importation of policy and urban solutions.
TREND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE BANK OF CEYLON, SRI LANKA
(Department of Statistics and Computer Science University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, 2021) Attanayake, A. M. C. H.; Liyanage, N.
Trend analysis is important in banking to analyze and predict their financial statements. The aim of this study is to analyze the trend of key financial performance indicators; profit, advances and deposits of the Bank of Ceylon, Sri Lanka. Non-parametric loess analysis, Sen’s slope, linear/quadratic trend modeling, growth curve fitting and change point analysis were implemented to understand the trend pattern of the data. Results revealed that quadratic trend model was suited for advances and growth curves for both deposits and profits. The loess analysis detected upward trends for both advances and deposits but it was nearly horizontal for profit. The estimated slopes of the trends were significant in the Sen’s slope of three financial indicators. Potential significant changing points were detected in all