Residents of malaria-endemic communities spend several hours outdoors performing different activities such as cooking, story-telling or eating; thereby exposing themselves to potentially-infectious mosquitoes. This compromises indoor interventions, notably long lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS). This study characterized common peri-domestic spaces in rural south-eastern Tanzania, and assessed protective efficacies of transluthrin-treated chairs a...
ABSTRACT Background: Cervical dilation at the onset of the active phase of labor determines the rate of cervical dilatation, duration of the active phase of labor and the needs of intervention. Identifying the abnormality toward the natural progress of the active phase of labor is important because timely intervention has been observed to be controversial among developing countries during the current practice among health care providers due to different opinion on the onset of the active pha...
ABSTRACT Background: This study was conducted in Dodoma Municipality with the aim of determining socio-cultural determinants for intimate partner violence and its impacts to the post-traumatic stress disorder among women in Dodoma municipality. Methods: Across sectional study was conducted amongst 440 women aged 18-60 years from March to April 2016. Data were collected through interviewing women by using structured questionnaires. Multiple logistic regression models were used to assess Soci...
Abstract Introduction. Maternal and perinatal mortality is still a major public health challenge in Tanzania, despite the ongoing government efforts to improve maternal and newborn care. Among the contributors to these problems is the high magnitude of severe maternal outcomes (maternal near-miss). ,e current study, therefore, aimed to identify the magnitude and predictors of maternal and perinatal mortality among women with severe maternal outcomes admitted to Dodoma Regional Referral Hospit...
ABSTRACT Background : Surgical site infection (SSI) is the most common complication following major surgery, In Tanzania the prevalence of surgical site infection is19% (WHO,2020). A controlled quasi experimental study was used to assess the effectiveness of vignette teaching technique on improving student nurses competence on surgical site infection prevention which was conducted to 132 third year student nurses whom randomly recruited from different two university schools between July to Se...
ABSTRACT Several authorities and researchers have carried out studies around academic performance of students. The reviewed works showed that academic performance of students have been an issue of concern to all stakeholders in the field of education. It was noted from the reviewed works that there are several interacting factors to academic performance which study habit is one of them. The purpose of the study was to assess the relationship between study habit and the academic performance o...
ABSTRACT Chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus require daily self management and long term therapies. Regimen adherence poses a unique challenge for patients with chronic illnesses including diabetics resulting to repeated hospital admissions, amputations and even death. There is paucity of information on regimen adherence behaviour among diabetic patients attending diabetic clinic at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu. Thus the study was done to determine the prevalenc...
ABSTRACT To study the effect of glucose counter regulatory hormones on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients at Enugu, Enugu state Nigeria, I measured the plasmainsulin, growth hormones, cortisol, fasting blood sugar, Diastolic blood pressure, systolic blood pressure and Basal metabolic index in 150 (60 males and 90 females) Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus patients and compared their results with 90(45 males and 45 females) sex and age matched apparently healthy non Diabetic controls. The mean SBP...
ABSTRACT This study was aimed at examining the food craving and aversion among first time pregnant women in selected health facilities in Enugu metropolis. The objectives of this study were to determine the type of food first time pregnant women crave for or have aversion to, identify their reasons for their specific food craving and aversion, determine the first time pregnant women’s awareness of the implication of food craving and aversion in pregnancy and to identify measures taken by f...
Abstract Asthma Is Currently A Worldwide Problem, With Increasing Prevalence In BothR Children And Adults; A Prevalence Rate Of 5 - 10% Has Been Reported For Nigeria. The Pathophysiological Features Of The Disease Are Bronchoconstriction, Airway Hyperresponsiveness And Chronic Inflammation. Drugs Used In The Management Include Bronchodilators Which Are Short-Term Relievers And Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Which Are Long-Term Controllers. Despite The Availability Of Oral And Inhaled Medications,...
Abstract This is a descriptive crossectional study which was carried out during the October 2016 in al Ribat hospital in Khartoum- Sudan. The problem of the study that increase prevalence of bladder outlet obstruction and benign prostatic hyperplasia in Sudanese adult and bladder wall thickness had estimated accurate non invasive method to diagnosis it. there is no previous study in Sudanese adult in this aspect. The study aimed to estimate urinary bladder wall thickness in healthy Sudanese ...
ABSTRACT Resistance to beta lactam antibiotics considered a big world health problem worldwide. The objective of this study was to detect the production of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in clinical isolates in Atbara Teaching hospital. A total of 100 clinical specimens were collected. These specimens were cultured on Cysteine lactose electrolyte deficient (C.L.E.D), MacConkey agar, blood agar, mannitol salt agar for primary isolate of pathogenic bacteria. Then identified depending on the...
Abstract The study was conducted to evaluate food safety in street-vended foods in Khartoum city: A study on the assessment of bacteriological profile and the factors that contribute to food contamination, using standardized survey tool containing 41 questions to test food safety knowledge and practices of 30 street vendors. The analysis of demographic characteristics revealed that the all participants were females and the majority of age group of 31- 40 years (53.3%) most of the vendors hav...
ABSTRACT Background: Abortion is highly controversial in Nigeria and has given rise to an ongoing debate concerning its legalization as a solution to Nigeria’s high maternal mortality ratio. But not much is known about the public’s perception and support for legal abortion as a veritable means to reduce maternal death in Nigeria. Objective: The study was designed to assess the perception and support of the public in Enugu urban, of legalization of abortion, as a necessary tool to reduce ...
Abstract This study assessed the barriers to maintenance of vaccine cold chain among primary health care workers in Enugu metropolis, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive cross sectional design. From a target population of 267 health workers in health centres in Enugu Metropolis, a sample size of 176 health workers who met the inclusion criteria were selected for this study. Data were collected using two instruments: a 41 item researcher-developed questionnaire used to elicit information...