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Predictors for adoption of e-learning among health professional students during the COVID-19 lockdown in a private university in Uganda

BMC Medical Education, 2022
Background During the recent Coronavirus pandemic, many universities realized that the traditional delivery of educational content was not adequate in the context of imposed restrictions. Adoption of e-learning was one obvious way to foster continuity of
Alimah Komuhangi, Hilda Mpirirwe, Lubanga Robert, Florence Wamuyu Githinji, Rose Clarke Nanyonga   +4 more
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Practice, perceived barriers and motivating factors to medical-incident reporting: a cross-section survey of health care providers at Mbarara regional referral hospital, southwestern Uganda

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Medical-incident reporting (MIR) ensures patient safety and delivery of quality of care by minimizing unintentional harm among health care providers.
Turyahabwe Naome, Mwesigwa James, Atuhairwe Christine, Taremwa Ivan Mugisha   +3 more
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Timely Attendance of the First Antenatal Care among Pregnant Women Aged 15–49 Living with HIV in Juba, South Sudan

Advances in Public Health, 2022
Timely attendance of the first antenatal care (ANC) is the period in which pregnant women visit ANC less than four months of pregnancy. There is a paucity of data on timely first ANC attendance and its associated factors among pregnant women living with ...
Angelina Nasira Boi, Jonathan Izudi, Fiona Atim   +2 more
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Determinants of male involvement in antenatal care at Palabek Refugee Settlement, Lamwo district, Northern Uganda

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023
Background In 2014, Uganda launched the National Male Involvement Strategy in Maternal and Child Health. In 2020, the District Health Management Information System report for Lamwo district, where Palabek Refugee Settlement is located, indicated a 10 ...
Irene Auma, Dinah Nabaweesi, Sam Orech, John Bosco Alege, Allan Komakech   +4 more
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Effects and coping mechanisms associated with Premenstrual Syndrome among female University Students in Central Uganda: A Cross-sectional Study

Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2022
Background The cyclic nature of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) affects those with severe symptoms in ways that make them incapacitated or inefficient every month impairing their quality of life. This problem in Uganda is compounded by the cultural stigma
Elizabeth Atim, Florence Nabushawo Okecho, Regina Ndagire, Catherine Lwanira Nassozi   +3 more
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Prelacteal feeding among infants within the first week of birth in eastern Uganda: evidence from a health facility-based cross-sectional study

International Breastfeeding Journal, 2021
Background Prelacteal feeding hinders early initiation of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding but is understudied in Uganda. We examined the prevalence and factors associated with prelacteal feeding among postpartum mothers in Kamuli district in ...
Racheal Akello, Derrick Kimuli, Stephen Okoboi, Alimah Komuhangi, Jonathan Izudi   +4 more
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PREVALENCE OF PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS AND DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING AMONGST ADULT HIV PATIENTS AT KISUGU HEALTH CENTRE III, MAKINDYE DIVISION, IN UGANDA

Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023
Background: Pulmonary aspergillosis is one of the respiratory conditions that are missed to be diagnosed and neglected in Uganda and it has been reported to be common worldwide, especially among people living with HIV.
Jonah Buyi, Bashir Mwambi, Ivan Mugisha Taremwa   +2 more
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Assessing the prevalence and risk factors of pre-diabetes among the community of Iganga municipality, Uganda: a cross sectional study

BMC Research Notes, 2019
Objective The prevalence of pre-diabetes is increasing globally with more than 470 million people projected to develop pre-diabetes by 2030. In Africa, the average prevalence of pre-diabetes was estimated at 7.3% in 2015 and affected individual will ...
Christine Aramo, Anthony Peter Oyom, Emmanuel Okello, Victoria Acam, John Charles Okiria, Bashir Mwambi, Caesar Oyet   +6 more
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A Cross-sectional Survey of the Determinants of Maternal Health Services Utilization among Women with Disability in Mbale District, Uganda.

Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2022
Background: The study aimed to evaluate the determinants of maternal health services utilization among women with disability (WWD) in the Mbale district in Uganda.
Edna, Christine Watera, James Matata, Jemimah Kyeyune   +2 more
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Discontinuation of tuberculosis treatment among children in the Kampala Capital City Authority health facilities: a mixed-methods study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Introduction Discontinuation of tuberculosis treatment (DTT) among children in sub-Saharan Africa is a major obstacle to effective tuberculosis (TB) control and has the potential to worsen the emergence of multi-drug resistant TB and death.
Leonard Kibirige, Jonathan Izudi, Stephen Okoboi   +2 more
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