ABSTRACT The use of a tracheostomy tube affects physical and psychosocial life resulting in reduced quality of life. The purpose of the study was to explore the lived experiences of adults with a tracheostomy tube in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana. The study used a qualitative exploratory, descriptive design. A purposive sampling method was used, and the data saturation was reached on the ninth participant. The data was analysed using thematic content analysis. Anonymity and confidentiality we...
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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Nursing is the largest health care profession in the health care context (price et al., 2013), however the shortage of nurse is not a recent phenomenon. Its central significance given the fact that the care permeates every stratum and segment of any parathions, which are elaborate in mature, places them in advantage position to render high quality services to the community (I O M, 2009). The Sustainability of nursing depends on maintaining an equilibrium regardin...
ABSTRACT Uganda has one of the highest levels of childhood stunting in sub-Saharan Africa. Western Uganda has persistently registered highest levels of childhood malnutrition despite being referred to as “the food basket” of the country. To assess factors contributing to malnutrition, its consequences and prevention among children under five years of age admitted at Kampala International University Teaching Hospital (KIU-TH), a descriptive cross-sectional study design quantitative in nat...
ABSTRACT Background: Improving maternal health is one of the goals to be achieved under the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 3. Worldwide, half a million women die each year from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications which can be prevented by skilled birth assistance. One of the determinants of maternal health is the place of childbirth. Giving birth at home leads to a high risk of maternal and child mortality. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence and factor...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Anaemia in pregnancy remains a major health problem with adverse maternal and fetal outcome worldwide, especially in developing countries such as Tanzania. Taking proper nutrition, including taking iron supplement, child spacing and absence of negative food cultural practices and taboos, may prevent anaemia during pregnancy. The study aimed to establish prevalence, nutrition and obstetric factors associated with anaemia among pregnant women at Mnazimmoja, Mwembeladu an...
ABSTRACT Background: There is a significant increase of drug abuse especially injection in Tanzania. Injection behaviors have been known to facilitate the transmission of HIV. Injecting drug users are among the population with an increased risk of contracting HIV. Understanding their perceived risk is a significant factor in determining the behaviors of this group Objective: This study wanted to assess the perceived risk of HIV infections among injecting drug users in Zanzibar. Methods: A c...
ABSTRACT Background: There is increasing rate of umbilical cord abnormalities that put a pregnant woman at the risk of operative delivery, perinatal complications and adverse new born outcomes. Therefore, morphological variations in structure of this vital structure could determine the obstetrics outcomes. Despite the umbilical cord being considered to contribute to obstetric outcome, practice of examining it in Africa even globally is limited. The aim of this study was to assess predictors ...
ABSTRACT Background: Mwanza Region is one of the Regions in Tanzania with high maternal deaths with a burden of 305 MMR per 100,000 live births. Inadequate partograph compliance among nurse-midwives and poor structural quality for maternal referral system at the dispensary, health centers and hospital level can be among the contributing factors of the reported maternal deaths in the Region. This study aimed to assess the effect of structural quality of the maternal health referral system on ...
ABSTRACT Background: There is increase rate of home delivery that put women at risk of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. There has been an effort on structural barriers to facility delivery leaving behind reasons like respecting personal preferences during delivery and the quality of intrapartum care provided during delivery. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the influence of perceived quality of intrapartum care and respect of personal preferences during delivery on th...
ABSTRACT Background : Neonatal sepsis is the clinical infection categorized as early and lateonset that is a public health challenge all over the world. Number of factors; Premature rupture of membrane >18hours, repeated per vaginal examination, Prolonged/obstructed labor, antenatal care attendances have been associated with neonatal sepsis. Despite of all national interventions, Tabora Region is still the region with a high morbidity of neonatal sepsis at the western zone by 6.8%. Risk facto...
ABSTRACT Background: Family planning can avert nearly one-third of maternal deaths and 10% of child mortality when couples space their pregnancies more than two years apart. In Kagera Region the use of modern Postpartum Family Planning is uncommon. However, it is not known how much the facility preparedness and clients ‗readiness influence the uptake of Long-term ActingReversible Postpartum Family Planning [LAR PPFP]. Objective: To assess facility preparedness and clients‘ readiness on ...
ABSTRACT Despite the important advances in perinatal care in the past decades, asphyxia remains a severe condition leading to significant mortality and morbidity. Perinatal asphyxia has an incidence of 1 to 6 per 1,000 live full-term births, and represents the third most common cause of neonatal death (23%) after preterm birth (28%) and severe infections (26%). Each year approximately 24% of neonatal deaths occur due to birth asphyxia with an equal number of survivors with serious neurologica...
ABSTRACT Contraceptives uptake among the youth has been a sensitive and controversial issue in the society that has resulted to various social problems that include unwanted pregnancies and sexual transmitted infections among others. This calls for intervention measures that will promote contraceptive use in order to reduce unwanted pregnancies, sexual transmitted diseases and slow down the spread of HIV/AIDS among university students. The main objective of this study was to determine the uti...