Browsing School of Health Sciences (Health-Sciences) Collection by Type
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Prevalence and factors associated with junk food consumption among students of Makerere University College of Health Sciences
(Makerere University, 2022-01-06)Background; Non-communicable diseases are an emerging global health burden and are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. 80% of the total Non communicable diseases (NCDs) deaths occur in low and middle income ... -
Prevalence and factors associated with medicine dosage form modification among paediatric patients in paediatric wards of Mulago National Referral Hospital
(Makerere University, 2022)Background: Medicine dosage form modification in this context refers to the act of changing the physical form in which a medicine is presented by the manufacturer for final consumption without the manufacturer’s recommendation. ... -
Prevalence and factors associated with missed clinic appointments among young people living with HIV/AIDS attending ART Clinic in Gombe Hospital, Butambala District
(Makerere University, 2022-10)Background: Missed clinic appointments among young people living with HIV/AIDS have continued to be a global public health challenge including Uganda. Any missed ART clinic appointments have significant health consequences ... -
Prevalence and factors associated with psychoactive substance use among undergraduate students of Makerere University: a cross-sectional study
(Makerere University, 2022-07)Background: Being a worldwide health concern among the youths, substance use exposes youths to social, economic, and health problems. Knowledge of the prevalence and predisposing factors to psychoactive substance use among ... -
Prevalence and factors associated with retakes among undergraduate continuing students at the College of health sciences, Makerere University, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-01-04)Background: Since Medical schools are known globally for admitting the best students from high school, failure would be the least expected event. The quality of students’ performance remains a top priority for educators ... -
Prevalence and factors associated with self medication among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at Kawempe National Referral Hospital.
(Makerere University, 2021-12-18)Background Self-medication is the use of drugs to treat self-diagnosed disorders or symptoms or the intermittent or continued use of a prescribed drug for chronic or recurrent diseases or symptoms. Age, educational level, ... -
Prevalence and factors associated with the use of human antibiotic formulations in commercial poultry farming in Nansana municipality, Uganda
(KATONGOLE COLLINE, ODOI YONA AND KAGUSURU SUZAN, 2021-12)Use of human antibiotic drug formulations in poultry and other livestock could contribute significantly to the development and spread of antibiotic resistance. Indiscriminate and irrational use of antibiotics in livestock ... -
Prevalence and factors contributing to concurrent use of herbal and conventional antidiabetic medicines in patients attending diabetic clinic in Naguru Hospital, Uganda.
(Makerere University, 2021-12-15)Background: Diabetes mellitus is a progressive chronic disease marked by an elevated blood sugar level. Its management involves the use of conventional medicines/allopathic and traditional/ herbal medicines. The use of ... -
Prevalence and forms of work place abuse among nurses and midwives working within and around Kampala
(2019-05)Introduction. Globally work place abuse has been documented among nurses and midwives and its associated with decrease in the quality of nursing care provided in hospitals. However, there is limited information and data ... -
Prevalence and motivations for use of skin lightening agents among undergraduate female students in Makerere University
(Makerere University, 2021)Background: The practice of skin lightening among the general population especially women is a major public health concern world-wide. The use of these skin lightening agents (SLAs) is associated with various dermatological ... -
Prevalence and predictors of adverse drug reactions to first line antiretroviral therapy among adolescents at ISS Clinic-Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital
(Makerere University, 2019-05-24)Background: HIV/AIDs remains a major threat to the health sector impacting negatively on the social and economic development of the community. With the advent of HAART there has been a reduction on AIDS related mortality. ... -
Prevalence and predictors of emergency contraceptive use among female undergraduate students of Makerere university Kampala.
(Makerere University, 2021-11)INTRODUCTION University students have a history of different risky sexual behaviours and more than 20% do not use any method of contraception a phenomenon that exposes them to unintended pregnancies which affects their ... -
Prevalence and risk factors of non-communicable diseases among HIV/AIDS patients on anti-retroviral therapy at Mukono General Hospital
(Makerere University, 2021-12)INTRODUCTION Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has changed the course of HIV/AIDS by enabling patients to live longer, raising concern of the co-existence of HIV with other chronic illnesses, notably non-communicable diseases ... -
Prevalence of and risk factors for hypertension among Makerere University teaching staff
(Makerere University, 2019-10-08)Introduction. Hypertension is a disease of global health importance and affects one third of the world’s population. Its burden is on the increase especially in Low and middle-income countries as compared to high income ... -
Prevalence of common eye conditions and their predisposing factors among carpenters in kampala city.
(Makerere University, 2023)Introduction: Occupational ocular trauma is an important cause of preventive vision loss and constitute a public health problem worldwide. Like other occupations, carpenters experience work-related hazards when executing ... -
Prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine adverse effects, associated factors and their management strategies among health workers in Mulago Hospital
(Makerere University, 2021-12-03)BACKGROUND Studies are ongoing to determine the reluctance to be vaccinated for COVID19. Several studies have been conducted since the start of the pandemic that have measured public perceptions of vaccine issues. A ... -
The prevalence of heamatoncology deviations among adult patients with cancer, A study at Uganda Cancer Institute
(Makerere University, 2021-12)Background Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, with over 18 million new cases and 9.6 million cancer deaths estimated to have occurred in 2018. Hematological deviations are among the most common ... -
Prevalence of non-adherence to prescribed antihypertensive medication and associated factors among out patients at Uganda Heart Institute
(Makerere University, 2020-11)Background: Hypertension is a major public health problem both in the developed and developing countries, but with a much bigger burden in developing countries including the Sub Saharan Africa. Non-adherence to pharmacological ... -
Prevalence of Postpartum maternal fever and associated factors among postnatal women at Kawempe National Referral Hospital
(Makerere University, 2023-07)Introduction Postpartum maternal fever is defined as body temperature of 38.0 degrees Celsius or higher taken in the first ten days after birth. Postpartum maternal fever is sometimes referred to as puerperal pyrexia or ... -
Prevalence of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection and susceptibility of urine isolates to Cephalosporins among women diagnosed with urinary track infection in China-Uganda Friendship Hospital Naguru.
(Makerere University, 2021-12-16)Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are one of the most frequent clinical bacterial infections in women, accounting for nearly 25% of all infections. An estimate of 50%-60% of women report having suffered UTI in their lives ...