Mkiwa Akida, Leonard Malasa, Ayam R. Kalingonji, F. S. Kalabamu, F. Rutachunzibwa, M. Fataki, E. Mwaikambo, Y. Mashalla
BACKGROUND: Neonatal hypothermia is a major cause of mortality. This study determined the prevalence and factors associated with neonatal hypothermia in two regional referral hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. METHODS: Cross-sectional study was carried out between March and May 2021 at the Mwananyamala and Temeke Regional Referral Hospitals. Simple random and stratified sampling procedures were used to select study sites and proportionate population samples from each hospital respectively. Body temperature was measured within 90 minutes post birth; knowledge of the WHO guidelines on thermal protection of new-borns was collected from the mothers and health care providers using questionnaires. Logistic regression was used to assess associations between variables. SPSS version 25 was used to analyse the data and p < 0.05 was considered significant. RESULTS: Total of 296 mother-new-born pairs and 41 health care providers were enrolled in the study. 26 mothers did not consent for the study. 25.6% of the 270 studied neonates were hypothermic. Lack of skin-to-skin contact with the mother; early neonatal weighing and bathing increased likelihood of neonatal hypothermia. Knowledge of neonatal thermal protection among mothers and care-providers was inadequate. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of neonatal hypothermia among neonates in the referral hospitals is high. The findings suggest knowledge gaps of the WHO recommended guidelines on neonatal hypothermia are associated with neonatal hypothermia. Efforts to increase awareness of the WHO recommended thermal protection guidelines are needed.
背景:新生儿体温过低是死亡的主要原因。本研究确定了坦桑尼亚达累斯萨拉姆两家地区转诊医院新生儿体温过低的患病率和相关因素。方法:横断面研究于2021年3月至5月在Mwananyamala和Temeke地区转诊医院进行。采用简单随机抽样和分层抽样方法分别从各医院选择研究地点和按比例分配人口样本。出生后90分钟内测量体温;通过问卷调查从母亲和卫生保健提供者那里收集了世卫组织关于新生儿热保护指南的知识。使用逻辑回归来评估变量之间的关联。采用SPSS version 25对数据进行分析，p < 0.05为差异有统计学意义。结果:共有296对母婴和41名医护人员参与了这项研究。26位母亲不同意这项研究。270名新生儿中有25.6%的人体温过低。缺少与母亲的肌肤接触;新生儿早期称重和洗澡增加了新生儿低温症的可能性。母亲和护理人员对新生儿热保护的知识不足。结论:转诊医院新生儿低温症患病率较高。研究结果表明，世卫组织推荐的新生儿体温过低指南的知识缺口与新生儿体温过低有关。需要努力提高对世卫组织推荐的热防护指南的认识。
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Eale E. Kris, Nwafor S. Uchenna, Mary P. Selvaggio, Ladi-Akinyemi Babatunde O
This retrospective cross-sectional study examined demographic factors that predict Lost to Follow-up (LTFU) among HIV-positive patients on treatment based on patient-level data from 2000 to 2021 from 70 the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)-supported facilities in Edo, Lagos and Bayelsa states of Nigeria. A total of 32,910 patients were identified for the descriptive analysis, although only 26,797 were included in the final model due to missing values for certain variables. Descriptive statistics describe the basic features of the data, while logistic regression identified patient characteristics at ART initiation that predicted LTFU. A stepwise forward and backward regression were used to select the variables to include in the model. Despite improving adherence in each cohort initiated since 2005, a large proportion of patients (72%) were LTFU between 2005 and 2015. However, thereafter (2016 to 2020) Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART)’s adherence improved with the average retrospective cumulative LFTU dropping to 27% for the period. The predictive analysis suggests the following patient variables are significantly associated with LTFU at 95% CI: Patients initiated prior to 2018 were 57% more likely to become LTFU. HIV patients who reported post-secondary education as their highest education level were twice as likely to become LTFU in comparison to those with no education. Compared to their counterparts aged 25+, the patients’ ages 0-19 and 20-24 subset are less likely to become LTFU. HIV patients who were divorced or separated were about 1.3 times more likely to be LTFU compared to their married counterparts. The tendency to be LTFU increases at WHO stage 2 and decreases as the patient’s WHO clinical stage progresses from stage 3 to stage 4. Lastly, patients in Edo were 23 times more likely to become LTFU, while patients in Lagos were 4 times more likely to become LTFU compared to their Bayelsa counterparts.
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B. Nwankwo, M. Mohammadnezhad, Victoria Mensah Hagan, Christopher Garatsa, Emily Bukachi Barasa
BACKGROUND: Child undernutrition is a key public health issue that both causes and contributes to disease and death. Undernutrition accounts for 45% of under-five deaths globally most of which occur in Low- and Middle-income countries (LMIC). Malnutrition has a substantial and long-lasting effect on individuals, families, communities and the entire nation. This study aimed to assess the prevalence and determinants of undernutrition in under-five children in Nigeria. METHODOLOGY: This systematic review was done following the Cochrane library guidelines. A search of literature written in English language and published between 2000 and 2022 was done using PubMed, CINAHL, MEDLINE and ProQuest databases. The initial search resulted in 760 studies. These were exported to End note version 9 to remove duplicates. Titles and abstracts were screened for studies that met the inclusion criteria. Finally, 11 studies that met the inclusion criteria were thoroughly assessed and data that were relevant to this systematic review were captured. The study findings were analyzed using descriptive statistics. RESULTS: The prevalence of undernutrition was between 1.0% and 43.3%. The highest prevalence of underweight, wasting and stunting were 43.3%, 29.3% and 41%, respectively. Factors associated with undernutrition were age, sex, birth order, recent acute diarrhoea and acute respiratory infection, maternal literacy level, maternal income <$20 and socio-economic class among others. CONCLUSION: Under-five undernutrition is a huge public health issue in Nigeria. Prevalence of undernutrition varies widely across geo-political zone with a myriad of associated risk factors. Multi-level and multidisciplinary interventions are required to sustainably address the determinants of under-five undernutrition.
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Reviewer Acknowledgements for Global Journal of Health Science, Vol. 14, No. 10, 2022.
《Global Journal of Health Science》，Vol. 14, No. 10, 2022。
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Reviewer Acknowledgements for Global Journal of Health Science, Vol. 14, No. 9, 2022.
《Global Journal of Health Science》，Vol. 14, No. 9, 2022。
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A. M. Mohamoud, Magda Elhadi Ahmed Yousif, O. Saeed
BACKGROUND: Somalia has a high burden of malaria and between 2000 and 2019, an estimated 759,000 cases and 1,942 deaths from malaria have occurred. Although there is limited national data and statistics on the burden of malaria in Somalia, it is considered a major public health problem in the country. AIM OF THE STUDY: The purpose of this study is to explore the results of a rapid assessment of the extent of current access and adequate utilization of malaria control interventions among women of childbearing age from 15 to 49 years in Bad-bado Refugee Camp, Dharkenley District, Mogadishu, Somalia. METHOD: This study applied a non-probability purposive sampling strategy for recruiting study participants. A total of 150 women aged 15 to 49 years old were selected, and semi-structured questionnaires were the main data collection methods. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 23 and used a P-value of 95% to assess associations between variables with ≤0.05 regarded as a statistically significant. RESULTS: The incidence of malaria among respondents was 59 cases (39.3%), of which 39 (66.1%) were mothers followed by 17 cases (28.8%) of children under the age of five years. The vast majority of 51 (63.0%) of the respondents who seek treatment confirmed that the distance from the health facility to their residence is about three kilometers or further. The majority of 39 (66.1%) of the respondents who were infected with malaria did not take the malaria medicine, while non-availability and/or non-affordability of the prescribed medicines in the clinics was the reason for not taking the medicine. Most of the respondents, 140 out of 150 of the study participants (93.3%), confirmed that they did not get any malarial services in their internally displaced persons (IDP) settlements. Almost all of the respondents’ household members 147 (98%) did not own insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), reasoning that due to the lack of distribution of ITNs and the unaffordability of their costs. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION: The study revealed a high incidence of malaria cases. However, this study recommends the government and other stakeholders should provide funding to establish camp clinics and increase mobile teams to provide adequate and accessible public health services to combat malaria in these vulnerable populations.
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The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected many countries, including Indonesia. Many parties, including educational institutions, have to deal with pandemic conditions. This paper aims to describe how the academic institution, Jenderal Soedirman University, is handling the pandemic situation. Various activities led by the COVID-19 Unsoed Task Force undertook several efforts to respond to the pandemic, such as conducting active supervision for all academics, mentoring teams, educating, conducting real work lecture programs, and forming COVID-19 joint volunteer teams. During data monitoring, several activities were completed such as handling patients in surveillance, tracking, and follow-up. Other efforts in the education field were also carried out to keep running the activity, but with a joint security procedure COVID-19 as well as several policies set such as changing the way of teaching to be online. Best possible efforts have been made by the university to respond to the pandemic quickly and effectively.
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Véronique Le Deley, J. Masson, O. Pierrefiche, A. Bernoussi, Ivan Stojcevski
This study addresses altered states of consciousness through Holotropic breathwork. This technique can induce a state of deep trance, giving access to different levels of identity construction, particularly on the emotional, somatic and psychological level. This considerable piece of introspective work falls within the school of transpersonal psychology whose major contribution is the integration of transcendent nature into human dimension. The objective is to estimate the transcendent impact of this psychotherapeutic method. The sample consists of 115 male and female participants who have tried this technique at least once. Data were collected through the Adult Transcendence Inventory (Levenson, 2005), in order to assess the level of decentration. Our statistically validated results indicate a predominantly positive impact of this psychotherapy, demonstrating a transcendental effect of the holotropic method.
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Muhammad Muqeet Ullah, A. Al Balushi, Hanan Al-Marbouai, Shivdev Singh Katoch, S. S. A. Al Mamari, Mohammed Rashid Abdullah Al Shamsi, Jawaher Mohammed Al Yazeedi, S. Varughese, Muhammad Adil Anver, Fatma Rashid Al Ghaithi
Tetanus is a notifiable disease in Oman under event based surveillance system. It is an uncommon but very fatal disease caused by spores of bacteria found in the environment. The disease remains an important public health problem in many parts of the world, especially in low-income countries or districts, where immunization coverage is low. Tetanus requires a history of injury or wound. This is a clear typical clinical picture in our fatal case of a 43 years old Bangladeshi expatriate who was diagnosed for the first time in the governorate at Accident & Emergency Department of Al-Buraimi Hospital, Sultanate of Oman. Regular health education awareness of the public for immunization and timely seeking medical care can play an important role in lowering the morbidity and mortality of tetanus. This case report should definitely contribute to raise the awareness of tetanus, both at local and national level among all health workers and public.
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N. Sharma, S. Lakshmanan, Kritika Pandey, Remya L Nair, Avtar Singh, Gayatri Kulkarni, Kishor Pandav, Prabhu Shah
We have recently undertaken a corporate strategy evaluation for a more accurate appraisal of the Ayurveda Practice Based Research Network's two-year outcomes. While many of our views and experiences may not be original to PBRN networks, we feel that for Integrative Ayurveda, our insights will be valuable to others who are constructing or reshaping Ayurveda practice in a shifting health care context. Research that is contemporary, applicable, and amenable to integration into practice must be prioritized. Clinicians, academics, information technologists, and various scientists, as well as strategy implementation professionals, combining to establish a creative Hub, is a viable approach for reaching this objective in comparison to the original PBRN models. The creative Hub could assist academics in identifying significant research topics and meeting "critical" standards. Bridging the ends between practitioners, researchers, and clinicians may require novel partnerships and non-traditional funding sources in the future.
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