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Scooping Review of Diabetes Research in Kenya from 2000 to 2020. 2000 至 2020 年肯尼亚糖尿病研究回顾。
The East African health research journal Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-26 DOI: 10.24248/eahrj.v8i2.784
Anthony Muchai Manyara, Protus Musotsi
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Adherence to Lifestyle Recommendations among Adults Attending Hypertension Clinics in Selected Hospitals in Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Study. 坦桑尼亚部分医院高血压门诊就诊成人对生活方式建议的依从性:一项横断面研究。
The East African health research journal Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.24248/eahrj.v8i1.745
Joseph Nyanda Shilole, Rehema Bakari Omari, Jacktan Josephat Ruhighira, Ahmed Gharib Khamis, Julius Edward Ntwenya
{"title":"Adherence to Lifestyle Recommendations among Adults Attending Hypertension Clinics in Selected Hospitals in Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Study.","authors":"Joseph Nyanda Shilole, Rehema Bakari Omari, Jacktan Josephat Ruhighira, Ahmed Gharib Khamis, Julius Edward Ntwenya","doi":"10.24248/eahrj.v8i1.745","DOIUrl":"10.24248/eahrj.v8i1.745","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and aims: </strong>Hypertension is the first contributor to the deaths caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide. A change of lifestyle is recommended as an equal-first-line approach for controlling hypertension. However, the burden of uncontrolled hypertension remains high. This article describes the level of adherence to recommended lifestyle modifications among hypertensive patients in Tanzania.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The research was carried out from June to September 2020 using a cross-sectional study that involved an interviewer-administered questionnaire with 311 participants. These were patients with hypertension (> 18 years old) who were randomly selected from patients attending clinics during the study period. The lifestyle behaviours were assessed using the WHO Steps survey standard questionnaire. SPSS, version 26, was used to enter and analyse the data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean age of hypertensive patients was 53.6 ± 7.5 years. Females were 58.8%. Only 17.7% had good compliance with the recommended lifestyle behaviours related to hypertension. Regular physical activities had 37.9% adherence, 99% adhered to non-smoking, 94.2% adhered to moderation of alcohol consumption, and 22.2% adhered to the consumption of fruits and vegetables. Patients with adequate knowledge were two times more likely to comply with the WHO recommended lifestyle behaviours (aOR=2.32; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.082 to 3.471; <i>P= .05</i>].</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Most patients with hypertension had poor lifestyle behaviours for the management of hypertension, with varying level of adherence to the recommended life style changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":74991,"journal":{"name":"The East African health research journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11371004/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142134673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Hypertension Management Among Hospitalised Patients at Kamenge University Hospital in Bujumbura. 布琼布拉卡门格大学医院住院病人的高血压管理。
The East African health research journal Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.24248/eahrj.v8i1.744
Eugene Ndirahisha, Ramadhan Nyandwi, Joseph Nyandwi, Sebastien Manirakiza, Patrice Barasukana, Thierry Sibomana, Elysee Baransaka
{"title":"Hypertension Management Among Hospitalised Patients at Kamenge University Hospital in Bujumbura.","authors":"Eugene Ndirahisha, Ramadhan Nyandwi, Joseph Nyandwi, Sebastien Manirakiza, Patrice Barasukana, Thierry Sibomana, Elysee Baransaka","doi":"10.24248/eahrj.v8i1.744","DOIUrl":"10.24248/eahrj.v8i1.744","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>According to the World Health Organization in 2015, 40 million out of the 56 million deaths recorded worldwide (70%) were due to non-communicable diseases. These were mainly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A prospective descriptive study was conducted from October 2018 to March 2019. Availability of the files in the department's archives store for medical records and availability of trained physicians to perform diagnosis and treatment of HBP were the criteria used to select departments to be included in the study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients data were recorded from internal medicine department (59.8%), emergency department (18.1%) gynaecology and obstetrics department (13.3%) and surgery department (8.6%). The mean age of the patients who were hospitalised in the study period was 54 years (SD±10.2) with extremes of 18 and 104 years. The modal class was the age group of 50 to 60 with 24.4% of cases. Among patients who were hospitalised, 3.6% (127) had essential hypertension, of which 57.4% (73) were women.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Notable percentage of patients hospitalized at the University Hospital of Kamenge had essential hypertension. However, patients' knowledge of their hypertensive status had no positive contribution to its management.</p>","PeriodicalId":74991,"journal":{"name":"The East African health research journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11371067/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142134680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Spectrum and Trends of Cancer in Southwestern Uganda from 2012 to 2021. 2012 至 2021 年乌干达西南部癌症的分布和趋势。
The East African health research journal Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.24248/eahrj.v8i1.746
Yekosani Mitala, Raymond Atwine, Brian Ssenkumba, Abraham Birungi, Barbra Tuhamize, Richard Ezinga, Keneth Male, Kabanda Taseera
{"title":"Spectrum and Trends of Cancer in Southwestern Uganda from 2012 to 2021.","authors":"Yekosani Mitala, Raymond Atwine, Brian Ssenkumba, Abraham Birungi, Barbra Tuhamize, Richard Ezinga, Keneth Male, Kabanda Taseera","doi":"10.24248/eahrj.v8i1.746","DOIUrl":"10.24248/eahrj.v8i1.746","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Cancer has become a global public health challenge and the number one cause of premature death. The incidence is increasing globally and more rapidly in low and middle-income countries despite the gross under-registration and challenges in diagnosis. Data about Uganda is mostly from the Mulago cancer registry which may not entirely represent other parts of the country. This study presents the trends of cancer incidence for Southwestern Uganda in a decade (2012 to 2021).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We did a review of records at the Mbarara University histopathology laboratory and Mbarara Regional Referral Oncology Clinics from January 2012 to December 2021 for cancer diagnoses. Records missing patients' age or sex were excluded.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We registered 4197 incident cancers, 51.8% were among males, and 10.7% were among children (0-18 years). The median age was 52 years and the interquartile range was 35-67 years. The most commonly diagnosed cancers were prostate cancer (13.46%), ocular surface carcinoma (11.03%), cervical cancer (10.55%), head and neck cancers (7.31%), esophageal carcinoma (6.79%), lymphomas (5.36%), retinoblastoma (5.31%), and breast cancer (5.00%) in descending order. Retinoblastoma was the most common cancer among children.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The cancer pattern in Southwestern Uganda has changed and the numbers diagnosed each year are increasing. Prostate cancer is the most common diagnosed cancer overall, and the commonest cancer among men. Among women, cervical cancer is the most common cancer, followed by ocular surface carcinoma, and breast cancer. Retinoblastoma is the most common cancer among children. The trend of Kaposi sarcoma has plummeted together with ocular surface carcinomas. The cancer trends seem to be influenced by the presence of diagnostic and treatment expertise in the region.</p>","PeriodicalId":74991,"journal":{"name":"The East African health research journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11371008/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142134690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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What is Stress in Epilepsy? A Content Analysis and an open letter to the World Health Organization (WHO): Highly Time to Define Stress 癫痫中的压力是什么?内容分析和致世界卫生组织(世卫组织)的公开信:是时候定义压力了
The East African health research journal Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.12681/healthresj.23160
Georgios Pilafas, Penelope Louka, Georgios Lyrakos
{"title":"What is Stress in Epilepsy? A Content Analysis and an open letter to the World Health Organization (WHO): Highly Time to Define Stress","authors":"Georgios Pilafas, Penelope Louka, Georgios Lyrakos","doi":"10.12681/healthresj.23160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/healthresj.23160","url":null,"abstract":"Aim: Stress is one of the most researched issues in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology. The background review illustrated that much peer-reviewed quantitative studies do not define accurately the concept of stress in epilepsy and/or use a different rationale in their definition. This contributes further in major medical and psychological debates and research questions in the last decade of whether stress is ‘epileptogenic’ and ‘seizure triggering’ for epileptic patients. Material and Method: The present qualitative study applied a content analysis on Chapter 5 of World Health Organization’s (WHO) first and latest global report on epilepsy -from a Health Psychology point of view-, seeking for (i) a universal definition of stress in epilepsy, (ii) what stressors are more related to ‘epileptogenesis’ and ‘seizure triggering’ –if any- and (iii) any proposed stress relief and management strategies to be delivered by psychologists. Results and Conclusions: Primary and secondary content analysis presented that WHO does not define stress as a single entity, but rather shows an unspecified link with ‘social stigma’ or ‘social stressors’. Moreover, WHO does not show taking leadership in defining stress for research purposes. Lastly, there are some thoughts that although WHO applies the biopsychosocial model in this report, it considers that the ‘psycho’ part of the model concerns entirely the field of ‘psychopathology’.","PeriodicalId":74991,"journal":{"name":"The East African health research journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135645716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The influence of canned laughter in the sense of humor of healthy Greek adults. A pilot study with debatable results. 罐头笑声对健康的希腊成年人幽默感的影响。一项初步研究,结果有争议。
The East African health research journal Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.12681/healthresj.34139
Maria Danai Vichou, Alexandra Neila, Olga Gavala, Filomila Dimitra Kotidou, Georgios Pilafas, Penelope Louka
{"title":"The influence of canned laughter in the sense of humor of healthy Greek adults. A pilot study with debatable results.","authors":"Maria Danai Vichou, Alexandra Neila, Olga Gavala, Filomila Dimitra Kotidou, Georgios Pilafas, Penelope Louka","doi":"10.12681/healthresj.34139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/healthresj.34139","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Humor is the individual’s perception of something interpreted as funny. It is usually accompanied by emotional and vocal reactions, such as laughter. Scientists have long studied the factors that can influence this response and have argued whether it is contagious. Canned laughter is widespread in American situation comedies, but does it influence the sense of humor of the audience? To test this question, much research has been conducted, but the findings remain controversial. Method and Material: This laid the foundations to create a study on healthy Greek adult population to examine the influence of canned laughter on their sense of humor, using independent sample test comparison in SPSS software. Thirty individuals were recruited through the convinent sampling method and participated in the study. Half of them watched a video with canned laughter in the background (M=6.53, SD=2.1), whereas the rest watched a video without canned laughter (M=5.46, SD=1.77). Then they were asked to evaluate the comicality of the video on a Likert scale. Results: The data was collected with the use of questionaries and the statistical analysis was conducted in SPSS. The results showed that there were no significant differences in the means of the two groups, concluding that there was not a direct influence of canned laughter on the humor of the participants, t(28)= -1.505, p= .868 Conclusion: Great limitations to this study were the sampling method, the language of the videos that were not in the native language of the participants, and the tendency of the participants to respond with socially liked answers.","PeriodicalId":74991,"journal":{"name":"The East African health research journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135645727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Patient safety and quality of Health Care Provided 提供的医疗保健的病人安全和质量
The East African health research journal Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.12681/healthresj.35563
Olga Kadda
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A study of the biopsychosocial rehabilitation of patients with myocardial infarction six months after their discharge from the Cardiac Care Unit 心梗患者出院后6个月的生物心理社会康复研究
The East African health research journal Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.12681/healthresj.34508
Eleanna Apostolopoulou, Charalampia Tsagri, George Kipourgos, Anastasios Tzenalis
{"title":"A study of the biopsychosocial rehabilitation of patients with myocardial infarction six months after their discharge from the Cardiac Care Unit","authors":"Eleanna Apostolopoulou, Charalampia Tsagri, George Kipourgos, Anastasios Tzenalis","doi":"10.12681/healthresj.34508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/healthresj.34508","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Acute myocardial infarction is one of the leading causes of death in the developed world. The purpose of this research is to study the biopsychosocial rehabilitation of patients with myocardial infarction six months after their release from the heart attack unit. Method and Material: The population of the study consisted of patients who had suffered a myocardial infarction and had been hospitalized in the heart attack unit of a University General Hospital six months ago. The study sample was 100 patients. The sampling method is simple randomization. Results: Problems of anxiety and sadness with a percentage of 50% are in first place, followed by problems of pain and discomfort at a percentage of 24%, problems in performing usual daily activities at a percentage of 22%, mobility problems at a percentage of 16 % and finally the problems of self-care at a rate of 12%. There is a statistically significant difference between genders, with men being more affected with mobility problems (p-value= 0.014) and with performing usual activities (/p-value= 0.003). Patients who are ≤65 years of age appeared to be more affected compared to those &gt;65 years of age in terms of mobility problems (/p-value= 0.009). Conclusions: Quality of life improves for most patients after myocardial infarction. Whether or not patients have problems on one or more dimensions of the EQ-5D is highly related to the patient's profile. Fewest problems are observed in the self-care dimension and most problems are reported in the anxiety or sadness dimension.","PeriodicalId":74991,"journal":{"name":"The East African health research journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135645715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Frequency of nursing student medication errors: A systematic review 护理学生用药错误的频率:一项系统回顾
The East African health research journal Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.12681/healthresj.33669
Christos Triantafyllou, Maria Gamvrouli, Pavlos Myrianthefs
{"title":"Frequency of nursing student medication errors: A systematic review","authors":"Christos Triantafyllou, Maria Gamvrouli, Pavlos Myrianthefs","doi":"10.12681/healthresj.33669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/healthresj.33669","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Health promotion and patient safety are the main targets of the healthcare provision by the National Health Systems. As for the nursing profession, nursing students make medication errors during clinical interventions, which could be a potential danger to patient safety. The investigation of the frequency of nursing student medication errors, as well as the frequency of each type of nursing student medication errors. Method and Material: A systematic review of the literature was conducted on the electronic database \"PubMed\" with the keywords: \"medication error\", \"prescribing error\", \"drug error\", \"drug use error\", \"drug mistake\", \"wrong drug\", \"wrong dose\", \"administration error\", \"dispensing error\", \"incorrect drug\", \"incorrect dose\", \"inappropriate prescribing\", \"inappropriate medication\", \"transcription error\", \"nursing student\", \"nursing trainee\" and on the Greek electronic database IATROTEK-online with the keywords: \"medication errors\" and \"nursing students\", without time limit for the publication of scientific papers. On PubMed, the keywords were searched in the title and abstract of the studies. Studies were excluded if they were not published in English and Greek language, were conducted on animals, and were case studies, editorials, and letters to the editor. Results: Of the 47 scientific papers retrieved, 6 were included in the systematic review. A total of 1,904 nursing student medication errors were recorded by nursing students. The majority of errors were: 1) wrong dose form (330,17%), 2) omission error (313, 16.4%), and 3) wrong time (259, 13.6%). Conclusions: The frequency of nursing student medication errors is high. The safe administration of medications is an important skill that nursing students should learn. medication administration.","PeriodicalId":74991,"journal":{"name":"The East African health research journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135645714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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High-vs medium-frequency neuromuscular electrical stimulation protocols on muscle mass in Intensive Care Unit patients, a pilot study 高/中频神经肌肉电刺激方案对重症监护室患者肌肉质量的影响,一项试点研究
The East African health research journal Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.12681/healthresj.34252
Christos Georgopoulos, Aikaterini Katsogianni, Eirini Patsaki, Georgios Sidiras, Ioannis Vasileiadis, Eleni Magira, Serafim Nanas, Lefteris Karatzanos
{"title":"High-vs medium-frequency neuromuscular electrical stimulation protocols on muscle mass in Intensive Care Unit patients, a pilot study","authors":"Christos Georgopoulos, Aikaterini Katsogianni, Eirini Patsaki, Georgios Sidiras, Ioannis Vasileiadis, Eleni Magira, Serafim Nanas, Lefteris Karatzanos","doi":"10.12681/healthresj.34252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/healthresj.34252","url":null,"abstract":"Aim: The aim of the present study was to investigate whether a high-frequency (HF) neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) protocol could result in a smaller loss of muscle mass than a moderate-frequency (MF) protocol in ICU patients. Methods and materials: In this randomized pilot control trial, patients of the two intervention groups followed daily NMES sessions from the day of ICU admission until the tenth day. All study groups received physiotherapy in terms of usual care. Muscle layer thickness was assessed with ultrasound in the vastusintermedius (VI) and rectus femoris (RF) muscle to evaluate changes in muscle mass. Results: Totally 58 patients were allocated into three groups and 29 were finally analyzed (control: 10, MF: 12, HF: 7). Significant differences (p=0.05) between control and pooled NMES groups were observed for the right RF and VI. Significant differences in favor of HF vs MF group were observed for the left RF (3.6±15.3 vs 7.2±7.9% respectively, p=0.04). No differences were found regarding the number of sessions and presence of oedema (p&gt;0.05), while strength of contraction during sessions tended to be somewhat higher in the HF (p=0.09). Conclusion: HF may be more effective than MF to prevent muscle mass loss in ICU patients. More studies are needed to determine the optimal NMES characteristics.","PeriodicalId":74991,"journal":{"name":"The East African health research journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135645718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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