Bachelors in Nursing: Recent submissions
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Factors Influencing Alcohol Abuse Among Youth In Kamuli Municipality.
(International Health Sciences University., 2018-10)Background: Alcohol abuse is a pattern of drinking that result in harm to one’s health, interpersonal relationships or ability to work. Certain manifestations of alcohol abuse include failure to fulfill responsibilities ... -
Knowledge, Attitudes, And Practices Of Lactating Mothers Towards Complementary Feeding At Kateete Health Centre Ii, Ntunda Sub-County, Mukono District.
(International Health Sciences University., 2018-11)Background: Complementary feeding is defined as the process starting when breast milk alone is no longer sufficient to meet the nutritional requirements of infants, and therefore other foods and liquids are needed, along ... -
Prevalence And Factors Influencing Occurrence Of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Adolescents Residing In Kamwenge Sub-County, Kamwenge District.
(International Health Sciences University., 2018-11)Background: Adolescence is the time when the majority of people become sexually active, early initiation of sexual intercourse has been linked to increased risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during adolescence ... -
Immunization Coverage And Associated Factors Among Children Aged 0-9 Months In Kampala District; A Case Of Bwaise Ii Parish, Kawempe Division .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Background. Childhood mortality and morbidity remains a global challenge. This is more so in developing countries where immunization coverage remains low. The study was set to assess the immunization coverage and its ... -
Factors Affecting Regular Uptake Of Antenatal Services Among Pregnant Mothers In Their 3rdtrimester At Kisugu Health Center III.
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Background According to WHO, a pregnant mother should have attended antenatal care (ANC) at least four times by their 3rd trimester (WHO, 2015). This implies at least one visit in the 1st trimester, 2nd visit in the ... -
Factors Influencing Uptake Of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Services Among Men In Soroti Sub County, Soroti District .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Introduction: In Uganda, by the end of 2015 the country‘s health ministry aimed to circumcise 80% – or 4.2 million – men aged between 15 and 49. But between 2008 and 2013 the country only managed to circumcise 50% of ... -
Factors Influencing Uptake Of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Amongst Males Above The Age Of 15 Years Up To 49 Years In Purongo Sub County, Nwoya District .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Back ground: Safe male circumcision is believed to be associated with reduced HIV prevalence, yet it's uptake in the northern Ugandan district of Nwoya district is very low. If well embraced and adopted widely, Safe Male ... -
Factors Associated With Relapse Of Seizures In Epileptic Patients At Butabika National Referral Hospital In Kampala District .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Introduction: Epilepsy has significant physical, economic and social consequences and it is a leading serious neurological condition world wide, A seizure free life for People with Epilepsy (PWE) is one where PWE don’t ... -
Knowledge, Attitudes And Practices Of Mothers Aged 15-45years Towards Natural Family Planning In Karambi Sub-county- Kabarole District.
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-05)Approximately about 24% of married women in Sub-Saharan Africa have an unmet need for Natural family planning, defined as the desire to avoid pregnancy for the next two or more years and not utilizing a modern method of ... -
Knowledge, Attitude And Practice Towards Voluntary Blood Donation Among Students Of Secondary School In Nakawa Division .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Background: Human blood is an essential element of human life and there are no substitutes to blood as yet. Availability of safe blood and blood products is a critical component in improving health care. Blood will be ... -
Knowledge, Attitude And Practices Of Postnatal Mothers Towards The Utilization Of Modern Family Planning Services At Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital, Kabarole District .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Introduction: Family Planning use in Uganda is 23% and the unmet needs of family planning of unknown proportion of women are accessed free of charge from public clinics. Therefore a study on the level of knowledge, ... -
Knowledge Attitude And Practices Towards Prevention Of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among The Youths In Bidibidi Refugee Settlement Yumbe District .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Introduction: In Uganda adolescents have an average of 1.8 sexual partners and only 54% use condoms despite extensive voluntary counseling and testing strategies all over the country to prevent STIs (Renzaho, et al., ... -
Knowledge, Attitudes And Practices Of Health Care Waste Management Among Private Health Care Practitioners In Gulu Municipality .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-05)Background: Health care waste is a special category of waste which needs special precautions while handling. Some types of health care wastes pose a risk on human health as well as contaminate the environment. Objective: ... -
Factors Associated With Adherence To Antiretroviral Treatment Among Adolescents Attending Kalisizo Hospital, Kyotera District .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-12)Introduction: About 127,000 adolescents aged 10 to 19 are living with HIV in Uganda (UNAIDS, 2013). Both good adherence and retention in care are a prerequisite to successful management of adolescents living with HIV ... -
Knowledge, Attitude And Practice Of Nurses Towards Prevention Of Health care Acquired Infections In Nakasero Hospital, Kampala.
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Introduction: Of every 100 hospitalized patients at any given time, 7 in developed and 10 in developing countries will acquire at least one health care associated infection. As members of the health care team, nurses ... -
Knowledge And Practice Towards Integrated Management Of Neonatal And Childhood Illnesses Among The Health Workers Of Busolwe Hospital, Butaleja District .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Introduction: Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) was adopted by the Ministry of Health Uganda as one of the strategy for improving child survival and to reduce child morbidity and mortality. ... -
Knowledge, Attitude And Practices Of Caretakers Towards Prevention Of Febrile Convulsions In Children Under Five At Mityana Regional Referral Hospital .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Background of study Children under five years belong to a susceptible group who needs special attention and care during health and illness, which imposes equal responsibility to the mothers and medical personnel (UNICEF, ... -
Knowledge, Attitudes And Utilization Of HIV Post Exposure Prophylaxis Among Health Workers In Alebtong District .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-05)Introduction: The World Health Report (2002) estimates that 2.5% of HIV cases among health care workers worldwide are the result of occupational exposure. The distribution of exposures to blood borne pathogens among ... -
Knowledge, Attitudes And Practices Towards Breast Feeding Among Mothers With Infants At Kasana Hc Iv, Luweero District .
(International Health Sciences University, 2017-11)Background: Globally, infant breast feeding is well recognized since ancient ages as the best feeding method for infants because of its associated benefits including providing immunologic protection against death from ... -
Prevalence And Factors Affecting Utilization Of Insecticides Treated Mosquito Nets Among Selected Parishes In Bobi Sub County, Omoro District .
(International Health Sciences University, 2018-11)Background: Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) have been shown to significantly reduce malaria-related morbidity which is one of the causes of child mortality across a range of transmission settings in Africa. With ...