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Factors Contributing to increased cases of Peptic Ulcer Disease among Patients aged 18-70 years attending Kisoro Hospital Kisoro District. A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study.
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The purpose of the study was to determine factors contributing to increased cases of peptic ulcer disease among patients aged 18-70 years of attending Kisoro hospital Kisoro district.
The study's specific objectives were to determine social-demographic, economic, and medical factors contributing to increased cases of peptic ulcer disease among patients aged between 18-70 years in Kisoro hospital Kisoro district.
Methodology:
A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used a study design; data was corrected on a sample of 60 respondents who were selected using a simple random sampling technique and questionnaires were used as data collection tools.
Results:
Regarding social-demographic factors contributing to increased cases of PUD, the majority (60%) of the respondents were older people aged between 41-70 years, most of the patients were males (60%) and most (50%) of the respondents were professionals. The study on economic factors contributing to increased cases of PUD revealed that most patients (75%) had a history of excessive alcohol consumption and the most (52%) of the respondents were low-income earners.
Conclusion:
From the study findings, social-demographic factors contributing to peptic ulcer disease were older people between 41 and 70 years.
Recommendation:
The researcher recommended the formulation and implementation of awareness programs and educative programs that would target peptic ulcer patients in hospitals and other people in the community especially men to increase awareness of the risk factors for PUD so that appropriate preventive measures are followed.
FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO DRUG ABUSE AMONG YOUTHS OF NAKASEKE TOWN COUNCIL, NAKASEKE DISTRICT, A CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY.
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(WHO, 2017) defines drug abuse as the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances including alcohol and illicit drugs. It eventually leads to dependence, a cluster of behavioral, cognitive, and physiological phenomena after repeated substance use despite the harmful consequences.
Objectives
The study aimed to determine how peer group formation among youths, parental supervision, and drug control laws and policies contribute to drug abuse among youths in Nakaseke town council.
Research methods
The researcher used a descriptive cross-sectional study design. The targeted population was the youths in Nakaseke town council. The sample size was 100 determined by Kish and Leslie’s method. Data was collected using questionnaires and interviews.
Results
It was revealed that the majority of respondents have peer groups, while 38% of the respondents misuse drugs. Alcohol is the most abused drug followed by Tobacco, marijuana, and others (which included codeine, morphine, tramadol, & NSAIDs). The study findings showed that most people misuse drugs due to peer pressure 34%, depression 21.1%, media influence 18.4%, curiosity 10.5%, and others (such as excitement, passing time, etc.). Many of the respondents knew individuals counseled for getting involved with drugs, 30% knew those who were imprisoned, 22% were not aware of any punishment given to the victims of drug abuse, and 10% of the respondents mentioned that some would undergo mob justice when they are caught.
Conclusion
The study concluded that in contrast to peer group formation among youths and drug control laws and policies, parental supervision does not have a significant impact on drug abuse.
Recommendations
Youth-based & non-governmental organizations, county & national governments, as well as other relevant stakeholders, should devote maximum attention and resources towards factors against drug abuse effectively. Town council-level strategies also influence the relationship of the other factors with drug abuse
Knowledge, Attitude and Practices towards prevention of Anaemia among Pregnant Women aged 18- 45 years in Gulu Regional Referral Hospital, Gulu District. A Cross-sectional Study.
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The purpose of the study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practices toward the prevention of anaemia among pregnant women aged 18-45 years in the Gulu regional referral hospital, Gulu district.
Methodology:
The study employed a cross-sectional study design with simple random sampling as the sampling technique. Data were collected on a sample size of 50 respondents using semi-structured questionnaires written in the English language with open and ended questions as data collection tools; analysis was done manually using tally sheets, pens, and paper, entered in an excel computer program; presented in tables and figures; then interpreted.
Results:
(94%) of respondents agreed that going for antenatal visits is important, (85%) agreed that a mother and a child can benefit from taking iron supplements, (72%) disagreed that cultural or religious beliefs prevent pregnant women from eating certain types of food, (60%) always preferred to sleep under ITNs and (70%) reported that they feel normal when they sleep under ITNs.
(56%) of respondents who had attended three ANC visits, (62%) of iron supplements they had ever taken were folic acid, (68%) usually take the iron supplements, (50%) commonly feed on carbohydrates, (60%) utilize meals three times daily and (90%) receive an iron supplement from a health facility.
Conclusion:
The study established a research gap in regards to types of food they commonly feed on, low uptake of ITNs, ANC, and irregular iron supplements intake among a notable few women, and inadequate access to iron supplements at the hospital which needs to be addressed for equitable anaemia prevention interventions.
Recommendation:
Therefore, health workers at Gulu regional referral hospital should continue to sensitize pregnant women on the dangers of not sleeping under ITNs, irregular ANC visits, and iron intake which was observed.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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