103 research outputs found
What If There Were No More Good Coffee?
No full textSummary of a panel discussion, Navigating Economic Justice and Sustainability in Coffee, that was hosted by Portland\u27s Coffee by Design on April 17. The panelists were: Heleanna Georgalis of Moplaco Trading of Ethiopia; Nico Herr and Kenneth Barigye of Mountain Harvest of Uganda; and Alexandre Mugisha, of Kalico Coffee in Burundi. They discussed the difficulties of being a coffee farmer and that many coffee farm workers live in poverty. They emphasized that consumers must recognize that higher prices ensure that coffee farmers can survive. Furthermore, consumers can help the industry by asking their local coffee roasters where their coffee comes from and if the farmers are being treated fairly
Perceived quality of clinical Care provided by nurses to people living with HIV at Four TASO sites in Uganda
No full textChallenges of Developing an Emotional Resilience Curriculum in social work education in England
No full textThis paper presents a case study example of supporting students that fail social work
placements in England. The author argues that struggling on a social work placement is associated with lack of emotional resilience. Secondly, a case for an emotional resilience or emotional intelligence curriculum is made. There is evidence that current social work educators and education policymakers are vaguely aware of how to develop an emotional resilience curriculum that is relevant to social work practice. This paper aims to stimulate and inform debate about the role of emotional resilience in the training of social workers and the challenges of implementing a curriculum with professional attributes of emotional intelligence
EXPERIENCE OF CAREGIVERS WHILE CARING FOR A PERSON WITH DEMENTIA ATTENDING BUTABIKA HOSPITAL, UGANDA
No full textBackground: The experience of falling ill can many times be challenging not just to the person directly affected by the disease, but also to those involved in the process, for example, relatives, caregivers, and other people living with this person. Caregivers will most likely experience social restrictions, financial strain, and emotional distress. Objective: This project aims to understand the experience of taking care of elders living with dementia at Butabika National Referral Hospital, outpatient clinic in Kampala, Uganda.
Methods: This was a qualitative descriptive study. Fifteen caregivers of a person with dementia (PwD) were purposively sampled from the outpatient department of Butabika Hospital, Uganda. Following informed consent, each caregiver engaged in an interview guided by a semi-structured interview guide to obtain information on their experience in caring for an individual with dementia. The information gathered was then organized and analyzed through a qualitative content analysis framework inspired by Graneheim and Lundman (1).
Results: The analysis of the data gathered led to the establishment of the main theme “It’s my responsibility”. The main theme came as a result of a comprehensive understanding of eight different categories that were summarized and reflected upon by the author and two senior researchers. The categories were labeled as knowledge about the disease, financial constraints, personal care, inappropriate behavior, safety of the PwD, psychological distress, positive aspects, and coping. These categories allow understanding the pathway followed by caregivers while fulfilling their caregiving role, describing the challenges, positive aspects and coping strategies developed by caregivers. This works also unravels the needs stated by caregivers and possible areas for intervention by the government, health policy makers and health care professionals.
Conclusion: The experience of providing care for a PwD is vast and associated with a constellation of challenges that are deepened by social factors and welfare constraints in a low-income setting. Still, the experience of caregiving for a PwD also enables for positive experiences and the development of problem and emotion-focused coping strategies. However, more studies are required to better understand the experience of caregiving in low-income settings such as Uganda.
Keywords: Experience, Coping, Caregiver, Dementia, Ugand
EXPERIENCE OF CAREGIVERS WHILE CARING FOR A PERSON WITH DEMENTIA ATTENDING BUTABIKA HOSPITAL, UGANDA
No full textBackground: The experience of falling ill can many times be challenging not just to the person directly affected by the disease, but also to those involved in the process, for example, relatives, caregivers, and other people living with this person. Caregivers will most likely experience social restrictions, financial strain, and emotional distress. Objective: This project aims to understand the experience of taking care of elders living with dementia at Butabika National Referral Hospital, outpatient clinic in Kampala, Uganda.
Methods: This was a qualitative descriptive study. Fifteen caregivers of a person with dementia (PwD) were purposively sampled from the outpatient department of Butabika Hospital, Uganda. Following informed consent, each caregiver engaged in an interview guided by a semi-structured interview guide to obtain information on their experience in caring for an individual with dementia. The information gathered was then organized and analyzed through a qualitative content analysis framework inspired by Graneheim and Lundman (1).
Results: The analysis of the data gathered led to the establishment of the main theme “It’s my responsibility”. The main theme came as a result of a comprehensive understanding of eight different categories that were summarized and reflected upon by the author and two senior researchers. The categories were labeled as knowledge about the disease, financial constraints, personal care, inappropriate behavior, safety of the PwD, psychological distress, positive aspects, and coping. These categories allow understanding the pathway followed by caregivers while fulfilling their caregiving role, describing the challenges, positive aspects and coping strategies developed by caregivers. This works also unravels the needs stated by caregivers and possible areas for intervention by the government, health policy makers and health care professionals.
Conclusion: The experience of providing care for a PwD is vast and associated with a constellation of challenges that are deepened by social factors and welfare constraints in a low-income setting. Still, the experience of caregiving for a PwD also enables for positive experiences and the development of problem and emotion-focused coping strategies. However, more studies are required to better understand the experience of caregiving in low-income settings such as Uganda.
Keywords: Experience, Coping, Caregiver, Dementia, Ugand
Challenges of Developing an Emotional Resilience Curriculum in social work education in England
No full textThis paper presents a case study example of supporting students that fail social work placements in England. The author argues that struggling on a social work placement is associated with lack of emotional resilience. Secondly, a case for an emotional resilience or emotional intelligence curriculum is made. There is evidence that current social work educators and education policymakers are vaguely aware of how to develop an emotional resilience curriculum that is relevant to social work practice. This paper aims to stimulate and inform debate about the role of emotional resilience in the training of social workers and the challenges of implementing a curriculum with professional attributes of emotional intelligence
Social Work in a Digital Age: The Need to Integrate Social Media in Social Work Education in the UK
No full textThe rise of social media provides a unique opportunity for social work to integrate new technologies in the social work curriculum. Changes in social work curriculum require a catalyst and sound research evidence. Social media is in itself a catalyst for change because of its power for collaborative learning and social interaction. This paper explores the need to integrate social media in social work education by utilising a social learning model. The author argues that the new generation of social work students was born during the “digital age” and as such have been immersed in technology all their lives. There is need therefore for a social work curriculum that is relevant to today’s world of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn
Social Work in a Digital Age: The Need to Integrate Social Media in Social Work Education in the UK
No full textThe rise of social media provides a unique opportunity for social work to integrate new technologies in social work curriculum. Changes in social work curriculum require a catalyst and sound research evidence. Social media is in itself a catalyst for change because of its power for collaborative learning and social interaction. This paper explores the need to integrate social media in social work education by utilising a social learning model. The author argues that the new generation of social work students was born during the “digital age” and as such have been immersed in technology all their lives. There is need therefore for a social work curriculum that is relevant to today’s world of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn
Estimation of the HIV-1 backward mutation rate from transmitted drug-resistant strains
No full textAbstractOne of the serious threats facing the administration of antiretroviral therapy to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infected patients is the reported increasing prevalence of transmitted drug resistance. However, given that HIV-1 drug-resistant strains are often less fit than the wild-type strains, it is expected that drug-resistant strains that are present during the primary phase of the HIV-1 infection are replaced by the fitter wild-type strains. This replacement of HIV-1 resistant mutations involves the emergence of wild-type strains by a process of backward mutation. How quickly the replacement happens is dependent on the class of HIV-1 mutation group.We estimate the backward mutation rates and relative fitness of various mutational groups known to confer HIV-1 drug resistance. We do this by fitting a stochastic model to data for individuals who were originally infected by an HIV-1 strain carrying any one of the known drug resistance-conferring mutations and observed over a period of time to see whether the resistant strain is replaced. To do this, we seek a distribution, generated from simulations of the stochastic model, that best describes the observed (clinical data) replacement times of a given mutation. We found that Lamivudine/Emtricitabine-associated mutations have a distinctly higher, backward mutation rate and low relative fitness compared to the other classes (as has been reported before) while protease inhibitors-associated mutations have a slower backward mutation rate and high relative fitness. For the other mutation classes, we found more uncertainty in their estimates
Evaluating the efficiency and economic savings levels among primary healthcare units in rukungiri district, Uganda: a non-parametric model
No full textIntroduction: The scarcity and shortage of resources in health systems in developing countries
continues to draw attention, tension and debate among stakeholders, and this calls for evaluation of
efficiency in healthcare markets.
Objectives: The purpose of the study is to analyse the efficiency and level of economic savings among
public health centre II facilities in Rukungiri District, Uganda. Two specific objectives guided the study:
estimating the technical and scale efficiency scores and the economic saving levels among the primary
healthcare facilities.
Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive research design was used and secondary data containing
health inputs and outputs that was secured from the District Health Information System (DHIS-2) for
the financial year 2022/2023. A Constant Returns to Scale (CRS) output-oriented Data Envelopment
Analysis (DEA) technique was adopted to evaluate the level of technical, scale efficiency and slack
values for economic savings that are needed to make inefficient health units efficient.
Results: An average technical efficiency level of 43.7 percent was estimated implying that facilities
need to improve on resource utilization by 56.3 percent to become technically efficient. Scale
efficiency averaged 99.7 percent and this means that the facilities were scale efficient given their size.
Economic savings arising from input reductions and output augmentations were registered.
Conclusion: This study fills the research gap by estimating the technical and scale efficiency scores for
each facility as a decision making unit in the district. It provides a novel and detailed understanding of
how much economic savings would be made if technically inefficient facilities avoid wastage of input
resources to attain efficiency. It also identifies the benchmark facilities from which inefficient ones
need to emulate to become efficient
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