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Factors Associated with Utilisation of Post natal Care Services in Lwengo Sub- County, Lwengo District, Uganda: A Cross Sectional Study.
Get PDFIntroduction: Postnatal care is the support provided to mothers and their newborns from the time of birth up to six weeks afterward. This period is crucial because many mothers and babies die during these weeks. Despite being a vital part of mothers' and children's health, postnatal care (PNC) continues to be one of the most neglected aspects of reproductive health programs.
Objective: The main objective of the study was to examine the factors associated with utilization of post-natal care services from 2002 to 2025 in Lwengo sub-county, Lwengo District.
Methods: The study was conducted in Lwengo Sub–County. A total of 370 mothers participated in this research. Quantitative data were gathered through questionnaires with 250 mothers, while qualitative data were obtained via semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with 120 mothers and healthcare workers, using Simple Random Sampling. Quantitative data was analysed by logistic regression, and qualitative data by content from descriptions by participants.
Results: Mothers who did not know the PNC services they were supposed to receive after birth were 59% less likely to attend compared to mothers who know the services offered after delivery. Mothers who had no check-ups at a health facility while pregnant were 65% less likely to attend the PNC services compared to those who had check-ups during pregnancy.
The qualitative analysis of interviews reported the major obstacles to uptake for the PNC services by mothers from the key informant interviews included la ack of knowledge about PNC services, a lack of designated rooms purposely for postnatal services, behaviour of some midwives towards the mothers.
Conclusion: 57.6% of participants used PNC services. Key determinants included awareness of PNC, proximity to health facilities, and facility readiness.
Recommendations: Deploying more midwives, improving facility infrastructure, and enhancing community education on PNC by the Government of Uganda
A cross-sectional study on the quality of care provided by lower health facilities in Kyegegwa district, Uganda.
Get PDFMaternal and neonatal health remains a pressing global concern, particularly in low-resource settings such as Kyegegwa District, Uganda. Despite ongoing improvements in healthcare infrastructure, gaps in service delivery at lower health facilities contribute to persistently high maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to assess the quality of maternal and neonatal care provided by lower health facilities in Kyegegwa District.
Methods
A cross-sectional study was conducted among 80 respondents, including mothers attending antenatal, delivery, and postnatal services. Data were collected using structured questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics, bivariate, and multivariate analyses to determine associations between quality of care and influencing factors.
Results
Of the participants, 62.5% were aged between 20–29 years, 70% were married, and 55% had attained primary education as their highest level. Overall, only 25% of respondents rated the quality of maternal and neonatal care as excellent, 45% rated it as fair, and 30% rated it as poor. High-quality maternal and neonatal care was significantly associated with regular health facility visits (χ²=12.46, p<0.001). Other factors included the availability of skilled and friendly healthcare workers (78%), presence of essential medicines (65%), availability of proper equipment (52%), effective communication (60%), and timely coordination with referral hospitals (48%). However, challenges such as understaffing, drug stock-outs, and limited infrastructure undermined service delivery.
Conclusion
The quality of maternal and neonatal care in lower health facilities in Kyegegwa District is suboptimal, with the majority of mothers rating services as fair or poor. Regular health facility visits and the presence of skilled, well-equipped, and patient-centered healthcare workers were key determinants of high-quality care.
Recommendation
Government should strengthen maternal and neonatal healthcare by recruiting and retaining skilled health workers, improving drug and equipment supply, and enhancing referral systems. Additionally, healthcare workers should adopt a respectful, patient-centered approach to improve mothers’ experiences and outcomes
FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HOME BASED CARE SERVICES IN THE CONTROL OF COVID-19 INFECTION IN SHEEMA MUNICIPALITY, SHEEMA DISTRICT. A RESTROSPECTIVE STUDY.
Get PDFIntroduction: Home care and home health companies offer a range of services to help people stay safe in their homes, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, nursing, personal care support, and transportation.
Objective: The study analyzed COVID-19 suspects' use of Home Based Care (HBC), identified social, demographic, economic, and environmental factors, and established policies for HBC agencies.
Methodology: A study involving 394 participants aged 10-80 with mild COVID-19 symptoms in home care examined factors related to home-based care services and COVID-19 infection control using logistic regression analyses.
Results: Of the 394 home care participants in the research, 80.2% were able to control their COVID infection. HBC-related factors were washing hands with soap and water, keeping a safe distance from coworkers, wearing masks, taking precautions, touching the mouth, nose, or eyes with dirty hands, and people who were unable to recall or found it difficult to break bad habits. Participants who used masks when they were out of the house most of the time (about 75% of the time) had a 95% lower chance of controlling their COVID-19 infection, according to the multivariate analysis (aOR=0.05; 95%CI (0.0-0.41); p=0.005). The odds of controlling a COVID-19 infection were 98% lower for participants who occasionally (about 25% of the time) used masks when they were outside (aOR=0.02; 95%CI (0.0-0.3); p=0.005) and 92% lower for participants who mainly (approximately 75% of the time) followed precautions when making purchases to prevent virus contamination.
Conclusion: Home Based Care significantly impacted COVID-19 infection control, with 80.2% of participants using services, highlighting its importance in maintaining continuity of care, especially for vulnerable individuals.
Recommendations: The study suggests that global implementation of evidence-based practice guidelines and federal policy changes can enhance preparedness for future disasters and pandemics. Uganda's Ministry of Health should strengthen these strategies, including home-based care services
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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