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KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF PREGNANT MOTHERS TOWARDS THE USE OF FOLIC ACID DURING ANTENATAL AT ENTEBBE REGIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL, WAKISO DISTRICT: A DESCRIPTIVE CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY.
Full text linkBackground:
In Uganda, the uptake of folic acid during pregnancy stands at 3.1% among all pregnant women which has led to an estimated 1400 children with spinal bifida annually. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes of pregnant mothers towards the use of folic acid during antenatal at Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital, Wakiso district.
Methodology:
A descriptive and cross-sectional study design that employed quantitative data collection methods was used. A sample size of 30 respondents was selected using a simple random sampling method and responded to a structured questionnaire. Data was analyzed using Microsoft Excel Programs that presented it in the form of frequency tables, pie charts, and graphs.
Results:
The study results on knowledge revealed that 71.4% had received information about folic acid from health workers, 56.7% did not know the recommended time of starting folic acid, 83.3% knew that they should take one tablet daily and 53.3% knew anemia as a danger of not taking folic acid. Regarding attitude; 43.3% believed that folic acid should not be taken throughout pregnancy, 66.7% disagreed that folic acid can be taken without a prescription, and 76.7% did not feel comfortable taking folic acid during pregnancy.
Conclusion:
The study concluded that mothers were moderately knowledgeable about folic acid use during pregnancy although they had negative attitudes.
Recommendation:
It is recommended that health education about folic acid use should be strengthened through the media and at the health facility which will aid in improving mothers’ knowledge and attitudes
FACTORS INFLUENCING UTILISATION OF POSTNATAL CARE SERVICES AMONG MOTHERS AT KAJJANSI HEALTH CENTER IV, WAKISO DISTRICT NABAKOOZA TABITHA DIPLOMA IN NURSING. A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY.
No full textBackground:
Mothers are so much vulnerable to complications after child delivery which can greatly affect their health to the extent of claiming their lives these complications are preventable if the mothers utilize the PNC services put in place. This study aimed to find out the factors influencing the utilization of postnatal care services among mothers at Kajjansi health center IV, Wakiso district.
Methodology:
A descriptive quantitative cross‑sectional study was conducted at Kajjansi health center IV, Wakiso district. A questionnaire was administered after obtaining informed consent from 36 respondents that were present at the time of data collection. These were selected using a simple random sampling method. Results were tabulated, analyzed using Microsoft Excel, and presented using frequency tables, pie charts, and graphs.
Results:
This study established that the majority of 32(88.9%) of the respondents were aged between 20 - 30 years, and nearly all, 33(91.7%) lived in towns. 23(63.9%) of the respondents had information about post-natal services and 21(58.3%) of them, their society encouraged them to seek medical care after giving birth at the health facility; 28(77.7%) said that their cultures did not encourage mothers to deliver without help from a health care provider whereas nearly two thirds 23(63.9%) of them said nurses and midwives treat the mothers in a good way as they go to seek for postnatal care services
Conclusion:
Mothers used PNC services and the factors below; women’s residence, awareness of post-natal services, wealth status, marital status, occupation, antenatal care attendance, place of delivery, perceived accessibility of health facilities, and access to mass media messages, and many others were associated with greater use of PNC service.
Recommendations:
Educational programs with special emphasis on post-natal care services and mandatory participation in educational programs for all stakeholders are highly recommended to enhance the utilization of post-natal care services
Determinants of electronic documentation of patient data among nurses at Dr. Batta General Military Hospital, Entebbe, Wakiso District. A cross-sectional study.
Full text linkBackgroundThe integration of Electronic Health Records into healthcare systems is vital for improving documentation accuracy, care coordination, and patient safety. However, the adoption of electronic documentation by nurses in Uganda remains low. This study aimed to assess the individual and health facility-related determinants influencing the use of electronic documentation among nurses at Dr. Batta General Military Hospital, Entebbe.
Methodology
A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using structured self-administered questionnaires with a sample of 30 nurses selected through simple random sampling. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and presented in tables, bar graphs, and pie charts.
Results
The majority of respondents were aged 26–31 years (40.0%) and predominantly female (66.7%). Most nurses (83.3%) correctly understood the meaning of electronic documentation, and 60% had received prior training. However, key individual barriers included lack of skills or confidence (50.0%), fear of making mistakes (33.3%), and system complexity (33.3%) as the main reasons for non-use. On the health facility side, 56.7% of respondents reported insufficient electronic equipment, 63.3% indicated the absence of clear documentation guidelines, and 56.7% stated they lacked adequate support and supervision.
Conclusion
Electronic documentation among nurses is hindered by limited digital competence, resistance to change, inadequate refresher training, and negative perceptions. Institutional barriers such as poor infrastructure, weak leadership, and a lack of clear policies further exacerbate the challenge. Without addressing these barriers, the hospital risks continued inefficiencies in patient data management and care delivery.
Recommendations
The Ministry of Health should invest in targeted ICT and EHR training programs to boost nurses’ skills and confidence. Dr. Batta General Military Hospital must strengthen its technological infrastructure and provide consistent technical support. Hospital administration should simplify EHR systems and establish clear documentation policies to improve usability and compliance.
Factors influencing the occurrence of urinary tract infections in girls aged 14-19 years attending Wera seed secondary school, Wera sub county Amuria district. A cross-sectional study.
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Urinary Tract Infections are more common in females due to their shorter urethra, which allows easier entry of bacteria into the urinary system. This study was to assess factors influencing the occurrence of urinary tract infections among girls aged 14 to 19 years attending Wera Seed Secondary School in Wera Sub-County, Amuria District.
Methods
A descriptive Cross-sectional study design employing a quantitative research method was used to obtain data from a sample size of 40 girls aged 14 to 19 years in a duration of four days, sampled using a simple random sampling technique. A structured questionnaire was used, the data collected was analyzed, and findings were entered into Microsoft Excel 2013, then presented in tables and pie-charts.
Results
Among the 40 participants sampled, more than half (57.5%) of the respondents were aged 14–15 years, and 62.5% lived in rural areas. On adolescent-related factors, most (77%) always delayed urination due to embarrassment, more than half (55%) used homemade hygiene products, nearly half (45%) wore tight clothes, and most (70%) reported that their parents were not involved in guiding them on proper hygiene practices. Concerning School-related factors, almost all (92.5%) delayed urination due to school rules or activities, and (73%) sometimes had access to clean and private toilets at school.
Conclusion
The study found that the majority of the girls frequently delayed urination due to embarrassment and used homemade hygiene products.
Recommendation
There is a need to deploy health workers to regularly sensitize students on proper hygiene and the dangers of reusing sanitary materials or delaying urination
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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