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0000-0003-3320-8329
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University of Wollongong
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Bahir Dar University College of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-2021
DOI: 10.1186/S13643-021-01840-0
Abstract: Though cervical cancer is largely preventable, it is still the second most common female cancer globally and the leading cause of cancer deaths among females in African. Though many efforts have been done to study the burden of the disease in Ethiopia, primary studies examining the prevalence of precancerous cervical lesions are fragmented. Hence, this systematic review and meta-analysis is aimed at estimating the pooled prevalence of precancerous cervical lesion and its trends in Ethiopia. This systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted using the following electronic databases. PubMed, Web of Science, SCOPUS, Science Direct, Google Scholar, African Index Medicus (AIM), African Journals Online databases, and Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar Universities research repositories were searched following the Preferred Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) Guideline. STATA 15 statistical software was used to analyze the data. The quality of the included studies was assessed using the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) quality appraisal tool for meta-analysis. Heterogeneity between studies was assessed using the Cochrane Q test and I 2 test statistics based on the random effects model. A random effects model was computed to estimate the pooled prevalence of precancerous cervical lesion in Ethiopia. Finally, the trend of precancerous cervical lesion in the country was presented. Seventeen studies with a total of 26,112 participants were included in the analysis. The pooled prevalence of precancerous cervical lesion was 15.16 ( 95% CI 10.16–19.70). The subgroup analysis by region showed the highest prevalence of precancerous cervical lesion at the Southern Nations and Nationalities Peoples Region (19.65% 95% CI 15.51–23.80). The trend of precancerous cervical lesion prevalence showed an increased pattern over time. Approximately one among six of the study participants had precancerous cervical lesion. The trend also showed that there is still an increasing precancerous cervical lesion in Ethiopia. Best practices in achieving high vaccination coverage shall be informed by practices in other successful countries.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-09-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-03-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-08-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-01-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-05-2020
DOI: 10.1186/S12891-020-03341-Y
Abstract: Nurses in Africa are arguably the most important frontline healthcare workers available in most healthcare facilities, performing a broad range of tasks. Such tasks are considerably presumed in the causation of workload. Nursing is listed among the highly risky professions for developing low back pain. The nursing profession is ranked within the top ten professions which have a great risk of low back pain. Hence, this review aimed to ascertain whether low back pain is a significant concern for nurses in African healthcare facilities. A comprehensive literature search of different databases with no date limit was conducted from September to November 2018 using the PRISMA guideline. The quality of the included studies was assessed using a 12-item rating system. Subgroup and sensitivity analyses were performed. Cochran’s Q and the I 2 test were used to assess heterogeneity. The presence of publication bias was evaluated by using Egger’s test and visual inspection of the symmetry in funnel plots. In this review, 19 studies from different African regions with a total s le size of 6110 nurses were included. All the studies were carried out between 2000 and 2018. Among these, the lowest and the highest prevalence were found to be 44.1 and 82.7% respectively. The estimation of the prevalence rate of low back pain among nurses using the random-effects model was found to be 64.07% (95% CI: 58.68–69.46 P -value 0.0001). Heterogeneity of the reviewed studies was I 2 = 94.2% and heterogeneity Chi-squared = 310.06 (d.f = 18), P -value 0.0001. The subgroup analyses showed that the highest prevalence of LBP among nurses was from West African region with prevalence rates of 68.46% (95% CI: 54.94–81.97 P -value 0.0001) and followed by North Africa region with prevalence rate of 67.95% (95% CI: 55.96–79.94 P-value 0.0001). Even though the overall prevalence of the present study is lower when compared to the Western and Asian studies, it indicated that the prevalence of low back pain among nurses is substantial.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2020
DOI: 10.1186/S13690-020-00509-9
Abstract: Literatures revealed that healthcare-associated infections are still a great concern in many developing countries including in Ethiopia. Despite the development of detailed guidelines for infection control, they remain as a critical challenge for the public health sectors and the knowledge of standard precautions among healthcare workers in many developing countries is low and not properly applied. Hence, the present study tried to determine the level of knowledge about standard precautions among healthcare workers of Amhara region, Ethiopia. Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted on a randomly selected public hospitals of Amhara region, Northwest Ethiopia from March 01–April 01/2017. A multistage s ling strategy was utilized to select 795 s led healthcare workers. Data were collected using pretested self-administered questionnaire. The collected data entered using EpiData Version 3.1 statistical software and analyzed using SPSS version 20 statistical package. After using binary logistic regression, multivariable logistic regression analysis used to form the model. Variables which had statistically significant association with the outcome variable ( P 0.05) were identified as significant in the multivariable logistic regression analysis. Almost half (49.2%) of the study participants were female healthcare workers. Three-fourth (74.3%) of the healthcare workers involved in the current study had good knowledge towards standard precautions. Good knowledge towards standard precautions refers to scoring correct responses to 60% of knowledge items from the survey. Year of service (AOR: 0.27, 95% CI: 0.16 to 0.44), educational status (AOR: 1.7, 95% CI: 1.13 to 2.56) were among the predictor variables. In addition, physicians were 6.97 times more likely to be knowledgeable (AOR: 6.97, 95% CI 2.42 to 20.12) than laboratory technician/technology counterparts. Study participants working in medical, Gyn/obs, pediatrics wards, and OPD were about 2.23, 4.27, 2.81 and 2.52 times more likely to be knowledgeable than study participants working in surgical ward. Overall, the majority of healthcare workers had good knowledge of standard precautions. But variation in knowledge was detected across healthcare workers by hospital type and ward/units. This may help to design a solution by prioritizing the problem.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-10-2022
DOI: 10.1002/NOP2.1420
Abstract: This study aimed to examine the differences in health status between patients with confirmed COVID‐19 and those suspected (other diagnosis) and to identify nursing diagnoses using a structured checklist from a hospital in China. Cross‐sectional study design was used. One hundred sixty COVID‐19 confirmed, and suspected patients were conveniently selected. A structured survey and checklist were utilized. Independent t test and chi‐square test were employed to compare the mean between patients with confirmed coronavirus infection and others. A two‐sided p ‐value of .05 or less is considered statistically significant. The study yielded a response rate of 93.6%. The result indicated that patients with confirmed coronavirus infection have a higher proportion of perceived General Health Status than inpatients with suspected (other) diagnoses. The finding also indicated that ineffective airway clearance, hyperthermia, imbalanced nutrition less than body requirement and sleep pattern disturbance were the main nursing diagnoses identified.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-09-2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-06-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2023
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S416942
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-04-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-05-2019
Publisher: Academic Journals
Date: 31-03-2017
Publisher: African Journals Online (AJOL)
Date: 15-08-2018
DOI: 10.4314/AHS.V18I3.20
Location: Ethiopia
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