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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Aggressive Behavior among Patients with Schizophrenia at Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia: a Cross-Sectional Study Design
Abstract: Introduction: Mental illness and aggression are often seen as inextricably linked. There is a growing body of evidence on aggressive behavior towards others by people with schizophrenia. Therefore, this study was designed to determine the prevalence of aggressive behavior and associated factors among people with schizophrenia. Method: Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted during 6–31 May 2019 at the Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia. A total of 423 participants …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Neuroscience · Vol. 9, Issue 3, 2019 · pp. 1–10 Read article
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Prevalence of Perceived Stigma and Associated Factors among People with Epilepsy in Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2019
Abstract: AbstractBackground: Epilepsy is defined as the most common, chronic, noninfectious neurologic disease that attacks around fifty up to sixty-nine million peoples without any age, sex, religion, ethnicity boundaries. Stigma is typically a practiced or predicted social system, characterized by exclusion or rejection of a person or group. Now a day perceived stigma among people with epilepsy become public health problems in the world. Perceived stigma in epileptic patients affects many …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Neuroscience · Vol. 10, Issue 2, 2020 · pp. 24–35 Read article
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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Associated Factors of Emergency Contraceptive Pills among Female Youths in Mekelle City, Tigray Region, North Ethiopia
Abstract: For girls and young women aged 15–19, pregnancy and childbirth is the number one killer. It’s the cause of 50,000 deaths of teenage girls every year. Ensuring that adolescent girls are able to use suitable contraception to delay the age at which they first become pregnant is a key part of the family planning challenge. Around 16 million girls between the ages of 15 and 19 give birth each year. …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Health Professions · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 7–21 Read article
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Mothers Practice and Associated Factors on Kangaroo Mother Care, in Mekelle City Hospitals Tigray, North Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Survey
Abstract: Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a special way of holding low birth weight, preterm and hypothermic babies with skin-to-skin contact between the mother and the newborn in a position like a kangaroo. Most neonatal units in the world do not has appropriate space and material to offer a comfort to mothers providing a continuous KMC. In Ethiopia, KMC has not expanded as broadly as we hoped. To assess the practice …
Published in Research and Reviews : A Journal of Immunology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 21–31 Read article
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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Blood Donation Among Students of Health Science in Private University College in Mekelle, Tigray, and Ethiopia
Abstract: Background: Human blood is an important element of human life. Incidentally, there is no substitute to blood hence donation of blood by humans is of utmost importance. Millions of blood units are collected from donors every year but demands are increasing day by day that is pushing for sufficient and timely provision of blood. Because of that the theme for Blood Donation Day in 2017 focuses on emergency situations, “Give …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Medicine · Vol. 8, Issue 3, 2018 · pp. 30–46 Read article
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Factors Associated with Relapse in Schizophrenia Patients Who are on Follow Up at Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital and Mekelle General Hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018/19
Abstract: Schizophrenia is a chronic and disabling illness; relapse is recognized as the reemergence or the worsening of positive and/or negative psychotic symptoms, hospital admission or readmission. Factors that associated with relapse; substance use disorders, noncompliance of medicine, side effect experience of antipsychotic, poor social support, co-morbidity of other mental illness and chronic medical condition. The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with relapse in schizophrenia patients who …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Neuroscience · Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2020 · pp. 9–15 Read article
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Determinants of Survival among Hemodialysis Patients at Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Tigray, North Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Abstract: Background: Chronic kidney disease is a common public health problem with increase the incidence and prevalence, which nearly doubled as a cause of death worldwide. However, the access to care and knowledge about the predictors of survival among hemodialysis patients is extremely limited in Ethiopia. The aim of this study is, therefore, to identify predictors of survival among hemodialysis patients. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted by reviewing records …
Published in Research and Reviews: Journal of Oncology and Hematology · Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2018 · pp. 22–29 Read article
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Practice of Breast Self-Examination among Female Health Care Professionals in Maichew Town Health Facilities, Tigray, Ethiopia: Institution Based Cross-Sectional Study
Abstract: Breast cancer is among the major life-threatening public health concerns and its incidence is increasing worldwide. Breast self-exam (BSE) is commendation for all women starting in their 20s to know how their breasts normally look and feel like and to notice any changes occur. They should be told about its benefits and limitations too. It is an important procedure in the early detection of breast cancer. It is estimated that …
Published in Research and Reviews: Journal of Oncology and Hematology · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 30–37 Read article
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Adherence Level to Iron Folic Acid Supplementation and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women in Mekele City, Tigray, Ethiopia
Abstract: The aim of this study was to assess the adherence level to iron folic acid supplementation and its associated factors among pregnant women. Relation of explanatory variables with adherence levels was examined using bivariate analysis without adjusting the effect of other factors. Finally, logistic regression was conducted to see the net effect of each variable by adjusting to the rest of the variables. Adherence level in this study was 59.8%. …
Published in Journal of Nursing Science & Practice · Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 · pp. 13–20 Read article
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Perceptions of Health Care Providers and the Community on the Management of Possible Serious Bacterial Infection (PSBI) in Young Infants where Referral is not Possible: A Qualitative Study
Abstract: Introduction: Every year, about 2.8 million children die in the first month of life, with 98% of these deaths occurring in developing countries. The current World Health Organization recommendation for management of infections in neonates and young infants (0–59 days old) is referral for hospital treatment with a 7 to 10 day course of a combination of two injectable antibiotics – Penicillin or Ampicillin plus Gentamicin. However, existing evidence demonstrates …
Published in Research and Reviews : A Journal of Immunology · Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2017 · pp. 23–27 Read article
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Women’s Land Tenure Security in Sustainable Development
Abstract: Appropriate land ownership policy is critical issue in order for vast majority of population living in rural areas whose income is dependent on agricultural. For that land tenure security is momentous concern. Land tenure is Latin word, tenure, which means to hold. Thus, land tenure means a kind of system of land ownership or holding the land. The rules of the land tenure system define how property rights to land …
Published in Journal of Production Research & Management · Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 21–30 Read article
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Magnitude and Factors Associated with Tetanus Toxoid Vaccination among Female Youth in Mekelle City, Ethiopia: A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study
Abstract: Introduction: Tetanus can occur worldwide, and, in all age-groups, who acquire the infection through unhygienic conditions and in the youths, who have insufficient antitoxins due to no or sub-optimal immunization to protect themselves and their newborn babies. Objectives: To assess the magnitude and factors associated with tetanus toxoid immunization among female youths in Mekelle City, Tigray Regional state, Ethiopia. Method: Community based cross sectional study design was conducted. A total …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Health Professions · Vol. 9, Issue 3, 2019 · pp. 11–21 Read article
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ASSESSMENT ON THE KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF SUBSTANCE USE AMONG PREPARATORY STUDENTS OF MEKELLE.
Abstract: Background: Substance abuse has been defined by Asuni et al. as 'excessive or inappropriate use of psycho-active substance by a person; such use being considered or judged to be illegal/immoral by the culture and resulting in harm to the person or society'. Globally, the UNODC estimates that between 155 and 250 million people, or 3.5% to 5.7% of the population aged 15–64 years, had used illicit substances at least once …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Medicine · Vol. 8, Issue 3, 2018 · pp. 6–26 Read article