ABSTRACT Background: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is a complication of pregnancy characterized by the increase of insulin resistance leading to maternal Hyperglycaemia and alteration of newborn blood glucose. Alteration of cord blood glucose level can be used to predict maternal glycemic state. A newborn cord blood glucose level is a characteristic of pregnancy complicated by Gestational diabetes mellitus. The prevalence of GDM globally ranges from 6-13% with 5-9% in subSaharan Africa...
ABSTRACT Background: Nursing students faces number of challenges which are associated with interest conflict toward the profession, learning motivation and perceived stress during clinical practice Objectives: To assess the levels of interest, motivation and perceived stress during clinical practice among nursing students in Tanzania Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study design was used to assess levels of interest, motivation and perceived stress during clinical practice among nursing...
ABSTRACT Background: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including preeclampsia and eclampsia are the major health problem among the pregnant women and the main causes of the maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality which accounts 19% of deaths in Tanzania. This study intended to assess knowledge and Myths about preeclampsia and eclampsia and its influence on antenatal care services utilization among expecting couples in Mtwara region. Method: A community based cross-sectional analyti...
ABSTRACT Background: The substance abuse among adolescentsespecially secondary school students remains a significant public health issue. The substance abuse has strong correlation with delinquency behaviour. This study intended to determine psychosocial determinants of delinquency behaviour and substance abuse among adolescents in secondary schools at Kongwa District and Dodoma City. Methods and Materials Analytical, cross-Sectional study design with quantitative approach self-administered ...
Abstract Leaching and speciation of heavy metals in stabilized gold mine tailings were investigated by using leaching tests and leaching model (Visual MINTEQ 3.1®) respectively. Results indicate that the Stabilized/Solidified (S/S) tailings has high acid neutralizing capacity, which is dependent on binder content used. The dissolution of alkaline metals and oxyanions (such as SO4 2-, HCO3 2-) raises both the pH and electric conductivity of the leachant and, in-turn, affects leaching of the ...
ABSTRACT Background: Children with sickle cell disease are prone to a multitude of disease related complications, improving caregivers‟ knowledge on common precipitate factors of sickle related complication and encouraging home based preventive intervention can change the overall wellbeing of these children. This study aimed to evaluate the level of knowledge and based practice of caregivers and its relation to SCD control. . Methods: Quantitative hospital based cross-sectional analytical ...
Abstract This paper presents results of the investigation of Chromium III removal from tannery wastewater using groundnut shells under laboratory scale batch experiments. The effects of pH, contact time, particle size and dosage of the adsorbent on the adsorption of Cr (III) were studied. Determination of Chromium ion concentration in the wastewater was done using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS). Results show that removal mechanism is dominantly adsorption, which is dependent of th...
ABSTRACT Background: Competence-Based Education Training (CBET) was introduced in Tanzania early 2009 to influence academic outcomes among nurse student to be able to link theory and clinical practice in order for them to deliver quality and costeffective care to patients. Despite its strength, nurse students still lack sound clinical judgments, critical thinking, good communication and problem-solving skills. This situation raises a number of questions that there is something missing in the...
Abstract Background: Prompt diagnosis and effective treatment are considered the cornerstones of malaria control and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is currently the main anti-malarial drugs used for case management. After deployment of ACT due to widespread parasite resistance to the cheap and widely used anti-malarial drugs, chloroquine and sulphadoxine/pyrimethamine, the World Health Organization recommends regular surveillance to monitor the efficacy of the new drugs. The pre...
ABSTRACT Background: Globally around 13million people are injecting drugs and 1.7million of them are living with HIV. Injecting drug users have created and remain a major international public health problem. Objective: This study aimed to determine factors associated with high risk of injection behaviors among injection drug user (IDU’s) in Zanzibar. Methods: A cross-sectional study design using a quantitative approach was conducted in Zanzibar islands. A total of 1308 injection drug user...
ABSTRACT Background: Sickle cell disease is a blood disorder which has become very common today. Tanzania is fourth in the world with the highest Sickle cell disease birth rates (Piel et al., 2013). Between 7800 and 11,000 children with Sickle cell disease are born in Tanzania every year (Makani et al., 2018). Despite all the efforts, there is an increasing number of hospital admissions of children with sickle cell disease complications, and it is not known if caregivers have competence on p...
ABSTRACT Community pharmacies are major sources of medicines in most communities in Nigeria. Clients visit community pharmacies to seek help in medication therapy from community pharmacist,who has a professional responsibility to protect the public from the dangers of self medication through provision of adequate medication counselling. It is however not known to what extent community pharmacists fulfil this roles. The aim of this study was to examine the nature, extent and adequacy of medica...
ABSTRACT Malaria, a preventable disease, caused by a protozoan parasite, accounts for about 300-500million clinical cases and two million deaths world-wide annually. Ninety per cent of this occurs in countries south of the Sahara. It is responsible for about 25% of all childhood mortality. It is estimated that at least 50% of the population will have at least one attack of malaria in a year. It is one of largest contributor to disease burden in Nigeria. There were two million cases of malaria...
ABSTRACT Background The acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitude in provision of health care services is an important package in order to bring nursing competence, this calls for innovative teaching methodologies due to lack of nursing clinical competence. Objective: To assess the effect of simulation based teaching on improving competence among diploma student nurses, for the prevention of post-partum hemorrhage in Dodoma Tanzania Methodology: The study was a Quantitative approach by ...
ABSTRACT Background: Children with surgical needs represent a high burden of disease, and lack of access to surgical care continues to threaten the health of millions of children worldwide and limit economic growth and development. Despite these outstanding efforts, failure to notice the need for surgical care for children continues within the global health agenda. Methods: A Hospital-based descriptive cross-sectional study in determining the Predictors of Poor Outcome in Emergency Pediatric...