“…Brought together in May 2020 during the global COVID-19 pandemic, it particularly aims to support non specialist healthcare workers who find themselves caring for people with mental disorders for the first time. …”
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“…A response rate of 94% was achieved. SPSS version 19.0 was used to analyse the data. Results of this study revealed the factors that contribute to effective clinical teaching as: clinical teaching environment (79.9%, n=104), use of innovative clinical teaching methods(18.6%, n=24), adequate clinical teaching resources (10.2%, n=13), small number of nursing students (71.2, n=93), year of study (44.1%, n=57) and learning outcomes for the clinical setting (54.2%, n=70).Among the recommendations is empowering nursing students to actively participate in their own learning and evaluation of own achievement of clinical objectives as these are critical to their development as competent, self-directing professionals, capable of assuming responsibilities inherent in the ever-changing and expanding health care system.…”
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“…Increased antimicrobial resistance was the cause of severe infections in the year 2012 in Malawi. Out of a total of 100,000 recorded deaths, 70,200 (70.1%) were attributable to infectious diseases. …”
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“…The main clinical diagnoses on discharge were viral/reactive lower respiratory tract diseases 211/470 (44.9%), pneumonia 89/470 (18.8%), gastroenteritis 64/470 (13.6%) and presumed sepsis 57/470 (12.0%). …”
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“…Quantitative data were analyzed using the statistical package SPSS Version 20.0 and descriptive statistics were run for frequencies, means and standard deviations. …”
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“…Association was noted between awareness of hypertension and participants’ age (p = 0.021) and education level (p = 0.000). The study highlights the presence of knowledge gaps and practices that facilitate hypertension development. …”
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“…This research study is going to employ a qualitative research design and a sample of 20 subjects will be recruited using convenient sampling. …”
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“…Data was analyzed using Stata version 14.0. Mean age was 72 years with SD of 8.5. Overall, about 24.69% (n=200) of participants were depressed with 40.49% having minimal depression, 26.47% mild depression, 9.01% moderate depression, and 2.43% having moderate to severe depression. …”
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“…The attendance of group IEC was significantly associated with acquisition of knowledge on STI transmission (χ2=273.347, df=3, p value=0.000) and time adequacy opinion (χ2= 271.806, df=1, p value=0.000). …”
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“…There was no significant difference in demographic attributes between mothers who used MWH and those who did not use MWH (P≥0.050). However, significant difference was identified on the following obstetric risk factors: malaria in pregnancy (p=0.030), severe anaemia in pregnancy (p=0.014), and breech presentation (p=0.042) between mothers who used MWH and those who did not use MWH. …”
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“…Hypoxia had odds ratio of 2.0(95% CI 1.2–3.4) for hypoglycaemia and 1.5 (95% CI 1.2–1.9) for hyperglycaemia whilst for reduced coma score the odds was 6.5(95% CI 4.2–10.2) and 2.3(95% CI 1.8–2.9) respectively. …”
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“…An equal number of males and females were enrolled into the study, 50% (n=15) males and 50% (n=15) female. The participants' ages ranged from 18 to 64 years but the majority ranged from 20 to 24 years falling in the sexually active group of 15 to 49 years. …”
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“…Systematic random sampling was used to select 128 vendors and 127 buyers who met the inclusion criteria at Lilongwe Central Market. …”
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“…Findings also revealed that only 20% of the participants underwent TB screening.80% of the participants did not go for latent TB screening and cited several reasons for their not going. 53% of the participants cited fear of unknown and 63% mentioned fear of being stigmatized as the reason for not going for LTBI screening. …”
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“…Data analysis was conducted using SPSS version 20.0 and Statistics were presented using frequencies, tables and charts. …”
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“…For instance, the average mortality rate at QECH in 2014-2015 was at 20.8% which is two times higher compared to the World Health Organization (WHO) cut off point of less than 10%. …”
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“…Data was analysed using a Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. The researcher computed the statistics in form of frequency tables, pie charts and graphs to summarise the data. …”
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“…Of 81 Diabetes patients, 82.7% (n=62) had good knowledge and 26.6 % (n=21) had good practice on foot care. …”
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“…The mean age was 31 years (SD: 6.2); 68 % (55) were female; 65% (52) were married. 21(26%) of the participants were from antenatal, 27(33%) from labour, 20(25%) from postnatal wards and 13 (16%) worked in all departments (antenatal, labour and postnatal wards). …”
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“…Globallythereare2.1millionadolescentslivingwithHIV.1.7millionarein subSaharanAfrica.MalawihasoneofthehighestHIV/AIDSprevalenceratesinthe worldwith12.0%ofthoseaged15-49yearsinfected.AdherencetoARThasprovedto bedifficultforpeoplelivingwithHIVandoftenfallsbelowtherequiredlevelsandthus, youthslivingwithHIVareamongthepopulationgroupswithpoorerARTadherence rates.Fidelityisdefinedasadherence,integrityandqualityofimplementationofan intervention.HoweverhighlevelsofadherencearecrucialtothesuccessofHIV therapiesinordertosustainviralsuppression. …”
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