“…Findings of the study revealed four major issues that emerged as the cause of pregnant women's delay to access timely delivery care from the hospital. These were delay in making a decision to go to the hospital after labor had started, poverty, poor transportation system and inefficient health services at the health facility visited at fist when labor began.…”
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“…However, despite the fact that much is known on importance of restricting visiting hours in ICU, the study found that family and friends were not happy with the current visiting time. The main concern was on the actual period of 30 minutes, which they viewed as not enough for all the visitors. …”
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“…There was a significant association between age and number of admissions (P=0.022) and no link between knowledge and self care practices (P>0.05). …”
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“…Families need to be involved because they are custodians of valuable information for provision of care. QECH is the main referral hospital which provides specialised care to children across Malawi. …”
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“…Admission of a child to Critical Care Unit (CCU) is an unexpected and stressful event for the caregiver which may result in physical and mental exhaustion. …”
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“…The findings have highlighted the gaps in knowledge, practices and barriers to foot care in DM patients. …”
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“…Care givers that had attained complete primary education were 2 times more likely to meet child minimum dietary diversity as compared to caregivers with no education [OR 2.5 (95% CI:0.27,24.8)]. …”
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“…However, despite the fact that much is known on importance of restricting visiting hours in ICU, the study found that family and friends were not happy with the current visiting time. The main concern was on the actual period of 30 minutes, which they viewed as not enough for all the visitors. …”
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“…More men will be recruited in this study so as to get more views from them since they are the ones who have the problem of not taking part in VCT. …”
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“…Therefore, recommendations are made to sensitise people on oxygen therapy through mass media and health talks, and the government has to design posters on oxygen therapy.…”
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“…Study findings revealed lack of adequate knowledge for hypertensive clients about the disease process and its cause, need for psychological support from health workers and also the usefulness of the medical clinic for the general public. Recommendations were made basing on the results, emphasizing the importance of the information, education and communication (IEC) to hypertensive clients and also establishment of other medical clinic services within the Central Region to cater for those clients living in other districts in order to promote health and maintain self-care management at home. …”
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“…The majority of the mothers had some primary school education and they were all married. All the postnatal mothers attended antenatal care. …”
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“…The 2015 Malawi annual SAM burden was estimated at about 79, 301 under five children (Kouam, 2016). The need for health care workers to have knowledge in management of severe acute malnutrition has been emphasized in many studies. …”
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“…Despite many people being tested HIV positive not all have been linked to HIV care. …”
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“…Data will be collected through face to face interview using semi-structured questionnaire developed by the researcher and it will be analyzed manually. …”
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“…A majority of participants were male at 79%, while 64% of the participants were within the young and productive age. 57%, had more than 10 years of experience working in government at senior level management while 71% of the participants had graduate level training. …”
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“…Main themes identified from the findings were; adolescents’ behaviours during service delivery, views on YFSRHS utilization, motivation to provision of YFSRHS, challenges providers encounter, and suggestions on improving provision of YFSRHS to adolescents. …”
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“…As such provision of timely, quality care to this age-group helps save lives and it also results in 46% reduction of all neurological impairments. …”
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