Browsing by Subject "Healthcare workers"
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Adherence to malaria management guidelines by health care workers in the Busoga Sub-region, Eastern Uganda
(BMC, 2022)Background: Appropriate malaria management is a key malaria control strategy. The objective of this study was to determine health care worker adherence levels to malaria case management guidelines in the Busoga sub-region, ... -
Adherence to Standard Infection Prevention & Control & factors associated among healthcare workers at Juba Teaching Hospital,Juba,South Sudan.
(Makerere University, 2022-04-11)Background: Hospital acquired infections such as COVID-19 and Sepsis, among others, have become a serious threat to healthcare workers’ productivity and patient safety in hospitals worldwide. Therefore, healthcare workers’ ... -
Factors associated with healthcare workers’ adherence to national guidelines for MDR TB surveillance in Uganda: A case study of the West Nile region
(Makerere University, 2014)Background: A previous history of tuberculosis (TB) treatment has been identified as a risk factor for multidrug resistant TB. Therefore these patients are a high priority group for whom culture and drug-susceptibility ... -
Factors associated with job satisfaction among healthcare workers at Arua Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-08)Background: Human resources are vital for delivering health services, and health systems cannot function effectively without sufficient numbers of skilled, motivated, and well-supported health workers. Job satisfaction of ... -
Factors associated with uptake of Hepatitis B Virus Vaccination among health care workers in Agago District, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023)Introduction/background: Hepatitis B is a potentially life-threatening viral liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Several factors are known to influence HBV vaccine uptake among HCWs, however for Agago ... -
Health care workers’ experiences of managing foetal distress and birth asphyxia at health facilities in Northern Uganda
(BMC, 2021-01)Background: Birth asphyxia is one of the leading causes of intrapartum stillbirth and neonatal mortality worldwide. We sought to explore the experiences of health care workers in managing foetal distress and birth asphyxia ... -
Healthcare workers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, Arua District, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023)Background: Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) remains a public health crisis and a health security threat. The incidence of MDR TB in Uganda is 3.2 cases per 100,000 population. Cumulatively the MDR TB unit in the Arua ... -
Tuberculosis screening knowledge, attitude and practice of healthcare workers attending to antenatal care mothers in Bunyangabu District health facilities
(Makerere University, 2022-12)Background: Pregnant women are at risk of developing active tuberculosis, and if not identified and treated early, it poses life-threatening complications to both the mother and fetus. The aim of this study was to determine ... -
Uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare workers in Omoro District Uganda: A mixed methods study
(Makerere University, 2023-11-27)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic affected the world, and healthcare workers were at high risk of acquiring the virus. Although much progress has been made in vaccine development, healthcare workers' acceptance of COVID-19 ...