Browsing Academic submissions (CHS) by Issue Date "2017"
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Can an educational podcast improve the ability of parents of primary school children to assess the reliability of claims made about the benefits and harms of treatments : study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
(BioMed Central, 2017)Background: Claims made about the effects of treatments are very common in the media and in the population more generally. The ability of individuals to understand and assess such claims can affect their decisions and ... -
Clinical and cranial computed tomography scan findings in adults following road traffic accidents in Kampala, Uganda.
(African Health Sciences, 2017)Background: Globally, road traffic accidents are a major cause of death and disability. The developing countries bear a disproportionately large share of the RTAs which account for about 85% of the deaths. Most of these ... -
Consumer health information literacy promotion program in public and community libraries in Africa : experience from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017)The aim of this project was to enhance the capacity of public and community librarians in four African countries (Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe) in meeting the consumer health information (CHI) needs of their patrons. ... -
Effects of the informed health choices podcast on the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess claims about treatment effects : A randomised controlled trial
(The Lancent, 2017)Background: As part of the Informed Health Choices project, we developed a podcast called "The Health Choices Programme" to help improve the ability of people to assess claims about the benefits and harms of treatments. ... -
Effects of the Informed Health Choices primary school intervention on the ability of children in Uganda to assess the reliability of claims about treatment effects : A cluster-randomised controlled trial
(2017)Background: Claims about what improves or harms our health are ubiquitous. People need to be able to assess the reliability of these claims. We aimed to evaluate an intervention designed to teach primary school children ... -
The horizon of information sharing at Makerere University : multimedia, audiovisual and the linked open data
(Science Publishing Group, 2017)Makerere University has, in the recent past, climbed up the academic and research ranks, globally, and this has been supported by excellent information services, covering all available information resource formats and ... -
Knowledge Attitude and Practice of Medical Photography among Postgraduate Students at Makerere University College of Health Sciences
(Makerere University, 2017)BACKGROUND Medical Photography is concerned with taking images that are beneficial to medical practice. As a specialized area of photography, it entails the documentation of clinical presentation of patients, medical and ... -
Knowledge, attitude and usage of medical animations as a complementary learning resource by undergraduates at Makerere University College of Health Sciences
(Makerere University, 2017)Background: A medical animation is a short educational film, usually based around medical topic rendered using three-dimensional computer graphics. It evolved from the field of realistic medical illustrations such as those ... -
Outcome at two weeks in patients with Traumatic brain injury following road traffic accidents in an urban tertiary hospital in Uganda
(Congent Medicine, 2017): Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are a major global public health problem and are now a recognized neglected pandemic. Head injuries cause immediate death in 25% of acute trauma. We conducted this study to determine the ... -
Where is students' research in evidence-informed decision-making in health? Assessing productivity and use of postgraduate students' research in low- and middle-income countries : a systematic review
(BioMed Central, 2017)Background: Investing in research that is not accessible or used is a waste of resources and an injustice to human subject participants. Post-graduate students’ research in institutions of higher learning involves considerable ...