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2023 | INOSR ARTS AND HUMANITIES | Pp. 24-29,
Cancer is a devastating disease that has a significant impact on the mental health ofpatients. However, social support has been identified as a crucial factor in mitigating thenegative impact of cancer on mental health outcomes. This article reviews the liter...
2023 | INOSR ARTS AND HUMANITIES | Pp. 16-19
Music education has long been recognized for its benefits to individuals of all ages. Recentstudies have focused on the positive impact of music education on cognitive developmentand academic achievement in adolescents. This article aims to explore the positi...
2023 | INOSR ARTS AND HUMANITIES | Pp. 20-23,
Mindfulness meditation is a technique that has gained popularity in recent years due to itsability to reduce stress and improve overall well-being. This paper examines the impact ofmindfulness meditation on workplace productivity and employee well-being. The...
2023 | INOSR Scientific Research | Pp. 40-50
In the lives of girls and women, there is that adolescence stage marked by the onset ofmenstruation, onwards until menopause. Reproductive health and menstrual hygiene areimportant aspects of their lives yet information, knowledge, and practices of menstrualh...
2023 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY | Pp. 14-30
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) still remain a great public health problem of majorsignificance in most parts of the world. The incidence of acute STD is believed to be highamong sexually active adolescents worldwide due to changes and development in the...
2023 | INOSR Scientific Research | Pp. 15-26,
Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer affecting women and is the secondrelated death among women worldwide. In Uganda, breast cancer is the commonestcancer after Kaposi’s sarcoma with an incidence of 23.4 per 100,000 women. Women inUganda look at b...
2023 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY | Pp. 31-46
Unsafe sex was very common among the youth as they got involved into unprotected andunsafe sex practices due to factors like lack of parental support and guidance, breakdown ofparent-child communication and cultural factors among others. The purpose of this s...
2023 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF APPLIED SCIENCES | Pp. 122-133,
Today, tablets are one of the most widely used pharmaceutical dosage forms. Both activepharmaceutical ingredients (API) and inactive ingredients such as disintegrants are found inpharmaceutical dosage forms. Disintegrants are essential for dissolving the tabl...
2023 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY | Pp. 1-13
Despite several interventions put in place in many countries of the world, preeclampsia stillcontributes greatly to maternal morbidity and mortality. Several factors have been cited toincrease the risk of preeclampsia among which are obesity, extreme age, Nul...
2023 | INOSR APPLIED SCIENCES | Pp. 78-85
The study was done to determine the prevalence of rotavirus diarrhea among children 3to 24 months old at Fort Portal Regional Referral hospital. This was a hospital based crosssectional, descriptive and analytical study design to determine the prevalence,dehy...