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2023 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES | Pp. 10-20
In Uganda, mothers use Herbal Medicines in pregnancy and labor at increasing rates, consequently, this results to premature labor, fetal distress, precipitate labor, risk of abortion and many others. This study aimed at identifying factors leading to increase...
2023 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES | Pp. 33-43
Globally, it is estimated that nearly 500,000 women die annually from causes related to pregnancy and child birth and 99% of these deaths occur in developing countries. Male involvement in the antenatal care services clearly goes against prevailing gender nor...
2023 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES | Pp. 1-9
The objective of this study was to assess for factors associated with depression among people living with HIV attending Bushenyi Health Center IV in Bushenyi District. A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out among 80 ART patients who were assessed...
2023 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ALLIED FIELDS | Pp. 38-45
This study focused on factors affecting health workers in the implementation of EMTCT services at Bushenyi Health Centre IV. The objectives of the study were, to find out the health worker-based factors affecting health workers in the implementation of EMTCT...
2023 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ALLIED FIELDS | Pp. 15-27
fertility, make informed decision on the number of children they want to have. The purposeof this study was to assess the factors contributing to the underutilization of artificialcontraceptive methods among female nursing students of KIU Ishaka-Bushenyi. The...
2023 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND PHARMACY (NIJPP) | Pp. 33-49
Unplanned pregnancies among university students are an important public health issue in both developed anddeveloping countries because of its negative association with social, psychological and health outcomes for bothmothers and the children. The rate of unp...
2023 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | Pp. 100-106
This study utilizes response surface methodology (RSM) to estimate the engineeringparameters of PFAP/silumin composites. The tensile strengths of the developed compositeswere evaluated using a Box-Behnken design (BBD), considering factors such as weightfracti...
2023 | 2023 OPEN ACCESS © Constance N. Nwadike and Emmanuel Ifeanyi Obeagu This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, prov | Pp. 1-8
This study was aimed at evaluating the association of acute phase protein with diurnal variation of blood pressureamong healthy pre and post-menopausal women. The study population consisted of 40 postmenopausal women andpremenopausal women (Control). Blood sa...
2023 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES (NIJBAS | Pp. 14-26
A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out among midwives at Kampala International University Hospitalto assess their knowledge and practices on neonatal resuscitation. A sample size of 30 midwives was used. Midwiveswere selected by using a systemati...
2023 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ALLIED FIELDS | Pp. 1-14
The Global Status Report revealed that disease burden as measured by disability-adjustedlife years (DALYs) attributed to alcohol and drug use as being significantly higher in Americaand Europe. However, the overall disease burden attributable to alcoholism is...