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Bridging the Gap in Implementation Science: Evaluating a Capacity-Building Program in Data Management, Analysis, Utilization, and Dissemination in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Building capacity in implementation science within health programs is dependent on training in theory and practice of epidemiology, statistics, and research in addition to high self-efficacy toward application of training. This article describes a training program providing technical assistance to more than 300 health facilities in Kenya and Tanzania, its evaluation results, and its ability to improve participants' knowledge, competencies, and self-efficacy on data management, analysis, and dissemination among health care professionals. Two months prior to the trainin
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Compliance with follow‐up and adherence to medication in hypertensive patients in an urban informal settlement in Kenya: comparison of three models of care
Objective: To determine and compare, among three models of care, compliance with scheduled clinic appointments and adherence to antihypertensive medication of patients in an informal settlement of Kibera, Kenya.
Ng'endo Kuria, Anthony Reid Philip Owiti Hannock Tweya Caleb Kipkurui Kibet Lilian Mbau Marcel Manzi Victor Murunga Tecla Namusonge Joseph Kibachio (2018). “Compliance with follow‐up and adherence to medication in hypertensive patient
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Understanding different positions on female genital cutting among Maasai and Samburu communities in Kenya: a cultural psychological perspective
This paper presents an analysis of different positions on female genital cutting, either legitimising the practice or challenging it. The framework it offers has been developed from cultural psychological theory and qualitative data collected in Maasai communities around Loitokitok and Magadi, Kajiado County, and Samburu communities around Wamba, Samburu County, in Kenya. Over the course of one month, 94 respondents were interviewed using maximum variation sampling. Triangulation took place by means of participant observation of significant events, such as alternative
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Stroke distribution patterns and characteristics in Kenya’s leading public health tertiary institutions: Kenyatta National hospital and Moi teaching and referral hospital
Cardiovascular diseases are the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Kenya. However, there is limited clinic-epidemiological data on stroke to inform decision making. This study sought to establish stroke distribution patterns and characteristics in patients seeking care at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), with the ultimate aim of establishing the first national stroke registry in Kenya.
Kaduka, L., A. Korir, C. O. Oduor, J. Kwasa, J. Mbui, S. Wabwire, R. G
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The effect of combining business training, microfinance, and support group participation on economic status and intimate partner violence in an unplanned settlement of Nairobi, Kenya
Intimate partner violence (IPV) has myriad negative health and economic consequences for women and families. We hypothesized that empowering women through a combination of formal business training, microfinance, and IPV support groups would decrease IPV and improve women’s economic status. The study included adult female survivors of severe IPV. Women living in Korogocho received the intervention and women in Dandora served as a standard of care (SOC) group, but received the intervention at the end of the follow-up period. Women in the intervention groups (n
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Computer-Automated Malaria Diagnosis and Quantitation Using Convolutional Neural Networks
The optical microscope remains a widely-used tool for diagnosis and quantitation of malaria. An automated system that can match the performance of well-trained technicians is motivated by a shortage of trained microscopists. We have developed a computer vision system that leverages deep learning to identify malaria parasites in micrographs of standard, field-prepared thick blood films. The prototype application diagnoses P. falciparum with sufficient accuracy to achieve competency level 1 in the World Health Organization external competency assessment, and quantitates
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High prevalence of onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy in villages in Maridi County, Republic of South Sudan: A community-based survey
To determine the prevalence and incidence of epilepsy in an onchocerciasis endemic region of South Sudan.
Colebunders R, Carter JY, Olore PC, Puok Kai, Bhattacharyya S, Menon S, Abd-Elfarag G, Ojok M, Ensoy-Musorog C, Lako R, Logora MY. High prevalence of onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy in villages in Maridi County, Republic of South Sudan: A community-based survey. 2018. Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy 63; 93–101. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1059131118306575
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Clinical characteristics of onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy in villages in Maridi County, Republic of South Sudan
To describe the clinical manifestations of persons with epilepsy (PWE) in onchocerciasis endemic villages in South Sudan.
Colebunders R, Abd-Elfarag G, Carter JY, Olore PC, Puok Kai, Menon S, Siewe JNF, Bhattacharyya S, Ojok M, Lako R, Logora MY. Clinical characteristics of onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy in villages in Maridi County, Republic of South Sudan. 2018. Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy 62; 108–115. Read More
