Lira University institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Health seeking behaviour of small income market vendors: Diabetes primary care in Gulu Municipality, northern Uganda
(South Sudan Medical Journal, 2020)Introduction: Uganda faces a serious threat of non-communicable diseases including type 2 diabetes; sedentary lifestyles predispose people to these diseases. Objective: To understand the diabetes health seeking behaviour ... -
Antibiograms from community-acquired uropathogens in Gulu, northern Uganda - a cross-sectional study
(BMC infectious diseases, 2013)Background: Urinary tract infections (UTI) are common in clinical practice and empirical treatment is largely employed due to predictability of pathogens. However, variations in antibiotic sensitivity patterns do occur, ... -
Prevalence of anaemia and associated risk factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care in Gulu and Hoima Regional Hospitals in Uganda: A cross sectional study
(BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2016)Background: Anaemia is a public health problem affecting over 1.62 billion people globally. It affects all age groups of people and is particularly more prevalent in pregnant women. Africa carries a high burden of ... -
WHO guidelines on fluid resuscitation in children: missing the FEAST data
(Bmj, 2014)The World Health Organization recommendations on management of common childhood illnesses affect the lives of millions of children admitted to hospital worldwide. Its latest guidelines,1 released in May 2013, continue ... -
Treatment outcome among children underfive years hospitalized with severe acute malnutrition in St. Mary’s hospital Lacor, Northern Uganda
(BMC Nutrition, 2016)Background: Severe malnutrition contributes to more than 60 % of deaths in children in developing countries. The minimum international standard set for management of severe acute malnutrition is a cure rate of at least ... -
Predicting mortality in sick African children: the FEAST Paediatric Emergency Triage (PET) Score
(BMC Medicine, 2015)Background: Mortality in paediatric emergency care units in Africa often occurs within the first 24 h of admission and remains high. Alongside effective triage systems, a practical clinical bedside risk score to identify ... -
Mortality risk over time after early fluid resuscitation in African children
(Clinical care, 2019)Background: African children hospitalised with severe febrile illness have a high risk of mortality. The Fluid Expansion As Supportive Therapy (FEAST) trial (ISCRTN 69856593) demonstrated increased mortality risk ... -
Mortality after Fluid Bolus in African Children with Severe Infection
(New England Journal of Medicine, 2011)Background The role of fluid resuscitation in the treatment of children with shock and lifethreatening infections who live in resource-limited settings is not established. Methods We randomly assigned children with ... -
Lactose intolerance among severely malnourished children with diarrhoea admitted to the nutrition unit, Mulago hospital, Uganda
(BMC Pediatrics, 2010)Background: Lactose intolerance is a common complication of diarrhoea in infants with malnutrition and a cause of treatment failure. A combination of nutritional injury and infectious insults in severe protein energy ... -
The Potential of Citizen- Driven Monitoring of Freshwater Snails in Schistosomiasis Research
(Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2021)Schistosomiasis is a tropical parasitic disease affecting more than 200 million people worldwide, predominantly in Africa. The World Health Organization recently highlighted the importance of targeted control of the ... -
Traditional Medicinal Vegetables in Northern Uganda: An Ethnobotanical Survey
(International Journal of Food Science, 2021)Background. A wide range of indigenous vegetables grow in Uganda especially during rainy seasons but scarcely during droughts, except those that are commercially grown. Although a number of these vegetables have medicinal ... -
The Effects of Domestic Violence on the Academic Performance of Pupils: A Case Study of Primary Schools in Laroo Division, Gulu Municipality
(Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2021)Study findings on the effects of domestic violence on academic performance have shown that individual academic performance levels are affected by a host of factors outside of the classroom including home environments. A ... -
Drip irrigation as a smart farming technology: a microstudy of a solar-powered water pump in Lira city, mid-north Uganda
(International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations, 2021)This microstudy aimed to investigate the adoption of drip irrigation to enhance smart farming technology in Lira city. A descriptive design was employed targeting one farm and data was collected using a transect walk within ... -
Incidental cholecystocolonic fistula in obstructive jaundice
(Wiley, 2021)Cholecystocolonic fistula is a rare condition often diagnosed intraoperatively, requiring an adequate set of knowledge and skills to allow safe intraoperative change of prior planned surgery and alleviate significant morbidity. -
Deconstructing smart farming from the perspective of beekeeping technologies: voices from Lira city, mid-north Uganda
(International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations, 2021)Smart farming in less-developing nations and or societies has been discouraged with a pretext that it is an impossible venture to undertake yet every community in the world can be empowered to embrace smart farming for ... -
Integrated policy formulation processes in local governments: A case study in mid-western Uganda
(Journal of Governance and Accountability Studies, 2021)Purpose: This study set out to assess the level of policy formulation in Hoima district local government for effective service delivery in Uganda. Research methodology: A quantitative case study design was embraced, aiming ... -
“One-step at a time”: Adopting fish Farming technologies as a smart farming initiative among smallholder farmers in Oyam district, Uganda
(International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations, 2021)Recent trends indicate that the level of environmental degradation and its impact on climate change is almost irrevocable; the global society has decided that issues of climate change become central to every strategy, ... -
Examining the realities of poultry farming technologies as enablers to smart farming in lira city, mid north Uganda
(International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations, 2021)This study aimed to examine the realities of poultry farming technologies as enablers of smart farming in Lira city. A descriptive design was adopted targeting one poultry farm in the city of Lira and data were collected ... -
Embracing drip irrigation technology to stimulate smart farming: a study in Dokolo District, mid-north Uganda
(International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations, 2021)This study was intended to investigate the potential of embracing drip irrigation technology as a strategy to stimulating smart farming in Dokolo district. We adopted a descriptive design on one of the farms that has ... -
Is Gastric Involvement by Strongyloides stercoralis in an Immunocompetent Patient a Common Finding? A Case Report and Review of the Literature
(Acta Parasitologica, 2021)Purpose Gastric infection with Strongyloides stercoralis (SS) usually occurs in immunocompromised patients. The unexpected observation of this parasite in an otherwise healthy young lady who had undergone upper endoscopy ...