Faculty of Medicine: Recent submissions
Now showing items 981-1000 of 1992
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Rewarding Steps in the Development of Multi-Disciplinary Teams and Services for Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Uganda
(Research gate, 2015)About 57% of Ugandans are children. Yet, mental health needs of the child population largely go unmet. Psychiatric problems have severe & often irreversible consequences. They interfere with the ability to participate in ... -
Relationship between depressive symptoms and cumulative 24-hour urinary norepinephrine excretion level among undergraduate medical students in Uganda
(bioRxiv, 2019)Background: Depression is a serious mental health problem in different parts of the world and has been reported to be rising among undergraduate medical students. The incidence of depression has not only been linked to ... -
Psychosocial interventions for reducing depression among the elderly in low and middle income countries: A Systematic Review Protocol
(Research square, 2021)Background: According to the World Health Organization, depression is expected to be the largest contributor to the global disease burden by 2030. Depression is the most frequent cause of emotional distress and reduced ... -
Psychological distress among adults admitted to medical and surgical wards of a Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda
(African Health Sciences, 2013-03)Background: Physical illness is commonly associated with psychological distress that may be a direct effect of the illness or an adjustment in coping with the physical illness or its treatment. Little is known about ... -
Psychiatric disorders among children and adolescents with active epilepsy in southwestern Uganda
(Pan African medical journal, 2020)Introduction: the study aimed to determine the prevalence of emotional, behavioral, developmental and psychosis related disorders among children and adolescents with active epilepsy aged 5 to 18 years in southwestern ... -
Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Negative Outcomes of Anxiety and Depressive Disorders among HIV-Infected Children and Adolescents in Uganda: CHAKA Study 2014-2017
(Psychiatry Journal, 2022-05-05)Background: Children and adolescents infected with HIV/AIDS (CA-HIV) experience a considerable burden of depressive and anxiety disorders that have a tendency to persist into adulthood. The aim of this study was to determine ... -
Prevalence of depressive symptoms and associated factors among adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in South Western Uganda
(AIDS Care, 2019)Adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) are prone to depression, which can have detrimental effects including disease progression, poor treatment adherence and mortality. We aimed to determine the prevalence of depressive ... -
Prevalence and Forms of Sexual Violence Among Women Seeking HIV Services At Selected Health Facilities in Buhweju District, Southwestern Uganda
(Research square, 2021)Background: Sexual violence is a global health concern affecting more than a third of women especially those in low and middle income countries. HIV is one of the consequences of sexual violence but it can also be a risk ... -
Prevalence and factors associated with suicide among medical professionals in low/middle-income countries: a systematic review protocol
(BMJ open, 2019)Introduction: A number of studies in low/middle-income countries (LMICs) have reported varying prevalence of suicide among medical professionals with low rates. This may be because of the methods used in suicide assessment ... -
Perceptions of Undergraduates and Mentors on the Appropriateness, Acceptability, and Feasibility of the HEPI-TUITAH Micro-Research Approach to HIV Training in Uganda
(Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 2022-04-15)Purpose: To evaluate the perceptions of undergraduates and mentors on the appropriateness, acceptability, and feasibility of a mentored seed-grant (micro-research) by Health Professions Education Partnership Initiative - ... -
Perceived stigma and school attendance among children and adolescents with epilepsy in South Western Uganda
(African Health Sciences, 2020)Background: Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that has a high worldwide prevalence with eighty percent of the global burden being in low and middle-income countries. There is a high level of perceived stigma among children ... -
Participation in gardening activity and its association with improved mental health among family caregivers of people with dementia in rural Uganda
(Preventive Medicine Reports, 2021)Evidence from high-income settings suggests that gardening is associated with reductions in depression, anxiety, and stress. The benefits of gardening are less well understood by mental health practitioners and researchers ... -
Parents’ and caretakers’ perceptions and concerns about accessibility of antenatal services by pregnant teenagers in Mbarara Municipality, Uganda
(Midwifery, 2019)Background: Uganda has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Sub-Saharan Africa and the world. About a quarter of teenagers become pregnant annually. This is much higher than the global rate of 11%. When a teenager ... -
Improving collaboration between primary care and mental health services
(The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 2018)In almost any country – whether high, middle or low income - primary care providers play major roles in delivering mental health care. Indeed, the World Health Organization has recognized that in many low and middle-income ... -
Global mental health: The role of collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Global Mental Health, 2021)There is a strong ethical imperative for international collaborations. Historically, global emergencies have frequently resulted in cultural outsiders, including medical and mental health professionals, responding to ... -
Fruit and vegetable intake and mental health among family caregivers of people with dementia in Uganda
(Mental Health & Prevention, 2021)Consumption of fruits and vegetables is correlated with improved mental wellbeing. Although this growing body of research has been recognized by researchers and clinicians in high-income countries, fewer studies examining ... -
Exploration of the understanding and etiology of ADHD in HIV/AIDS as observed by adolescents with HIV/AIDS, caregivers and health workers- using case vignettes
(African Health Sciences, 2018-09)Background: Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent behavioural disorder among children and adolescents with HIV infection (CA-HIV). Objective: To explore the explanations used by ... -
Electroencephalogram utilization and psychiatric comorbidities among children and adolescents with epilepsy in rural Southwestern Uganda
(The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 2022)Objective: This study aimed at describing routine electroencephalogram (EEG) findings among children and adolescents with a clinical diagnosis of epilepsy and determines how interictal EEG abnormalities vary with the ... -
Effect of suicidality on clinical and behavioural outcomes in HIV positive adults in Uganda
(PLoS ONE, 2021-08-20)Introduction: Suicidality is a risk of a person committing suicide often characterized by suicidal ideation, intent or attempts. Despite the high burden of suicidality among individuals living with HIV and HAIDS, there is ... -
Depression and Suicidality: Silent Killers Among Health Workers
(Research gate, 2016-01)Health workers learn how to prevent and treat illnesses including their own. However, mental illness is not easy for the health workers to prevent. Although depressive illness is a treatable illness in many facilities it ...