Prevalence and factors associated with pneumonia among under-fives attending Kiryandongo General Hospital
| dc.contributor.author | Balinga, Sophia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-21T08:37:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-11-21T08:37:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-04 | |
| dc.description | A research report submitted to the Faculty of Clinical Medicine and Dentistry in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery of Kampala International University | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Pneumonia is still a major contributor of morbidity and mortality, especially among the under-fives of sub-Saharan Africa. This, occurring in the backdrop of global reports of prevalence decrease between 2000 and 2015 of more than 22%, is cause for concern. There has to be factors that can be attributed to this non-uniform fall in prevalence especially in Uganda, and Kiryandongo where shockingly, data on the subject matter is minimal, if not totally non-existent. The study set out to assess the prevalence of pneumonia, the various factors associated with this prevalence and the incidence of pneumonia-HIV coinfection among children below the age of five years attending Kiryandongo General Hospital. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted involving 2,530 pediatric admissions over a period of 9 months. A total of 418 (16.72%) pneumonia cases were diagnosed with significant factors being child age, sex, sero-status, nutritional status, immunization and breastfeeding history, low family socio-economic status, rural residence with firewood use, low maternal age and educational status. Incidence of pneumonia-HIV coinfection was 26.79%, a value that would be even higher when the HIV-exposed infants are included in the statistics | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12306/3841 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Kampala International University, School of Health Sciences | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pneumonia among children | en_US |
| dc.subject | Kiryandongo General Hospital | en_US |
| dc.title | Prevalence and factors associated with pneumonia among under-fives attending Kiryandongo General Hospital | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |