Browsing by Author "Berhe Semarya( Prof)"

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    Knowledge and Attitude towards Human Papillomavirus Vaccine and Associated Factors Among Mothers Who have Eligible Daughters in Debre Markos Town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-06) Tesfaye Melkam; Berhe Semarya( Prof); Genzeb Siraye(MSc)
    Background: Human papillomaviruses are a big group of highly ubiquitous, small viruses. It is a sexually transmitted disease. Both women and men are rapidly exposed to it after the onset of sexual intercourse. Even though, parents have an important role in the decision-making process regarding the HPV vaccination for their child. Less emphasis is given to their knowledge and attitude towards HPV vaccine; mainly to mothers. Objective: To assess the level of knowledge and attitude towards human papillomavirus vaccine and associated factors among mothers who have eligible daughters in Debre Markos town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021 Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 601 mothers who have eligible daughters and selected by consecutive sampling technique from February 16/2021 to March 16/2021. The data was collected by using face-to-face interview administration and entered into EPI data version 3.1 then, exported to SPSS version 25 for analysis. Variables with a p-value of < 0.25 in bivariate were a candidate for multivariate and those variables with a p-value of <0.05 in multivariate logistic regression were considered as a statistically significant factor for knowledge and attitude of HPV vaccine. Result: A total of 601 study participants with a response rate of 100% were included in the study. Among participants in this study, 47.6% have good knowledge and 77.4% have positive attitude towards HPV vaccine. Knowledge of mothers about HPV vaccine was affected by having degree or higher (AOR=7.687; 95 % CI=1.837-32.168; p=0.005), not hearing about HPV vaccine (AOR=0.172; 95%CI=0.098-0.302; P=0.000), and positive attitude towards HPV vaccine (AOR=2.959; 95%CI=1.580-5.539; P=0.001). Attitude of mothers towards HPV vaccine was affected by not hearing about HPV vaccine (AOR=0.285; 95%CI=0.163-0.499; P=000), and good knowledge about HPV vaccine (AOR=2.705; 95 % CI=1.454-5.035; 0.002). Conclusion: knowledge about HPV vaccine was low. Maternal educational level, hearing about HPV vaccine and attitude towards HPV vaccine were factors associated with knowledge towards HPV vaccine. However, attitude was high and factors associated with attitudes towards HPV vaccine were knowledge about HPV vaccine and hearing about HPV vaccine.
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    Prevalence of Fatigue and Associated Factors Among Adult Cancer Patients Attending Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2019-06) G/her Teka; Berhe Semarya( Prof); Tesfaye Jembere(MSc)
    Background: Fatigue is a common distressing problem in most cancer patients. It may be caused by the disease, the complications of the disease and its treatments. This study aimed to assess prevalence of fatigue and associated factors among adult cancer patients receiving various treatment. A cross sectional study was conducted on 278 patients from February 2019 to march 2019 in TASH Cancer Center. Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI) scale was used for assessment of fatigue, other questions were concerning the socio-demographic data, medical condition and clinical factor included. Objectives: was to assess the prevalence of fatigue and associated factors among cancer patients February and March 2019, at TASH in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was used among 278 randomly selected cancer patients undergoing cancer treatment at TASH. A standardized data collection tool, Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI) was used to gather information from participants. The data was entered to EPI-data version 3.1 and transferred to SPSS version 24 for analysis. Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression were conducted to summarize the data. Level of confidence was determined at 95% CI and p-value <0.05 was considered significant for associations. Result: The prevalence of fatigue among cancer patients in this study showed (74.8%). Age AOR=3.15[1.352-7.336], stage of cancer, AOR: 0.022, [0.0030-0.172], presence of infection, AOR: 4.153 [1.064-16.069], type of cancer AOR= 5.189 [1.590-16.9], and type of treatment AOR: 0.177 [0.068-0.46] showed significant association with fatigue. Conclusion and Recommendation: The prevalence of fatigue among cancer patients undertaking cancer treatment in this study is high. Patients undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy demonstrated higher fatigue symptoms than the other treatment modalities. Age, stage of cancer, type of cancer, type of treatment and infection were associated with fatigue. Therefore, especially nurses and physician could be work on how to reduce fatigue at all levels of patient care. The total cost of the study was 25000.09 ETH Birr.