Browsing by Author "Haile, Berhanu"

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    Assessment of fasting blood glucose, serum electrolyte, albumin, creatinine, urea, and lipid profile among hypertensive patients and nonhypertensive participants at wolaita sodo university teaching and referral hospital, SNNPR, Ethiopia
    (Addis Abeba University, 2020-06) Haile, Berhanu; Wolde, Mistire(MSc, Ph.D.); Gebregziabiher, Tatek (MSc, Ph.D. fellow)
    Background: Hypertension is a silent killer that requires long term management to avoid complications. It is one of major public health problem in developing counties like Ethiopia. Hypertension increases the risk of morbidity and mortality and has negative consequences on the cognitive and physical fitness of productivity in adults. Objective: To assess fasting blood glucose, serum electrolyte, albumin, creatinine, urea, and lipid profile among hypertensive patients and non-hypertensive participants at wolaita sodo teaching and referral hospital. Methods: A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2019 to February 2020. On the study a total of 156 study participants (78 cases and 78 controls) were involved. Each study participant, after signing informed consent, interviewed about the socio-demographic and anthropometric characterstic features. Then 5ml of the blood sample was collected from each 78 patients with hypertension and each 78 samples from apparently healthy subjects from WSUTRH during the period. Fasting blood glucose, serum electrolyte, albumin, creatinine, urea, and lipid profile level were measured in each group. The Data were analyzed by using Epi data version 3.1 and SPSS version 25 software (IBM Corporation, USA) and results were summarized using means and percentages and presented by using figures and tables. P-value < 0.05 was considered to be significant at 95% confidence level. Any abnormal laboratory results of study subjects dispatched and communicated with physicians for better management. Results: The mean age of hypertensives and control study groups were 50 ± 10.0 and 51 ±11.3 years respectively. The body mass index of hypertensives and control study groups were 53.4% and 34.2% overweighed respectively. The mean ± SD of fasting blood glucose, total cholesterol, LDL-C, TG, RFT were significantly increases while serum sodium, calcium, albumin, and HDL- Cholesterol significantly decreased in hypertensives when compared with non-hypertensives and serum potassium was no statistical significance among case and control groups. Conclusion: In present study, we observed that the hypertensive group was at risk for developing biochemical alteration in creatinine, urea, fasting blood glucose, lipid profile, electrolytes, and albumin test parameters with an increased period of time. Recommendation: Regular measurements of biochemical parameters strongly needed for hypertensive patients.
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    An Evaluation of the Implementation of the Current Elt Syllabus for Grade 9 In Terms of The Communicative Language Teaching Methodology
    (Addis Ababa University, 1999-06) Haile, Berhanu; Leta, Degenie (phD)
    This study was carried out to investigate the appropriateness of the methodology which the English language teachers of grade 9 use in implementing the current ELT syllabus which was designed with the purpose of developing the communicative abilities of the learners. To this end, the criteria related to the communicative language teaching approach were set. These include cognitive vs mechanical activities, use vs usage performances, analytic vs synthetic, and inductive vs deductive approaches plus the strategies related to reading comprehension. Besides, the application of pair and small group modes of instruction was also used as a supplementary yardstick. For the study, five secondary schools of Addis Ababa were chosen. Then, 16 grade 9 English classes were observed for forty minutes (a period) each. The forty minute period was divided into eight 5-minute sessions and the dominantly occurring activity or procedure was coded in five minutes against the criteria stated above. Moreover, responses given by 48 teachers of the said grade to the questiOlmaire were considered for the study. The result of the study, then, revealed that 74.94% of the mean time was spent on mechanical activities. This means only 25 .06% was used for cognitive ones. Even the cognitive element of this percentage was not the result of fluency activities, but it was the result of time spent on explicit teaching of linguistic rules. Similarly, the mean percentage of time spent on usage was 80.21 %. It was only 19.79% that was devoted to use. In the case of language presentation, the result of the study also showed that the mean percentage of time spent on synthetic approach was 77.18%. It was only the rest, that is, 22.82%, that accounted for the analytic one. At the same time, whereas deductive approach took 75.9% of the mean time, the inductive one consumed 24.1 %. As for as the reading strategies are concerned, the findings of the study also indicated that the l