• SCHIZOPHRENIA IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA: TREND, DETERMINANTS, MEDICATION ADHERENCE AND QUALITY OF LIFE 

  Fethia Mohammed; Dr. Yadeta Dessie (PHD, Associate Professor); Biftu Geda (PhD, Associate Professor); Tesfaye Assebe (PhD, Associate Professor) (Haramaya University Harar, 2024-05)

  Background: Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder which causes a significant impact on the quality of life of the patients and their families, the social environment, and the healthcare system. In ...
• KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, AND PRACTICE TOWARDS HOME-BASED MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION OF UNDER-FIVE DIARRHEAL DISEASE AMONG CAREGIVERS OF CHILDREN AT HIWOT FANA COMPREHENSIVE SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL, HARAR, EASTERN ETHIOPIA 

  Biruk Leulseged (MD); Lidya Legesse (MD, Asst. Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health); Tesfaye Gobena (Ph.D., Associate Professor) (Haramaya University Harar, 2024-01)

  Background: Diarrheal disease is the second-leading cause of under-five mortality globally, particularly in low- and middle-income counties. In Ethiopia, diarrheal diseases are one of the leading causes of under-five ...
• LEVEL OF PARENTAL SATISFACTION ON PEDIATRICS IN-PATIENT SERVICE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AT HIWOT FANA COMPREHENSIVE SPECIALIZED UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, HARAR, EASTERN ETHIOPIA 

  Alemnesh Bekele (BSc); Dr Maleda Tefera; Dr Shiferaw Letta (Haramaya University, 2024-07)

  Background: Parental satisfaction in pediatric inpatient care is crucial for assessing the quality of healthcare services provided to hospitalized children. Understanding and addressing parent satisfaction levels can ...
• NURSE EDUCATORS’ CLINICAL SKILL COMPETENCIES AND TEACHING SKILLS IN ETHIOPIA’S HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: A MIXED METHOD STUDY 

  Agezegn Asegid; Tesfaye Assebe (Ph.D.); Biftu Geda (Ph.D.) (Haramaya University, 2024-07)

  Background: Competent and well-trained faculties are necessary for quality education. The presence of with inadequate skill and knowledge is an indicator for the presence of gaps in education. However, the clinical ...
• TREATMENT OUTCOME AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS OF PERINATAL ASPHYXIA AMONG NEONATES HOSPITALIZED IN THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT OF HIWOT FANA COMPREHENSIVE SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL, HARAR, ETHIOPIA 

  Meron Kebede; Yunus Edris ( Assis profe); Genanew Atnafe (Assis profe) (Haramaya University, 2024-02)

  Introduction: Birth asphyxia is defined as neonate’s failure to initiate and sustain breathing at birth. It can be caused by events in the antepartum or intraparum period. Globally 20-30% of neonates with hypoxic ischemic ...
• ASSESSMENT OF ADMISSION PATTERN, TREATMENT OUTCOME AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS OF CHILDREN ADMITTED TO PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT OF HIWOT FANNA COMPRHENSIVE SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL, HARAR, ETHIOPIA FROM 2021-2023 

  Hikmet Abdurehim; Dr. Betre Shimeles; (Assis prof) Yohannes Baye (Haramaya University, 2024-02)

  A paediatric intensive care unit is a specialized unit that provides medical care to critically ill children. Awareness of the admission pattern and outcomes of critically ill children admitted to Paediatric Intensive ...
• MAGNITUDE OF POOR NURSES-TO-PATIENTS’ COMMUNICATION AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG NURSES WORKING IN PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN HARARI REGION AND DIRE DAWA ADMINISTRATION, EASTERN ETHIOPIA, 2023 

  Murad Umerdin; Simon Birhanu (MPH; Shiferaw Letta (Ph.D. (Haramaya University, 2023-10)

  Background: Communication is the sharing of information between people by sending and receiving it through speaking, writing, or any other means. Poor communication between nurses and patients adversly affects healthcare ...
• MAGNITUDE OF WORK-RELATED MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG HEALTH-CARE PROVIDERS AT SELECTED PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN ARSI ZONE, SOUTH EAST, ETHIOPIA 

  Gemeda Ahmed (BSc); Dr. Aboma Motuma; Mrs. Abiyot Asfaw (Haramaya University, 2023-12)

  Introduction: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders are contributed to absenteeism from workplace and early retirement from profession. Currently work-related musculoskeletal disorder is becoming serious emerging public ...
• MANGNITUDE OF CATARACT AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG ADULTS ATTENDING EYE CLINIC AT HIWOT FANA UNIVERSITY SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL, HARAR, ETHIOPIA 

  Mohammed Johar; Dr Biftu Geda; Mr Teshager Worku (Haramaya University, 2023-03)

  Background: Globally, 65.5 million people are suffered from cataract. It is the most common cause of low vision and the principal cause of blindness in the world .limited information is available on the prevalence cataract ...
• MANGNITUDE OF CATARACT AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG ADULTS ATTENDING EYE CLINIC AT HIWOT FANA UNIVERSITY SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL, HARAR, ETHIOPIA 

  Mohammed Johar; Dr Biftu Geda; Mr Teshager Worku (Haramaya University, 2023-03)

  Background: Globally, 65.5 million people are suffered from cataract. It is the most common cause of low vision and the principal cause of blindness in the world .limited information is available on the prevalence cataract ...
• CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG PATIENTS ATTENDING CHRONIC FOLLOW-UP CLINICS AT EASTERN ETHIOPIA’S PUBLIC HOSPITALS 

  Kadir Abdu; Dr. Biftu Geda; Dr. Maleda Tefera (Haramaya University, 2023-06)

  Background: Chronic liver disease is the long-term degradation of liver processes such as the manufacture of clotting factors and other proteins, the detoxification of toxic metabolic products, and the excretion of ...
• LENGTH OF POST-OPERATIVE HOSPITAL STAYS AMONG ADULT SURGICAL PATIENTS ADMITTED TO ADAMA HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE AND ASELLA REFERRAL TEACHING HOSPITALS OROMIA, ETHIOPIA, 2022. 

  Mohammed Abdela (BSc); Dr. Haymanot M (Ph.D., Assistance Professor); Dr. Biftu G (Ph.D., Associate Professor of Nursing and public health) (Haramaya University, 2022-09)

  Background; Length of hospital stay post-operatively is the duration of stay in the surgical ward after surgery, and it is the most important problem hospitals are facing around the world today, with magnitude rates ...
• BIRTH OUTCOME AFTER INDUCED LABOR AMONG MOTHERS DELIVERED IN NIGIST ELENI MOHAMMED MEMORIAL COMPREHENSIVE SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL, HOSANNA TOWN, HADIYA ZONE, SOUTHERN ETHIOPA. RETROSPECTIVE CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY 

  Dereje Worku Birehanu (BSc); Dr.Tesfaye Assebe (PhD); Dr Tesfaye Gobena (PhD, and associate Professor) (Haramaya University, 2021-09)

  Background. “Induction of labor is not risk free, despite its importance for ending risky pregnancy compare to spontaneous onset of labor it has potential harms and it increases the rate of different maternal and ...
• TREATMENT OUTCOME AND ASSOCIATED FACTOR AMONG NONTRAUMATIC SURGICAL PATIENTS AMONG ADMITTED TO INTENSIVE CARE UNIT, EASTERN ETHIOPIA 

  Dejene Etana Daba; Elias Sertse; Kidest Getachew (Haramaya University, 2022-11)

  Background: Epidemiologic assessment of outcomes of surgical patient‟s admissions into intensive care units provides a framework to evaluate healthcare system efficiency and project future healthcare needs. The mortality ...
• TREATMENT OUTCOME AND ASSOCIATE FACTORS OF INFANTILE HYPERTROPHIC PYLORIC STENOSIS AT HIWOTFANA COMPERHENSIVE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AND JIGJIGA UNIVERSITY SHEIK HASSEN YABAREE REFERRAL HOSPITAL. 

  Badri Omer Hussen; Burka Mohamed; Zenedin Beker (Haramaya University, 2022-11)

  ABSTRACT Background. Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is an anomaly whose etiology is not clear, but It is characterized by progressive hypertrophy of the circular muscles of the pylorus with consequent obstruction ...
• SELF-CARE PRACTICES AMONG PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA: EXTENTS, CORRELATES, AND CONSEQUENCES 

  SHIFERAW LETTA; Yadeta Dessie (Ph.D. Associate Professor); Fekadu Aga (Ph.D. Associate Professor); Tesfaye Assebe (Ph.D. Associate Professor); Biftu Geda (Ph.D. Associate Professor) (2022-11)

  Introduction: Poor self-care practices and poor glycemic control increase the risk of diabetes associated chronic complications. Despite previous studies determining the extent and correlates of self-care practice, they ...
• DETERMINANTS OF THE STROKE AMONG YOUNG ADULT PATIENTS ADMITTED TO HIWOT FANA SPECIALIZED UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, HARAR: A HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY 

  Jemal Mohammed Adame; Dr. Abdulaziz Mohammed (MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine); Dr. Sisay Molla (MD, Neurologist, Assistant Professor of Neurology); Dr. Merga Dheresa (PhD Associated Professor) (Haramaya University, Haramaya, 2023-03)

  Background: Stroke is the second leading cause of death above the age of 60 years, and the fifth leading cause in people aged 15 to 59 years old as reported by the World Health Organization global burden of diseases. ...
• COMPLETION AND PREDICTORS OF MATERNITY CONTINUUM OF CARE AMONG WOMEN IN THE POST-PARTUM PERIOD IN GEDEB DISTRICT, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA. 

  Gemechu Alemayehu; (Asst. Prof) Teshale Mulatu; (Asst. Prof) Simon Birhanu (Haramaya University, 2022-09)

  “Maternity continuum of care” refers to the continuity of care throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and after delivery. Although it is an effective strategy for improving maternal and child health, the coverage of these ...
• KNOWLEDGE OF OBSTETRIC FISTULA AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE IN BANJA DISTRICT, AWI ZONE, NORTHWESTERN ETHIOPIA 

  Meskerem Tsega Dejen; Agumasie Semahegn (PhD); Tesfaye Assebe (PhD) (Haramaya University, 2021-10)

  Background: Obstetric fistula is one of the major maternal health challenges in low and middle-income countries that affected millions of women worldwide. Obstetric fistula is common among teenage mothers that results ...
• HIV POSITIVE STATUS DISCLOSURE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIV AT HAWASSA HEALTH FACILITIES, SIDAMA REGION, ETHIOPIA 

  Kejela Tari; Merga Dheresa(Phd); Desalegn Admassu (Phd) (Haramaya University, 2021-10)

  Background: Many children living with Human Immuno Virus are surviving into adolescence as a result of increased access to antiretroviral therapy. Regardless of the recommendation made by World Health Organization, ...

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