Background: Ethiopia is one of the worst countries in the world where trauma especially traffic accident kills a large number of road users every year. In Ethiopia, the magnitude and survival time to recovery of trauma was not well understood. This study intended to examine time to recovery from trauma and predictors among inpatients in Lemlem Karl Hospital, Maichew, Southern Tigray, Ethiopia, 2017. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted by reviewing records of traumatic patients who were admitted to inpatient surgical ward from January 2013 to December 2017 in Lemlem Karl general hospital Maichew town, Tigray, Ethiopia. A total of 327 study participants were selected using simple random sampling. Kaplan-Meier survival plots were used to calculate the crude effect on trauma, survival probabilities and compared using the log-rank test. Cox proportional hazard regression model was used to identify predictors of hospital length of stay. A total of 93.8% of patients were recovered during the follow-up period with a median time of 4 days. Hence, those who had Complications were about 85% times less likely to develop complications than those who had no complications (HR=0.15; CI 0.09-0.24). In addition to those who get treatment before admission to the ward had 3 times more likely to recover than those patients who didn't get treatment before admission (HR=3.29; CI: 1.82-5.95). Therefore, Severity of trauma, number of traumatic organs and treatment given before admission were found significant predictors of time to recovery from trauma. This study provides greater insight of benefits by develop countermeasures that could reduce the number and severity of trauma length of stay.
Background: The novel corona virus is a serious health problem world widely and is spreading in an immune naive population. Deaths are rising sharply, and health systems are under strain. There are confirmed cases of the virus in Ethiopia that found to have the problem. Therefore, the present study intended to assess epidemiology and determinant of knowledge, attitude, and practice of preventing COVID-19 positive patients at Southern Tigray Ethiopia.Methods: A facility based cross-sectional study was conducted from August 6, to October 26, 2020 in selected health care facilities of south Tigray. Multi-stage sampling technique was employed. Descriptive statistics were employed to describe the characteristics of the cross-section and to estimate the prevalence of clients having knowledge, attitude and practice of prevention. Bivariate analysis was performed using binary logistic regression.Results: A total of 170 COVID-19 positive patients were involved and eligible on the survey with the response rate of 98%. Of these participants, 106(62.4%) were male. Over half (51.2%) of the COVID-19 positive patients had good knowledge on transmission of COVID-19; about 64.4% had more accurate knowledge on prevention; ; about 62.9% had more positive attitude on prevention; and about half, 47.1% had poor practices of the precautionary measures against COVID-19. Participants who had more accurate knowledge for preventing COVID-19and more positive attitude of preventing COVID-19were 95%times (AOR=0.05, 95% CI =0.012 – 0.18) and 68% (AOR=0.32, 95% CI = 0.1 - 1.02) less likely, respectively, to implement the precautionary measures of COVID-19.Conclusion: Our findings suggest the need for effective and tailored health education programs aimed at improving COVID-19 knowledge, thereby leading to more favorable attitudes and to implementation and maintenance of safe practices.
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