http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/13197 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:43:37 GMT 2026-10-13T14:43:37Z http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/17436 Intention to use mobile health and its associated factors among health care providers working at health institution in north Gojjam Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia 2025 Kassie, Derbew ABSTRACTS BACKGROUND- mHealth is the use of mobile phones, personal digital assistant, patient monitoring devices, and other wireless electronic devices for medical and public health purposes. It can address health related issues such as the rising prevalence of infectious or non-infectious diseases and the high cost of care. It is a well-established fact that usage of mHealth technology is possible only if health-care provider has a favorable behavioral intention regarding it. However, the health care providers’ intention to use mhealth were low and its factors were not studied well In Ethiopia. OBJECTIVES- To assess health care provider’s intention and its associated factors toward using mobile health in North-Gojjam zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia 2025 G.C. METHODS- A cross-sectional study conducted from January 1 to February 30, 2025 among 924 health care providers in North Gojjam zone public health facilities. Self- administered structured questionnaire was used to collect data. The collected data were entered into Epi-Data version 4.6 and exported to SPSS version 26 and to AMOS (analysis of moment structure; version 23). Structural equation model (SEM) was used and it analyzed by analysis of moment structure (AMOS) version 23. Simple random sampling technique was used to select study participants. Median was used to measure the cut of point the intention to use mhealth. Standardized β coefficients were used to measure the association of dependent and independent variables, and 95% confidence intervals and P- values were used to evaluate statistical significance. Result: 891(96%) healthcare providers were complete the questionnaire in the study. The proportion of health care providers’ intention to use mhealth was 55.7%.(95 %CI 52.3%- 58.8%) According to the findings, performance expectancy (β = 0.26, 95% CI(0.22-0.3) p-value <0.001), effort expectancy (β = 0.24, 95% CI(0.174-0.31), p-value <0.001), social influence (β = 0.31, 95% CI(0.265-0.355), p-value <0.001), and facilitating condition (β = 0.14, 95% CI: (0.074–0.206), p-value =0.02) had a significant effect on the intention to use mhealth. The effect of social influence on the intention to use a mhealth was moderated by age ( p-value=0.007). However, the moderator gender was not affected the relationship between all constructs and behavioral intention to use mhealth. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology Model had good explanatory power 93.5%(R2=0.935) for health care providers’ behavioral intention to use mobile health services. ix Conclusion and recommendation: Generally, the overall intention of healthcare providers to use mhealth was moderate (55.7%). The effect of social influence on intention to use mhealth were moderated by age. Policymakers and programmers should improve healthcare provider’s capacity by motivating them and raising awareness by acting on factors related to their behavioral intention. Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/17436 2025-06-28T00:00:00Z http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/17084 Diagnostic Accuracy Of Ultrasound In Characterization Of Thyroid Nodule Compared To Fnac Results And Associated Factors In Predicting Malignancy In Patients Visiting Tibebe Ghion Specialized Hospital For Thyroid Nodule Scanning Yenew, Getnet Background: Thyroid nodules are a common problem in clinical practice, caused by congenital anomalies, inflammatory pathologies, and tumors. Thyroid nodules are a common endocrine problem, and while most are benign, differentiating between benign and malignant nodules is crucial for appropriate patient management. Ultrasonography (US) is the primary imaging modality for evaluating thyroid nodules and has high sensitivity of detecting benign nodules but its accuracy in definitively diagnosing malignancy can vary. Even though Final diagnosis relies on FNAC and histopathology of surgical specimens, every patient with thyroid nodules are not candidate for FNAC and histopathology diagnosis. This study aims to assess the accuracy of ultrasound characterisation of thyroid nodules compared with FNAC to reduce non-eligible patients from the invasive FNAC and histopathology procedure and avoid unnecessary surgery. Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound in the characterisation of thyroid nodules compared to the fine needle aspiration results in patients visiting Tibebe Ghion hospital for thyroid scanning from December to January 2026 . Methods: This study was conducted at Tibebe Ghion specialised hospital in an institution-based cross-sectional study in patients visiting Tibebe Ghion specialized hospital scanned for thyroid disease and nodules detected with ultrasound and FNAC results. From December,1 to January 30,2026. The data was collected by trained radiology residents from December 1 to January 30, 2025. In this study, all patients who full fill the inclusion criteria in the study period were included .The questioners included questions on patient demography, duration of the symptoms, ultrasound and FNAC findings. Data were che cked for completeness and consistency and the data was collected by kobo software and then analyzed by SPSS compute software based on specific and general objectives. The two by two tables used to calculate the dependent variables. The sensitivity, specificity, diagnostic accuracy, positive predictive value and negative predictive value was calculated from the two by two table. Binary regression using bivariate and multivariate factors used to show the association of each independent variable with the dependent variable. The total cost of this study estimated was 30,000 ETB. RESULT. Among 131 nodules 26(19.8%) were malignant and 105 (80.2%) were benign by FNAC. ultrasound demonstrated a sensitivity of 80.8 % and specificity of 81%.the overall diagnostic accuracy was 80.9%.the positive predictive value was 51.2% while the negative predictive value was 94.4%.the positive likelihood ratio was 4.25 and the negative likely hood ratio is 0.24.a statistically significant association was observed between ultrasound diagnosis and FNAC results (x2=36.92,p=0.001) Conclusion, This study show ultrasound has high accuracy to detect and characterize benign thyroid nodules and can be used as a sensitive screening tool and avoid unnecessary surgical interventions but ultrasound has limitation to diagnosis malignant nodules accurately so that FNAC and histopathogic examination is mandatory to confirm ultrasound malignant looking lesions. Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/17084 2026-01-18T00:00:00Z http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/15249 Survival Status And Predictors of Mortality Among Stroke Patients at Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Bahir Dar, North West Ethiopia, 2020 Nigusie, Walelgn Introduction: Stroke is one of the commonest non communicable disease types that have a great public health impact both in developed and developing countries. However, in Ethiopia, the long term survival status of stroke patients was not well understood. Objective: This study was aimed to assess survival status and predictors of mortality among stroke patient at Felege hiwot comprehensive specialized hospital (FHCSH) from September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2019 Bahirdar, North West Ethiopia. Methods and materials: an institutional based retrospective cohort study was conducted among 368 registered stroke patients between September1, 2014 and August 31, 2019,and simple random sampling technique were used. Kaplan–Meier used to estimate survival rate with log rank test, to compare hazard of death covariate and both bi-variable and multivariable Cox regression analysis was conducted to identify predictors of mortality. Association was summarized using adjusted hazard ratio (AHR), and statistical significances were declared at 95% confidence interval (CI) and P-value < 0.05. Result: Of the368 stroke patients who were included in the analysis, 56 (15.2%) were died, and 312 (84.8%) were right censored. The overall survival rate was 72.2% at 51 months follow-up with median survival time of 0.26 months. Age greater than 65 (AHR= 6.31, 95% CI 1.75- 22.74), patients body temperature >37.1 degree centigrade (AHR = 7.14, 95% CI: 2.76-18.5), potassium level below <3.5 mmol/l (AHR =6.82, 95% CI: 1.9-23.53) and creatinine level >1.2 mg/dl (AHR = 7.85, 95% CI: 2.7-22.6), were the predictors of mortality. Conclusion and Recommendation age greater than 65 years, body temperature above 37.1degree centigrade, potassium level less than3.5 mmol/l, and Creatinine greater than1.2 mg/dl after admission. Therefore, interventions to reduce further mortality should focus in stroke patient. Key words: stroke, survival status, predictors, mortality, Ethiopia Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/15249 2020-07-09T00:00:00Z http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/14585 Treatment Outcome and Associated Factors of Patients Underwent Gastrointestinal Surgery at Tibebe-Ghion Specialized Hospital: A Restrospective Cross-Sectional Study Worknesh, Baye Background: Surgery is an important public health intervention and occurs at a tremendous volume worldwide from the most resource rich to the most resource limited settings. This volume of surgery needs a great effort to improve the safety and availability of surgical services that will be sumed-up with good patient outcome. Even though adverse patient outcomes following gastrointestinal surgery is among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, in Ethiopia limited studies have been conducted so far on the outcome of gastrointestinal surgery. Objective: To assess the outcome and associated factors of patients underwent gastro-intestinal surgery at Tibebe Ghion specialized Hospital, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 2022. Methods: Institution-based retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted on records of patients treated at Tibebe Ghion specialized Hospital from January 8, 2020 to January 7, 2022. Secondary data were collected by using Pre-tested checklist from the patient charts. Data were entered into the Epi data version 4.6 and exported to SPSS version 25 for further analyses. A binary logistic regression model was used to identify the associated factors. Variables with P- value < 0.25 in the bivariable analysis was a candidate for multivariable analysis and P-value <0.05 in the multivariable analysis was used to declared as statistically significant. Results: From a total of 403 patients, 87 (21.6%) developed poor outcome of gastrointestinal surgery. Rural residency (AOR=3.21), morbidity status greater than or equal to ASAII (AOR=0.32), comorbid illness (AOR=3.67), post-operative length hospital of stay greater than or equal seven days (AOR=4.27), WHO surgical safety checklist utilization (AOR=3.14) and length of operating time (AOR=3.31) were significantly associated with poor outcome of GI surgery. Conclusion and recommendations: More than one-fifth of patients treated at Tibebe Ghion Specialized Hospital, experienced poor surgical outcome. Shortening hospital stays, effectively managing patients with comorbidities, and increasing awareness for rural populations can reduce the problem. Key words: Surgical outcome, gastrointestinal surgery, Tibebe Ghion Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/14585 2022-10-29T00:00:00Z