Correlates of Health Choices in View of Emerging Lifestyle Diseases Among Seventh-day Adventist Church Members in Eldoret West, Kenya (Presentation)

The study determined the relationship between SDA church members’ health choices and their demographics, attitudes towards the Adventist health message, cultural beliefs on health, and knowledge of lifestyle diseases. Attitudes towards the Adventist health message, educational level, and monthly income emerged to have a significant relationship with health choices.https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/hrsa/1224/thumbnail.jp

Association of Mothers’ Pediatric Tuberculosis Knowledge and Attitudes with Health Seeking Practices in Kapsabet Referral Hospital, Nandi County, Kenya

Tuberculosis (TB) is in the top rank of causes of pediatric morbidity and mortality. In 2017, approximately 1 million children were infected with the disease and 230,000 died. In Kenya, tuberculosis is number 4 on the causes of death with 6.3% of total deaths. Nandi County is one of the counties affected with Kapsabet Referral Hospital having a substantial number of cases for ages 0-14 years. The objective of the study was to assess the association of mothers’ pediatric tuberculosis knowledge and attitudes with health seeking practices in Kapsabet Referral Hospital, Nandi County, Kenya. A cross-sectional research design was used to do the study and data collected using Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) questionnaires based on World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. Mothers attending Maternal Child Health (MCH) clinic having children aged 0-14 years were the target population. Purposive and systematic random sampling were employed and sample calculated using Rao soft online calculator. SPSS version 25.0 was used for analysis that is, descriptive statistics (frequency distribution tables, Pearson chi-square test, odds ratio) and multinomial logistic regression. Results were reported as statistically significant if p-values< 0.05. Results showed that mothers with children more than 2 (adj OR, 1.18; 95% CI, 0.69 to 2.05) and those with regular income (adj OR, 1.08; 95% CI, 0.67 to 1.72) were more likely to have good knowledge. Those with higher levels of education (adj OR, 1.19; 95% CI, 0.75 to 1.88), Christians (adj OR, 3.16; 95% CI, 0.84 to 11.88), and those with regular income (adj OR, 1.08; 95% CI, 0.67 to 1.72) were more likely to have positive attitudes. Most respondents 343 (97.2%) would seek health care in a health facility. Employment (adj OR, 0.55, 95% CI: 0.32-0.93, P value < 0.05) was statistically significant to overall mothers’ knowledge on pediatric TB. Age of mothers (adj OR: 0.70, 95% CI: 0.43-1.12, P value < 0.05) and number of children (adj OR, 0.57, 95% CI: 0.32-0.99, P value < 0.05) were statistically significant to overall pediatric TB attitudes of respondents. While Education (P value < 0.05) was statistically significant to overall health seeking practices. Those with good knowledge (OR: 1.83, 95% CI: 0.16-20.48) and positive attitudes (OR: 1.22, 95% CI: 0.11-13.65) were more likely to seek health care in a health facility as compared to visiting a pharmacy or a traditional healer. Generally, respondents had inadequate knowledge, positive attitudes and good health seeking practices towards pediatric TB. There was an association of knowledge and attitudes with health seeking practices. Therefore, regular pediatric TB education is recommended at MCH, Kapsabet Referral Hospital, Nandi County, Kenya. Keywords: Pediatric tuberculosis, Knowledge, Attitudes, Health seeking practice, Kenya, Nandi County, Kapsabet Referral Hospital DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/77-08 Publication date:July 31st 202

Correlates of health choices in view of emerging lifestyle diseases among SDA church members in Eldoret West, Kenya.

The study determined the relationship between SDA church members’ health choices and their demographics, attitudes towards the Adventist health message, cultural beliefs on health, and knowledge of lifestyle diseases. Attitudes towards the Adventist health message, educational level, and monthly income emerged to have a significant relationship with health choices

Natural product based anti-adhesion therapy : innovative prevention against bacterial infections

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Antimicrobial activity of Finnish organic honeys against human pathogenic bacteria

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Antimicrobial Activity of Croton macrostachyus Stem Bark Extracts against Several Human Pathogenic Bacteria

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Antimicrobial activity of commercial organic honeys against clinical isolates of human pathogenic bacteria

Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).Extracts of five organic and one conventional honey sources, available in Finnish markets, were tested for antimicrobial activity and inhibitory concentrations against Escherichia coli, Salmonella Typhi, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Bacillus cereus, and Staphylococcus epidermidis, obtained from human specimens. Five (honeys A, B, D, E, F) of the six studied honeys were organic. All the studied honeys had inhibitory activity (zone of inhibition (ZI) > 9.4 ± 0.5 mm) compared to control artificial honey (ZI 13.3 mm against all the studied bacteria with minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of 12.5–50%. Against E. coli, the organic honeys E and F had activity index (AI) of 0.64 and 0.73, respectively, compared to the antibiotic AI of 1.0. Against S. Typhi, the organic honeys D and F had AI of 0.59 and 0.64, respectively. Against P. aeruginosa, the organic honeys D, E, and F had the highest AI of 0.71–0.80, and against S. epidermidis the honeys B, D, E, and F possessed relatively high AI of 0.60, 0.67, 0.73, and 0.78, respectively. Against K. pneumoniae and B. cereus, the detected AI of the organic honeys B, D, E, and F varied between AI of 0.48 and 0.58. The organic honey A and conventionally produced honey C possessed only minor activity with MIC values of 80%. Here, we show that commercially available culinary organic honeys possess remarkable antimicrobial activity against several important human bacterial pathogens.Peer reviewe

Antimalarial Activity of Croton macrostachyus Stem Bark Extracts against Plasmodium berghei In Vivo

There is an increasing need for innovative drug and prophylaxis discovery against malaria. The aim of the present study was to test in vivo antiplasmodial activity of Croton macrostachyus H. (Euphorbiaceae) stem bark extracts from Kenyan folkloric medicine. Inbred Balb/c mice were inoculated with erythrocytes parasitized with Plasmodium berghei (ANKA). Different doses (500, 250, and 100mg/kg) of C. macrostachyus ethyl acetate, methanol, aqueous, and isobutanol extracts were administrated either after inoculation (Peters' 4-day suppressive test) or before inoculation (chemoprotective test) of the parasitized erythrocytes. All the extracts showed significant suppression of parasitemia compared to control (PPeer reviewe

Correlates of Health Choices in View of Emerging Lifestyle Diseases Among Seventh-day Adventist Church Members in Eldoret West, Kenya

The study determined the relationship between SDA church members’ health choices and their demographics, attitudes towards the Adventist health message, cultural beliefs on health, and knowledge of lifestyle diseases. Attitudes towards the Adventist health message, educational level, and monthly income emerged to have a significant relationship with health choices.https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/hrsa/1223/thumbnail.jp