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    PREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS OF UTERINE FIBROIDS AMONG REPRODUCTIVE AGE WOMEN ATTENDING GYNECOLOGY UNIT IN GURAGE ZONE HOSPITALS, CENTRAL ETHIOPIA, 2024.
    (WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2024-04) MUNTAHA KEDIR
    Introduction: Uterine fibroid is one of the most common benign smooth muscle tumors of the uterus that affect women of reproductive age. The prevalence of fibroids is significant with esti mates that 20-25% of women and about 235 million of women who represent 6.6% of global women population estimated to be affecting worldwide. In our country the prevalence and asso ciated factors of uterine fibroids among reproductive age women is still unclear, thus, this study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated factors of uterine fibroids among women attending gynecological unit in Gurage Zone Hospitals, 2024. Methods: An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted in 2024, involving 342 study participants who were selected consecutively during the study period. The data were collected by using pre-tested structured questioners and data were entered into epi-data manager Version 4.2 and subsequently exported to SPSS version 20 for analysis. Bivariable and Multivariable Lo gistic regressions analysis were performed to identify associated factors for uterine fibroids con sidering of 95% CI and P-value of < 0.05. Results: The prevalence of uterine fibroids among reproductive age women was 22.1%. The mean age of respondents was 33.4 and SD ± 6.8 years. Factors such as, age between 36-45 years (AOR = 8.635, 95% CI (1.179 - 63.223); participants educational status of secondary level (AOR = .040, 95% CI (.003-.485); experiencing infertility (AOR = 18.626, 95% Cl (4.336 - 80.011); obstetrics and gynecology related surgeries (AOR = 15.520, 95% Cl (5.755 - 41.854); ever used of contraceptives (AOR = .267, 95% Cl (.094 - .759); late age of menarche (AOR = .031,95% Cl (.001- .646); and family history of uterine fibroids (AOR = 6.705, 95% Cl (2.464 18.248); were significantly associated with uterine fibroids. Conclusion In this study, the prevalence of uterine fibroids found to be relatively high. Major predictors such as age of women, participant educational status, infertility, obstetrics and gynecology related op eration, contraceptives, family history, and late menarche age was found to be predictors of uter ine fibroids. Therefore, encourage of the women early childbirth, promotion of contraceptives pills through long times should be promoted by health information and health education pro gram.
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    MAGNITUDE OF FUNCTIONAL DYSPEPSIA AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG ADULTS VISITING OUT PATENT DEPARTMENT AT WOLKITE UNIVERSITY SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL, WOLKITE ETHIOPIA
    (WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2023-08) DADITU TAYE; MOHAMED ABDO; ELIAS LEGASU; Mr. HAIMANOT.A
    Background: Functional dyspepsia is a prevalent condition with symptoms that originate in the upper abdomen area, both in the general population and in clinical settings. The magnitude of functional dyspepsia and its contributing variables vary from nation to nation. It is most common gastrointestinal disease in developing countries. However, had not been widely used in routine medical practice because the concept of functional dyspepsia is relatively new and not widely recognized, usually missed in the diagnosis. The magnitude of functional dyspepsia in Ethiopia is not well known and limited researches has been conducted about it in Ethiopia.Objective: To assess the magnitude of functional dyspepsia and its associated factors among adults visiting outpatient department at Wolkite University Specialized teaching hospital: 2023 G.C. Method: Institution based cross-sectional study design was utilized and the 254 participants were interviewed using both self-administered and interviewer administered structured questionnaires and they were selected using consecutive sampling technique. The data was collected, sorted by group members then entered into EPI data version 3.4 software, and exported to statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 27 software packages for further analysis. The association between each independent variable and the dependent was determined using binary logistic regression. In a multivariable analysis, variables wereconsidered statistically significant if they had a P-value of less than 0.05 at 95% confidence interval.RESULT: A total of 254 patients participated in this study with 100% response rate. Functional dyspepsia was diagnosis in76(29.9%), by using R3DQ. In multivariate regressionanalysis, occupation (AOR:0.281,95%CI (0.11-0.721)), drugs (A0R:3.624,95%CI (1.915-6.856)), smoking (AOR:3.181,95%CI (1.498,6.758) and drinking alcohol (AOR: 0.36(0.14-0.97), were significantly associated with functional dyspepsia at p-value (≤0.05).Conclusions and Recommendations: The result of this study show that functionaldyspepsia was associated with a variety of factors. Functional dyspepsia could be prevented by working on lifestyle habits modification and giving more attention towards drug user.