Williamson, Georgia A;
Rodrigo, Shelly;
Guthrie-Dixon, Natalie;
Blackman, Elizabeth;
Beck, J Robert;
Hambleton, Ian;
Bailey, Althea;
Paul, Tomlin;
Ragin, Camille C;
Tulloch-Reid, Marshall K.
ABSTRACT Objective. To describe the needs of academic staff conducting non-communicable disease (NCD) research at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica. Methods. Utilizing a cross-sectional design an online survey was created using the research electronic data capture application (R...
ABSTRACT Objective: To determine the availability of employment and retention for the increased number of medical graduates in Jamaica and The Bahamas. Methods: The availability of internships and junior medical posts for graduates of The University of the West Indies in Jamaica and The Bahamas over th...
ABSTRACT Objective: To report demographic and self-reported clinical characteristics associated with persistent and severe arthralgia 8-12 months post-chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 306 adults who self-reported CHIKV infection was conducted. Subjects were conse...
The Jamaica Moves programme is a comprehensive health promotion campaign that embraces the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and utilizes all its tenets to create a vibrant sustainable
behaviour change model to tackle the risk factors for Non Communicable diseases.
The programme corrals a variety of ac...
ABSTRACT Background: Sepsis causes significant paediatric morbidity and mortality in developing countries. This paper describes the outcome of paediatric sepsis in the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Jamaica, using administrative data from hospital records from 2010 to 2014. Objective: T...
ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate the relationship between intrauterine growth and renal function among Jamaican young adults. Methods: Data from 744 participants from the Jamaica 1986 Birth Cohort Study were analysed. We evaluated the relationship between infant characteristics (birthweight and gesta...
ABSTRACT Objective: The prevalence of sub-dermal contraceptive implant use in Jamaica is low, despite growing international acceptance of long-acting reversible contraception. This study assessed the availability, effectiveness, side-effects and utilization of sub-dermal contraceptive implants and descr...
ABSTRACT The medical records of 983 patients diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were reviewed, 501 of whom were female and 482 were male. The mean age was 42.1 years, the mean number of years since diagnosis of HIV was 7.4, and the average duration of highly active antiretroviral thera...
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify patient-related factors that act as barriers to hypertension control. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 365 patients who were diagnosed with primary hypertension and attended primary healthcare facilities in western Jamaica was carried out. A pretested questionnaire wa...
ABSTRACT Objective: To determine the prevalence of dementia and dementia types in Jamaica. Methods: An embedded case-control design was used to investigate dementia within the ageing population. Cases (Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE] scores of < 20) and controls (MMSE scores of > 20) were ev...
Estudios de Casos y Controles,
Prevalencia,
Demencia/epidemiología,
Demencia/clasificación,
Envejecimiento,
Jamaica/epidemiología,
Manual Diagnóstico y Estadístico de los Trastornos Mentales,
Distribución por Edad y Sexo,
Demencia/diagnóstico por imagen,
Imagen por Resonancia Magnética,
Política de Salud
