MMUST Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Navigating the Transition Tightrope
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2024-05-11)This study examined Kenya's national security threats resulting from the withdrawal of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). This was in light of previous Peace Support Operation ... -
Factors Influencing Patient Waiting Time in Emergency Department of Khunyangu Sub-County Hospital, Busia Kenya
(Bayero Journal of Nursing and Health Care, 2023-10-16)Background: Waiting time remains an important indicator of quality health services. The emergency department is the most critical area of any hospital. For patients who are in urgent need of hospitalization, delayed ... -
Prevalence and socio-demographic distribution of uncorrected refractive errors in school-going adolescents in Kakamega County, Kenya
(Ophthalmology Journal, 2024-03-28)BACKGROUND: Efforts to mitigate vision loss due to uncorrected refractive errors (UREs) in Africa remain unpredictable. This study investigated the prevalence and socio-demographic distribution of UREs in school-going ... -
Health managers’ perspectives of community health committees’ participation in the annual health sector planning and budgeting process in a devolved unit in Kenya: a cross-sectional study
(Pan African Medical Journal, 2024-03-20)Introduction health sector planning and budgeting are concerned with identifying priorities that guide budgetary allocation to improve health outcomes. Engaging the community in this process empowers them to manage their ... -
Effect of food-based nutrition intervention on management of non-communicable diseases among people living with HIV in Busia County Hospital, Kenya
(African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2024-02-29)Good nutrition optimizes benefits of ART (Antiretroviral therapy) and increases treatment adherence, both prolongs lives of PLHIV (NASCOP, 2014), without proper care and management it exposes them to non-communicable ... -
Hematological profiles of newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Western Kenya
(International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health, 2024-04-09)Background: Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) mortality remains high despite current availability of effective anti-TB drugs. This could be due to pathophysiological derangements that are not fully understood and managed during ... -
Assessment of groundwater vulnerability in Webuye Municipality, Kenya
(Journal of Applied Research in Water and Wastewater (JARWW), 2023-09-12)Access to safe water and sanitation is a basic human right and is enshrined in the sustainable development goal 6. Consequently, resources have been channeled towards development and improvement of water sources. Unlike ... -
FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO DISASTER RISKS REDUCTION IN TRANSPORTATION OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS IN KENYA
(MMUST, 2024)Over the past decades, there has been enormous increase in the number of disasters in the global petroleum industry. At a continental level, Africa has experienced many disasters in the downstream sector of the industry. ... -
PREDICTORS OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG PRIMARY CAREGIVERS OF CANCER PATIENTS IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY, KENYA
(2024)Primary Stress from the burden of providing care for a patient with cancer frequently results in reduced Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) for caregivers. The majority of research done in Western populations has ... -
Variation in Total Electron Content Over Ethiopia During the Solar Eclipse Events
(Radio Science, 2024-04-08)his work studies variations of ionospheric total electron content (TEC) during four distinct solar eclipse events over the Ethiopia region. Dual-frequency global positioning system (GPS) data obtained from UNAVCO over Addis ... -
Availability and helpfulness of low vision assistive devices for low vision learners attending inclusive schools in Kakamega County, Kenya
(Ophthalmology Journal, 2024-05-02)BACKGROUND: Low-vision assistive devices play an essential role in improving the reading performance and quality of life of low-vision children. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A school-based observational cross-sectional study ... -
Green Procurement and Service Delivery of County Governments in Western Region, Kenya
(International Journal of Business, Economics, and Social Development, 2024)The framers of the Public Procurement Law envisaged to streamline how public procurement should be conducted in order to realize value for money in public procuring entities. The primary objective of the research thus was ... -
Factors Influencing Nurse Interns’ Competence in Physical Assessment for Adult Patients
(Evidence-Based Nursing Research, 2024-03-31)Context: Physical assessment is essential to the overall health assessment, constituting the nursing process's first phase. The physical assessment competence of nurse interns has been observed as insufficient in evaluating ... -
Institutional Factors Influencing Self-Directed Learning Readiness among Nursing Students in Medical Training Colleges in Siaya County, Kenya
(eepublisher.com, 2024-04-24)Context: Self-directed learning (SDL) is a prominent pedagogical approach in nursing education. The success of self-directed learning hinges upon an individual's readiness, which is influenced by the complexity of factors. ... -
Prevalence of visual impairment and estimation of refractive errors among school children in Kakamega, Kenya
(Int J Ophthalmol, 2024-05-18)AIM To investigate the prevalence of visual impairment (VI) and provide an estimation of uncorrected refractive errors in school-aged children, conducted by optometry students as a community service. METHODS The study ... -
African Union Mission in Somalia Considerations for Transition and Kenya’s National Security
(AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, 2024-05-02)This study assessed the implications of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Kenya's national security within the context of AMISOM's transition to the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS). The ... -
Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection among miners at selected mining sites in Migori County, Kenya
(Journal of Agriculture, Science and Technology, 2023-09-30)Tuberculosis (TB) disease is caused by acid-fast bacilli called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The emergence of drug-resistant TB variants as well as co-infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) have complicated ... -
Consequences of illicit brews on health and family food security in Bungoma county, Kenya’s Bumula and Kanduyi sub-counties.
(African Journal of Social Issues, 2024-03-23)Illicit brew accounts for 60% of alcohol drunk in Kenya, with detrimental effects on health and food security. This study aimed to determine health consequences of illicit local brews on household food security was conducted ... -
Monkeypox: genetic, clinical, molecular, diagnostic, and therapeutic perspectives
(Journal of Rare Diseases, 2024-06-17)Monkeypox is a DNA virus that belongs to the orthopox virus family with two distinct clades known as West African and Congo Basin. This virus was initially discovered in crab-eating Macaques in 1958 and in 1970s it spread ... -
Education for Sustainable Development
(Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 2015-09-17)The unit-based sustainability assessment tool (USAT) was administered at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya, between January and March 2012. The assessment focused on establishing to what ...