Publications by authors named "M Justine"
Background: Older adults with Benign Paroxysmal Positioning Vertigo (BPPV) may present with unsteadiness that affects gait patterns.
Objective: This study investigated the spatiotemporal gait parameters and indicators of turning difficulty during the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test in older adults with BPPV.
Methods: This case-controlled study collected data from older adults aged 65 and above with BPPV, young adults with BPPV and older adults without BPPV.
Introduction: Knee osteoarthritis is most common among women with obesity. It may lead to physical inactivity that, in turn, causes fatigue or lack of physical enthusiasm to perform meaningful daily activities. Hence, this study aimed to examine whether pain level, obesity indices and functional performances are associated with fatigue severity in women with knee osteoarthritis (KOA).
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- - At least one-third of tuberculosis (TB) cases go undiagnosed, particularly affecting children and adolescents, which complicates efforts to eliminate the disease globally.
- - A study conducted in rural Tanzania found that children with TB experienced respiratory symptoms for an average of 85 days before receiving treatment, with a significant number coming from households with TB exposure.
- - Interviews with families revealed that 94% of the 16 families reported TB severely impacted their children's education, highlighting the need for better screening to reduce symptom duration and school absenteeism.
Introduction: Patient education is an integral component of diabetes mellitus care. The emergence of different methods and characteristics of patient education has led to varying outcomes of quality of life (QoL). Herein, we systematically searched for published studies reporting patient education and its methods and characteristics for improving the QoL of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Enteropathy is prevalent in tuberculosis-endemic areas, and it has been shown to impair intestinal absorptive function; therefore, enteropathogen burden might negatively affect antimycobacterial pharmacokinetics, particularly among malnourished children. We sought to quantify enteropathogen burden among children initiating tuberculosis treatment in rural Tanzania and determine the effect of enteropathogen burden on serum antimycobacterial pharmacokinetics.
Methods: We performed a prospective cohort study at one site in rural Tanzania as an exploratory substudy of a large multicountry cohort study.