Severity of Injury and Associated Factors among Injured Patients Who Visited the Emergency Department at Wolaita Sodo Teaching and Referral Hospital, Ethiopia.

Background: An injury is a physical damage that occurs when the body is exposed to an excessive amount of energy. Physical agents, radiation, chemical agents, biological agents and physiological needs deprivation can cause injury. The study was aimed at assessing the severity of injury and identifying the factors associated with it among injured patients.

Institutional delivery service use and associated factors among women who delivered during the last 2 years in Dallocha town, SNNPR, Ethiopia.

Aim: To determine the institutional delivery service use and identify factors associated among women who delivered during the last two years in Dallocha town.

Design: A community-based cross-sectional study.

Methods: The study was conducted from 10 March-10 April 2016.

Predictors of therapeutic communication between nurses and hospitalized patients.

Background: Therapeutic communication is a purposeful interaction between health professionals and patients that helps to achieve positive health outcomes. There is a pressing need for research examining factors influencing effective implementation of therapeutic communication in relation to patient-centered care and satisfaction.

Objective: This study was aimed at determining the effective implementation of therapeutic communication and its predictors.

Stunting and Its Determinants among Children Aged 6-59 Months in Northern Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Stunting reflects chronic undernutrition during the most critical periods of growth and development in early life. The study was aimed at assessing the magnitude of stunting and associated factors among children aged 6-59 month in central Ethiopia.

Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 410 children aged between 6 and 59 months.