Publications by authors named "Sonnia-Magba Bu-Buakei Jabbi"
PREvalence Study on Surgical COnditions (PRESSCO) 2020: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Countrywide Survey on Surgical Conditions in Post-Ebola Outbreak Sierra Leone.
World J Surg
November 2022
Background: Understanding the burden of diseases requiring surgical care at national levels is essential to advance universal health coverage. The PREvalence Study on Surgical COnditions (PRESSCO) 2020 is a cross-sectional household survey to estimate the prevalence of physical conditions needing surgical consultation, to investigate healthcare-seeking behavior, and to assess changes from before the West African Ebola epidemic.
Methods: This study (ISRCTN: 12353489) was built upon the Surgeons Overseas Surgical Needs Assessment (SOSAS) tool, including expansions.
Objective: To assess the care for hypertension in Sierra Leone, by the use of a cascade-of-care approach, to identify where the need for healthcare system interventions is greatest.
Methods: Using data from a nationwide household survey on surgical conditions undertaken in 1956 participants ≥18 years from October 2019 to March 2020, a cascade of care for hypertension consisting of four categories - hypertensive population, those diagnosed, those treated and those controlled - was constructed. Hypertension was defined as having a blood pressure ≥140/90 mmHg, or self-reported use of antihypertensive medication.
Article Synopsis
- - Verbal autopsies (VAs) are used to gather data on the causes of child deaths, with Concern Worldwide partnering with Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health to implement this in urban slums from 2014 to 2017.
- - Community Health Workers registered under-five child deaths, and trained local clinicians conducted interviews using a VA protocol, leading to 215 analyzed cases that revealed neonatal pneumonia and malaria as leading causes of death.
- - Key challenges included notifying deaths and conducting VAs, while findings highlighted themes like reliance on traditional medicine and barriers to accessing healthcare.