Browsing by Author "Ndirangu, Eunice"

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    Health Care Provider Factors That Influence the Implementation of Policy on Management of Childhood Illnesses in Bomet County
    (Journal of Medicine, Nursing & Public Health, 2018) Chalulot, Geoffrey Kipkorir; Njuguna, Susan; Ndirangu, Eunice
    Abstract The study aimed at determining the health care provider factors that influence the implementation of Policy on management of childhood illnesses at Bomet County. A descriptive cross sectional study design with both quantitative and qualitative approaches was employed. The study was carried out in Bomet County. The study population was a total of 279 health workers in Bomet County Hospital and Tenwek Hospital. A sample of 164 was arrived at which was selected using stratified and simple random sampling technique. The quantitative data was analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 22) and presented through frequencies and percentages. The study also established a significant positive relationship between health care provider factors and implementation of policy on management of childhood illnesses where a unit increase in health care provider factors leads to an increase in implementation of policy by 0.759, p˃0.01. The study recommended that Health care providers require support to be able to use the knowledge and skills acquired for implementation of the policy on management of childhood illnesses.
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    Health Trainer Factors That Influence the Implementation of Policy on Management of Childhood Illnesses in Bomet County
    (Journal of Medicine, Nursing & Public Health, 2018) Kipkorir Chalulot, Geoffrey; Njuguna, Susan; Ndirangu, Eunice
    Abstract The study aimed at determining the health trainer factors that influence the implementation of Policy on management of childhood illnesses at Bomet County. A descriptive cross sectional study design with both quantitative and qualitative approaches was employed. The study was carried out in Bomet County. The study population was a total of 279 health workers in Bomet County Hospital and Tenwek Hospital. A sample of 164 was arrived at which was selected using stratified and simple random sampling technique. The quantitative data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 22). The study found out that health trainer factors do not significantly influence implementation.The study recommended that the health trainers role in the implementation of the policy on childhood illnesses be reviewed.
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    Institutional Factors that Influence the Implementation of Policy on Management of Childhood Illnesses in Bomet County
    (Journal of Medicine, Nursing &Public Health, 2018-09) Chalulot, Geoffrey Kipkorir; Njuguna, Susan; Ndirangu, Eunice
    The study aimed at establishing the institutional factors that influenced the implementation of policy on management of childhood illnesses in Bomet County. A descriptive cross sectional study design with both quantitative and qualitative approaches was used for data collection. The study population was a total of 279 health workers in Bomet County Hospital and Tenwek Hospital. A sample of 164 was arrived at which was selected using stratified and simple random sampling technique. The quantitative data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 24). The study established a significant positive relationship between institutional factors of enhancing compliance to policy procedures on implementation of policy on management of childhood illnesses at 0.824, p˃0.01. The study recommends that health institutions in Bomet County facilitate the dissemination and compliance to the implementation of the policy on management of childhood illnesses.
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    Patient Factors that Influence The Implementation of Policy on Management of Childhood Illnesses in Bomet County.
    (African Journal of Emerging Issues, 2019) Ndirangu, Eunice; Njuguna, Susan; Chalulot, Kipkorir Geoffrey
    Purpose: The study aimed at determining the patient factors that influence the implementation of Policy on management of childhood illnesses at Bomet County. Methods: The study adopted a descriptive cross sectional study design was carried out in Bomet County. The study population was a total of 279 health workers in Bomet County Hospital and Tenwek Hospital. A sample of 164 was arrived at which was selected using stratified and simple random sampling technique. The quantitative data was analyzed Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 22). Results: The study found that Patient factors have a significant influence on the implementation of the policy on management of childhood illnesses in Bomet County. The study found that the level of knowledge respondents provided to the patients on IMCI and ETAT in the hospital and the level of access for patients to the hospital significant at p˃0.01. The study further discovered a significant positive relationship between patient factors and implementation of policy on management of childhood illnesses where a unit increase in patient factors would lead an increase in implementation of policy by 0.350. Recommendations: The study recommended that awareness should be created for patients to demand for services on management of childhood illnesses.