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Infant feeding practices and anaemia in 9-month-old infants
Published in Cut Adeya Adella, Stem Cell Oncology, 2018
D.P. Amri, T. Sembiring, P. Sianturi, T. Faranita, W. Pratita
The subjects of this study were 9-month-old infants brought to puskesmas or posyandu, as mentioned above. The subjects who met the inclusion criteria were recruited using the consecutive sampling method. Parents were interviewed to obtain a socio-economic characteristic of the family along with infant feeding practices (e.g. breastfeeding exclusively, the age when complementary feeding started, when the first complementary food was given, the animal protein content, the preparation of complementary food and the frequency of giving one type of complementary food). The subjects’ body weight and length were measured, and blood haemoglobin levels measured using a HemoCue® Hb 201+System device. This research received ethical approval from the Ethical Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sumatera Utara, and has also been approved by the local public health office, puskesmas and posyandu, in which this research took place.
Design Recommendations towards Developing a Smartphone-Based Point-of-Care Tool for Rural Bangladeshi Users
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2023
Md Kamrul Hasan, Devansh Saxena, Yakin Rubaiat, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Shion Guha
People living in low-resource settings have limited access to a convenient, affordable, and usable blood diagnostic center. So rural patients visit city hospitals and diagnostic centers frequently. Traveling to a city diagnostic center is the most challenging task due to weak Communication infrastructure. When patients arrive at a diagnostic center, they must maintain a long queue; if a call from a health assistant is found, patients are allowed to give a blood sample by pricking a fingertip or inserting a needle into a vein in the patient’s arm. Few urban diagnostic centers have expensive portable blood hemoglobin diagnostic tools (e.g., HemoCue, a commercially available device). However, most rural diagnostic centers cannot afford those POC tools due to their cost. In this case, a smartphone-based solution might fill the gap, but we need to investigate how a smartphone-based solution is viable for them. The investigation is necessary because rural people might have limited knowledge to operate and understand the interface of a smartphone app. In addition, the general guidelines of HCI4D and ICT4D do not cover the details of designing a mobile phone’s app interface.
Environmental exposure to lead and hematological parameters in Afro-Brazilian children living near artisanal glazed pottery workshops
Published in Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, 2020
Homegnon A. F. Bah, Matheus J. Bandeira, Erival A. Gomes-Junior, Ana Laura S. Anjos, Ynayara J. M. Rodrigues, Nathália R. dos Santos, Victor O. Martinez, Rômula B. M. A. Rocha, Renata G. Costa, Elisângela V. Adorno, José A. Menezes-Filho
Since iron interacts with Pb toxicokinetics, its nutritional deficiency was assessed. Hemoglobin concentration was determined using the portable equipment Hemocue (HemoCue AB, Angelholm, Sweden). Anemia was defined as an Hb concentration lower than 11.5 g/dL.[33] Serum ferritin was evaluated from serum by chemiluminescence method with an Access 2 Immunoassay System (Beckman Coulter, USA). Serum iron (FeS) and TIBC were evaluated by the ferrozine methodology with a Labmax 560 analyzer (LabtestDiagnóstica, MG, Brazil). The transferrin saturation (Tr Sat.) was deduced according to the Eq. (4).[39]