Mihiretu M. Kebede- PhD
- PostDoc at German Cancer Research Center
Mihiretu M. Kebede
- PhD
- PostDoc at German Cancer Research Center
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Introduction
Current institution
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March 2020 - present
April 2016 - February 2020
November 2012 - March 2016
Position
- Lecturer
Description
- Courses including Evidence Based Practice, Evidence-Based medicine, Introduction to Health Informatics, Scientometrics, Introduction to Health Informatics, eHealth, Health Management Information System, Data Management and analysis and literature review.
Publications
Publications (65)
Background and objectives:
To monitor the progress of therapy and disease progression, periodic CD4 counts are required throughout the course of HIV/AIDS care and support. The demand for CD4 count measurement is increasing as ART programs expand over the last decade. This study aimed to predict CD4 count changes and to identify the predictors of C...
Background: Digital interventions may assist patients with type 2 diabetes in improving glycemic control. We aimed to synthesize effect sizes of digital interventions on glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and to identify effective features of digital interventions targeting patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes.
Materials and Methods: MED...
Aims
Pooling the effect sizes of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from continuous outcomes, such as glycated hemoglobin level (HbA1c), is an important method in evidence syntheses. However, due to challenges related to baseline imbalances and pre/post correlations, simple analysis of change scores (SACS) and simple analysis of final values (SAFV...
Introduction: This study aimed to identify popular diabetes applications (apps) and to investigate the association of diabetes app use and other factors with cumulative self-care behavior.
Methods: From November 2017 to March 2018, we conducted a web-based survey with persons 18 years of age and above. We recruited respondents via diabetes Facebook...
We aimed to evaluate the performance of supervised machine learning algorithms in predicting articles relevant for full‐text review in a systematic review. Overall, 16,430 manually screened titles/abstracts, including 861 references identified relevant for full‐text review were used for the analysis. Of these, 40% (n=6573) were sub‐divided for trai...
Introduction
Preexisting and pregnancy‐related medical conditions frequently co‐occur, leading to multimorbidity (≥2 morbidities) in pregnant women, and much of this information is in semi‐structured format in electronic medical records (EMRs). The aim was to advance the learning health system as a platform for automating information extraction fro...
This review aimed to systematically quantify the differences in Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) prevalence across various ethnic groups in high-income countries by sex, and to evaluate the overall prevalence trends from 1996 to 2022. We conducted a systematic literature review using MEDLINE, Web of Science Core Collection, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Librar...
Objectives High blood pressure is a common health concern among seafarers. However, due to the remote nature of their work, it can be difficult for them to access regular monitoring of their blood pressure. Therefore, the development of a risk prediction model for hypertension in seafarers is important for early detection and prevention. This study...
Background:
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) bridges research and clinical practice to enhance medical knowledge and improve patient care. However, clinical decisions in many African countries don't base on the best available scientific evidence. Hence, this study aimed to determine the effect of training interventions on background knowledge and awa...
Background
The serum lipid and immunohematological values of tuberculosis lymphadenitis (TBLN) patients is poorly documented relative to pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) cases. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the serum lipid and immunohematological values of patients with TBLN in comparison with PTB (PTB) patients.
Methods
An insti...
Background
Universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities is an essential human right, recognised in the Sustainable Development Goals as crucial for preventing disease and improving human wellbeing. Comprehensive, high-resolution estimates are important to inform progress towards achieving this goal. We aimed to produce high-res...
Background: Health service utilization among out-of-pocket payers and fee-wavier users and factors associated with it in Saesie Tsaeda-Emba District, Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia.
Methods: A comparative community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Northern Ethiopia. Households with at least one person who experienced illness during th...
Oral rehydration solution (ORS) is a form of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for diarrhoea that has the potential to drastically reduce child mortality; yet, according to UNICEF estimates, less than half of children younger than 5 years with diarrhoea in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) received ORS in 2016. A variety of recommended ho...
Background:
Metabolic syndrome is a constellation of various cardiovascular and type 2 diabetes risk factors, such as abdominal obesity, atherogenic dyslipidemia, high blood pressure, and high blood glucose, but its prevalence varies widely by geographical region, sex, and race/ethnicity. The objective of this study is to examine the prevalence an...
Background: Metabolic Syndrome is a constellation of various cardiovascular and type 2 diabetes risk factors, such as abdominal obesity, atherogenic dyslipidemia, high blood pressure and high blood glucose, but its prevalence varies widely by geographical region, sex and race/ethnicity. The objective of this study will be to examine the prevalence...
Background
Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a constellation of several known cardiovascular and type 2 diabetes risk factors, including hyperglycemia, obesity, dyslipidemia and hypertension. While there is some evidence that MetS differ between some population subgroups (i.e., sex, race and ethnicity), not much is known about patterns of MetS among dif...
Background: Understanding the patterns of HIV/AIDS epidemics is crucial to tracking and monitoring the progress of prevention and control efforts in countries. We provide a comprehensive assessment of the levels and trends of HIV/AIDS incidence, prevalence, mortality, and coverage of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for 1980-2017 and forecast these est...
Background:
Skilled assistance during childbirth is essential to reduce maternal deaths. However, in Ethiopia, which is among the six countries contributing to more than half of the global maternal deaths, the coverage of births attended by skilled health personnel remains very low. The aim of this study was to identify determinants and develop a...
Background and aims: The use of diabetes apps for self-management may be related to improvements in clinical and behavioral outcomes of diabetes. In this study, we aimed to investigate the impact of diabetes app use on key self-care behavior domains: physical activity, diet, foot care, and blood glucose monitoring.
Materials and methods: Between...
Introduction: Digital profiling methods applied in social media may help survey researchers reach geographically diverse and large scale populations. We aimed to collect self-reported data from persons with diabetes via Facebook groups and targeted Facebook ads and to share our experiences to future researchers who wish to apply similar recruiting...
Introduction: We aimed to determine self-care practice and to investigate the relationship between diabetes app use and other factors with self-care behaviour.
Methods: From November 2017-March 2018, we conducted a web-based cross-sectional survey. Responses were collected using Facebook groups, targeted Facebook advertisements and diabetes onlin...
A Corrigendum on Popular Diabetes Apps and the Impact of Diabetes App Use on Self-Care Behaviour: A Survey Among the Digital Community of Persons With Diabetes on Social Media
by Kebede, M. M., and Pischke, C. R. (2019). Front. Endocrinol. 10:135. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2019.00135
In the original article, there was an error. The diabetes app “mySugr”...
Objectives This study aimed at determining access to mobile phone and willingness to receive mobile phone-based diabetes health services as well as identify associated factors in Northwest Ethiopia.
Design An institution-based cross-sectional survey was conducted from February to March 2016.
Participants Systematic randomly selected 423 patients...
Background: This study investigated the determinants (with a special emphasis on the role of diabetes app use, use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device, and self-care behavior) of glycemic control of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Methods: A web-based survey was conducted using diabetes Facebook groups, online patient-forums, an...
Background: Regular moderate to vigorous physical activity is essential for maintaining health and preventing the onset of chronic diseases. Both global rates of smartphone ownership and the market for physical activity and fitness apps have grown rapidly in recent years. The use of physical activity and fitness apps may assist the general populati...
Background: Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) care is a lifelong treatment, which needs accurate and reliable data collected for long period of time. Poor quality of medical records data remains a challenge and is directly related to the quality of care of patients. To improve this, there is an increasing trend to implement electronic medical record (E...
Background
Absence of reliable health insurance schemes is a key challenge to meet the universal health coverage target of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ethiopian health system is characterized by under financing, low protection mechanisms for the poor, and lack of mechanisms of risk pooling and cost sharing. Ethiopia is implementing so...
Objective: Digital interventions may assist patients with type 2 diabetes with improving glycaemic control. We aimed to synthesize effect sizes of digital interventions on glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and to identify effective features of digital interventions targeting patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes.
Research Design and Met...
Background:
Regular moderate to vigorous physical activity (PA) is essential for maintaining health and preventing the onset of chronic diseases. Both, global rates of smartphone ownership and the market for PA and fitness applications (apps) have grown rapidly in recent years. The use of PA and fitness apps may assist the general population in re...
BACKGROUND
Regular moderate to vigorous physical activity is essential for maintaining health and preventing the onset of chronic diseases. Both global rates of smartphone ownership and the market for physical activity and fitness apps have grown rapidly in recent years. The use of physical activity and fitness apps may assist the general populatio...
Background: Health workforce information systems in low-income countries tend to be defective with poor relationship to information sources. Human Resource Information System (HRIS) is currently in a pilot implementation phase in the Federal Ministry of Health and Regional Health Bureaus of Ethiopia. Before scaling up the implementation, it is impo...
Background:
The incorporation of Behavioral Change Techniques (BCTs) in eHealth interventions for the management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), might be a promising approach to improve clinical and behavioral outcomes of NCDs in the long run. This 3paper reports a protocol for a systematic review that...
Background: The behavior change technique taxonomy v1 (BCTTv1; Michie and colleagues, 2013) is a comprehensive tool to characterize active ingredients of interventions and includes 93 labels that are hierarchically clustered into 16 hierarchical clusters.
Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the active ingredients in electronic health...
Background:
Healthcare and clinical laboratory practices are constantly evolving, leading a need for evidence-based practice (EBP) among all laboratory professionals. However, EBP among laboratory professionals has not yet been studied in Ethiopia.
Aims:
This study aimed to determine EBP and associated factors among medical laboratory profession...
http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?ID=CRD42016049940
Background
The fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targeted at improving maternal health. In this regard, Ethiopia has shown substantial progresses in the past two decades. Nonetheless, these impressive gains are unevenly distributed among Ethiopian women with different socio-economic characteristics. This study aimed at investigating levels an...
Background: Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a problem-solving approach to patient care based on the best available and valid evidence. It is accentuated to increase the quality of care and patient safety. EBP in clinical service is low in developing countries including Ethiopia. This study aimed at assessing EBP and associated factors among health...
Press freedom and worldwide internet access have opened ample opportunity for a staggering number of poor open access journals and junk publishers to emerge. Dubious publishers are abusing and camouflaging the golden open access model. In 2012, Jeffery Beall shed light on the predatory journals (as he preferred to call them) and the threat to open...
Background
Maternal mortality and morbidity are the priority agenda for sub-Saharan Africa including Ethiopia. Uterine rupture is the leading cause of maternal and fetal death in developing countries. Limited evidence is available on the magnitude of uterine rupture; maternal and fetal outcomes of uterine rupture and factors associated with materna...
Press freedom and worldwide internet access have opened ample opportunity for a staggering number of poor open access journals and junk publishers to emerge. Dubious publishers are abusing and camouflaging the golden open access model. In 2012, Jeffery Beall shed light on the predatory journals (as he preferred to call them) and the threat to open...
Introduction: Even though nursing care documentation is an important part of nursing practice, it is commonly left undone. The objective of this study was to assess nursing care documentation practice and the associated factors among nurses who are working at the University of Gondar Hospital.
Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study wa...
More than 32% of maternal mortality reported in Ethiopia is due to unsafe abortions. Women’s knowledge of abortion legislation is a key determinant of the utilization of safe abortion services. The objective of this study was to determine knowledge of abortion legislation and associated factors among female students of Dabat Preparatory School. A q...
Background
Improving child health and reducing child mortality rate are key health priorities in developing countries. This study aimed to identify determinants and develop a web-based child mortality prediction model in Ethiopian local language using classification data mining algorithm.
Methods
Decision tree (using J48 algorithm) and rule induc...
Cost and benefit analyses are crucial for eHealth interventions, especially in low and middle income countries (LMIC). We performed a scoping review, with goals to acquire an overview of cost-benefit studies and to collect indicators that are being used for costs and savings with respect to eHealth. Of all retrieved articles, 29 were included in ou...
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Background: Non-adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) is strongly associated with virologic rebound and drug resistance. Studies have shown that the most frequently mentioned reason for missing ART doses is the forgetfulness of patients to take their medications on time. Therefore using communication devices as reminder tools, for example ala...
Background and purpose:Managing the health system using reliable information for decision-making is a priority to all countries. The need for graduate-level health informatics training for health care professionals, who are capable of producing or facilitating the system, is a crucial, and often overlooked, aspect for the health information systems...
Background and purpose: For successful implementation projects of health information systems, it
is evident that a skilled workforce is needed. The department of health informatics at the University
of Gondar in Ethiopia is the only health informatics teaching and research institution in Ethiopia. The
department teaches health informatics at bachel...
The future course of effective HIV/AIDS prevention and control depends on a number of factors. HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT) has been considered an essential service and a vital entry point in the management of HIV/AIDS; providing a continuum for HIV prevention and provision of care, treatment and support services. According to Ethiopian Demogra...
Background: The effort for preventing HIV/AIDS (Human Immune Deficiency Syndrome/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) ranges from behavioral intervention to introduction of antiretroviral Treatment (ART) program. ART has dramatically improved the livelihood of people living with HIV/AIDS. World Health Organization(WHO) recommends the optimum time f...
Questions
Questions (8)
Here in Researchgate, I have seen many people sharing reviewers comments and author's response documents. Sharing these documents might help especially if someone want to learn what were the questions and comments raised by the reviewers and how the author responded to the reviewers comments. This is helpful especially to students who are new in scientific publication. It is also helpful to improve transparency in science.
However, the issue of authorship remains unclear in these documents. The reviewers comments is written by the reviewers not by the authors and I feel the author should not take credit for it. But if the author still wants to share it, I suggest tagging the reviewers with the document is important. Any opinion? In many open access journals who use open peer review policy, there is a possibility to know who the reviewers were at least when the paper is published.
