Common ailments among sandwich students seen and treated at the University clinic

Abstract

The objective of the study is to determine the range of disease conditions presented to the UEW Clinic by students pursuing the sandwich programme between June and August every year from 2010-2012. This is a descriptive cross sectional study; retrospective with regards to the data collection. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. About 369 patient folders, 109 of which represent 50% of sandwich student who visited the Clinic between June and August in year 2010 were randomly selected , 132 from year 2011 and 128 from the same period in year 2012 were selected to be part of this study. Nearly 80% of all sampled patient folders were aged between 19 and 44 years; 56% were of the female gender; 91% were diagnosed of a condition which was acute in nature; 90% of all chronic conditions were diagnosed to be Hypertension with the rest being Diabetes. About 51% were diagnosed with Malaria; Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (URTI)-11%, Gsatroenteritis-10%, Hypertension (HBP)-9%, Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)- 5%, Volvo-Viginal Candidiasis (VVC) -3% , Otitis Media-3%, Septic Wound- 3% and Conjunctivitis- 2%.