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Factors before enrolment are associated with being removed from a pharmacy-only refill program at a large urban HIV/AIDS clinic, Uganda Institute of Tropical Medicine University of Antwerp

A. Nakiwogga-Muwanga, E Katabira, A Kiragga, A Kambugu, E. Nakibuuka-Lubwama, Y.C. Manabe, S.T. Alamo, Robert Colebunders
Background: A Pharmacy-only Refill Program is a type of task shifting in which stable HIV-positive patients are managed through pharmacy-only visits instead of physician visits. The purpose of this study was to identify factors for being removed from the Pharmacy-only Refill Program in order to establish better referring criteria. Methods: The study was performed at the Infectious Disease Clinic in Kampala, Uganda. We selected a random sample of ...

School of choice or schools’ choice? Intersectional correspondence testing on ethnic and class discrimination in the enrolment procedure to Flemish kindergarten Ghent University Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Dounia Bourabain, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe, Peter Stevens
Most research on intake focusses on the restrictions parents' capital cause on their abilities to choose. However, the steering effect of schools in the choice-process has been neglected. We chose the Flemish context to investigate ethnic- and class-discrimination in the enrolment to kindergarten (N = 2243). The Flemish education system is known for its exceptional 'freedom of choice' allowing parents to enrol their children into their school of ...

Heterogeneous treatment under regression discontinuity design : application to female high school enrolment Ghent University

Yasin Kursat Önder, Mrittika Shamsuddin
This paper undertakes a regression discontinuity (RD) framework with multiple cutoffs unlike typical RD setting where researchers normalize the score variable and pool all the observations. This paper explores this heterogeneity in the effect of Islamic mayor on female secular high schooling in Turkey using the multiple cutoff RD framework developed in Cattaneo et al. (2016). The presence of many parties in the 1994 municipality election in ...

Understanding the limitations of “quasi-mandatory” approaches to enrolment in community-based health insurance: Empirical evidence from Tanzania KU Leuven

Adeline Ajuaye, Boris Verbrugge, Jan Van Ongevalle, Patrick Develtere
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. In recent decades, a growing number of low-income countries (LICs) have experimented with voluntary community-based health insurance (CBHI), as an instrument to extend social health protection to the rural poor and the informal sector. While modest successes have been achieved, important challenges remain with regard to the recruitment and retention of members, and the regular collection of membership fees. In ...

Primary teachers' perceptions that impact upon track recommendations regarding pupils' enrolment in secondary education: a path analysis University of Antwerp

Elien Sneyers, Jan Vanhoof, Paul Mahieu
In less meritocratic educational systems, teachers' decision-making processes and their perceptions of pupils are essential for the practice of pupils' allocation at transitory moments. The present study investigated how perceptions held by teachers impact upon teacher track recommendations regarding pupils' enrolment in secondary education in Flanders. By means of structural equation modelling, we studied the hypothesised impact of pupils' ...

How do students and lecturers experience the interactive use of handheld technology in large enrolment courses? KU Leuven

Tom Van Daele, Carolien Frijns, Jeroen Lievens
Although constructivist theories have shown learning is accelerated by involvement and meaningful lecturer–student and student–student interaction, these ingredients are mostly absent from large attendance lectures. A number of studies have already focused on more active ways of learning in large lecture classrooms, most often by using student response systems or “clickers”. This field study wishes to extend the current knowledge base by ...

Trends in Pre-School Enrolment in Turkey: Unequal Access and Differential Consequences. Comparative Education KU Leuven Ghent University

Orhan Agirdag
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In this study, a historical and international analysis of early childhood education in Turkey is made. More specifically, we explore the trend in pre-school enrolment, compare Turkey's enrolment rate with other countries, study whether access to pre-school is related to social class and gender, and investigate the impact of pre-school attendance on later academic performance. We use data from the PISA (Programme for ...

Challenges, successes and patterns of enrolment in the INSIGHT Strategic Timing of AntiRetroviral Treatment (START) trial Institute of Tropical Medicine

J Grarup, C Rappoport, N W Engen, C Carey, F Hudson, E Denning, S. Sharma, Eric Florence, M J Vjecha

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this report is to describe the challenges, successes and patterns of enrolment in the Strategic Timing of AntiRetroviral Treatment (START) study.

METHODS: START is a collaboration of many partners with central coordination provided by the protocol team, the statistical and data management centre (SDMC), the International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Trials (INSIGHT) network leadership, ...

Advanced HIV disease at enrolment in HIV care Institute of Tropical Medicine

Reaksmey Pe, Bopha Chim, Sopheak Thai, Lut Lynen, Johan van Griensven

BACKGROUND: Early HIV diagnosis and enrolment in care is needed to achieve early antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation. Studies on HIV disease stage at enrolment in care from Asian countries are limited. We evaluated trends in and factors associated with late HIV disease presentation over a ten-year period in the largest ART center in Cambodia.

METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of program data including all ARV-naïve ...