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Application of Discrete-time, Right Censored Survival and Unbalanced Three-stage Hierarchical Design

The portion of university students now nursing never-ending diseases including but not restricted to depression, HIV/AIDs, asthma, stroke and chronic sort diseases, is alarming, and for a very long time, these students are always thought to be healthful. However, research shows otherwise with until 30% of the students nursing the afflictions. Previous research worldwide shows that until 30% of university students maybe infected at a given period. This research aimed to study the issues concerning chronic afflictions among university undergraduates in Kenya. The specific objectives contained estimation of the portion of students currently agony from the diseases, determining their belongings and factors associated with ruling class. The mixed-study design was used. Random sampling was done among scholars in two selected universities in Kenya and a inquiry was used in dossier collection. 739 students acknowledged to the research questions. Minitab, SPSS and R software were involved in dossier management for comparison purpose, exceptionally for statistically significant results. From the study, currently, there are nearly 14.6% of the students are suffering from never-ending diseases, and this proportion is meaningful (p-value<0.0001). Among the polluted, 60.19% were females and the rest were men. Among the sick, only 43.52% have let the academy clinics hear about their conditions while more than 50% have secret the vital information. The determinants ‘family history’, ‘involvement in drugs’, ‘selected life-styles’ and ‘extreme want’ were found to be considerably associated with chronic afflictions among the students. On the belongings, the diseases were raise to be negatively moving the aspects of life of the contaminated students. Survival of the graduates was found to be bearing a mean and median survival occasion of 29.9472 and 30.27 years respectively. It is decided that there is need for attack among university graduates as 14.6% is not a number to be neglected. It is recommended that the stakeholders at hand together and arrest the situation before belongings slip out of hand.


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