Dareje Chala Diriba

Name: Dareje Chala Diriba

 Academic Rank:  Assistant Professor    

 College/Institute: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Institute of Health Sciences, Wollega University.

Department/Team: Comprehensive Nursing

Current position : Research and community service corporate Director

Field of Specialization: BSc in Nursing

 MSc in Adult Health Nursing

 PhD in Nursing

Research Interest: My research focuses on nursing, public health, and chronic disease management, with a particular emphasis on diabetes. I employ both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. My methodological interests include randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, narrative reviews, as well as the validation and cultural adaptation of measurement tools and other epidemiological study designs. To date, I have published 21 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

List of Publications

1. Diriba CD, Leung DYP, Suen LKP. A nurse-led, community-based self-management program for people living with type 2 diabetes in Western Ethiopia: A feasibility and pilot study protocol. Diabet Med. 2021;38(8):e14587. DOI: 10.1111/dme.14587
2. .Diriba DC, Bekuma TT, Bobo FT. Predictors of self-management practices among diabetic patients attending hospitals in western Oromia, Ethiopia. PLoS One. 2020;15(5):e0232524. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232524
3. Diriba DC, Leung DYP, Suen LKP. The effects of diabetes self-management interventions on physiological outcomes in people living with diabetes in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Diabet Med. 2021;38(5):e14501. DOI: 10.1111/dme.14501
4. Diriba DC, Leung DYP, Suen LKP. Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Diabetes Quality of Life Scale in Afaan Oromoo among People Living with Type 2 Diabetes in Ethiopia. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021;18(14). DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18147435
5. Fekadu G, Bekele F, Tolossa T, Fetensa G, Turi E, Getachew M, et al. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on chronic diseases care follow-up and current perspectives in low resource settings: a narrative review. Int J Physiol Pathophysiol Pharmacol. 2021;13(3):86-93.
6. Fekadu G, Turi E, Kasu T, Bekele F, Chelkeba L, Tolossa T, Diriba DC, et al. Impact of HIV status and predictors of successful treatment outcomes among tuberculosis patients: A six-year retrospective cohort study. Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2020;60:531-41. Journal IF (2021): 1.346
7. Regassa T, Chala D, Adeba E. Premarital Sex in the Last Twelve Months and Its Predictors among Students of Wollega University, Ethiopia. Ethiop J Health Sci. 2016;26(4):351-8.
8. Woyessa AH, Tharmalingadevar TP, Upashe SP, Diriba DC. Primary school teachers' misconceptions about Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Nekemte town, Oromia region, Western Ethiopia. BMC Res Notes. 2019;12(1):524. DOI: 10.1186/s13104-019-4573-9
9. Mulisa D, Tolossa T, Oluma Ayana A, Regasa MT, Bayisa L, Abera T, Diriba DC, et al. Nurses are leaving the nursing profession: A finding from the willingness of the nurses to stay in the nursing profession among nurses working in selected public hospitals of Wollega Zones, Oromia, Ethiopia. SAGE Open Med. 2022;10:20503121221081755. DOI: 10.1177/20503121221081755
10. Thanasekaran P, Upashe SP, Chala D. Primary school teacher's knowledge towards attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its associated factors in Nekemte Town, Oromiya Region, Western Ethiopia. Science, Technology and Arts Research Journal. 2016;5(1):76-9. DOI: 10.4314/star.v5i1.11
11. Thanasekaran P, Chala D. Cyber Disorder. Int J Sci Res. 2015;4(4):390-2.
12. Kebebew GM, Mulisa D, Oluma A, Bayisa L, Merdassa E, Bayisa D, Diriba DC, et al. HIV sero-status disclosure and associated factors among HIV positive women in East Africa: Systematic review and Meta-analysis. Implications for Prevention of Mother to Child HIV transmission. Frontiers in public health.4468. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.919410
13. Diriba DC, Leung DYP, Suen LKP. Factors predicted quality of life of people with type 2 diabetes in western Ethiopia. PLoS One. 2023;18(2):e0281716. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281716
14. Diriba, D. C., Suen, L. K. P., & Leung, D. Y. P. (2023). Effects of a culturally tailored, family-supported, community-based self management education and support programme on clinical outcomes among adults with type 2 diabetes in Western Ethiopia: A pilot randomised controlled trial. Diabet Med, e15094. doi:10.1111/dme.15094.
15. Mosisa, G., Diriba, D. C., Tsegaye, R., Kejela, G., Bayisa, D., Oluma, A., . . . Tufa, G. (2023). Burden of intestinal parasitic infections and associated factors among pregnant women in East Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Matern Health Neonatol Perinatol, 9(1), 5. doi:10.1186/s40748-023-00150-8
16. Diriba DC, Leung DYP, Suen LKP. Effects of family-based diabetes self-management education and support programme on support behaviour amongst adults with type 2 diabetes in Western Ethiopia. Sci Rep. 2023;13(1):20867.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-48049-w
17. Dereje Chala Diriba and Temesgen Tilahun. Transforming research in Ethiopia: The case of health and medicine research. 2024 V1I1, Medical and Health Sciences Research Journal
18. Diriba DC, Leung DYP, Suen LKP. Nurse-led self-management education and support programme on self-management behaviour and quality of life among adults with type 2 diabetes: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Int J Nurs Pract. 2024.DOI: 10.1111/ijn.13245
19. Diriba DC, Tilahun T. Nurses’ perception of the hospitals’ culture and readiness of evidence-based practise integration in the hospital’s system in western Ethiopia. BMC Nursing. 2024;23(1):103. DOI: 10.1186/s12912-024-01741-2
20. Motuma KD, Gelesa FR, Lema M, Diriba DC. Health-related quality of life and associated factors among individuals with heart failure attending public hospitals in Nekemte town, Western Oromia, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2025;25(1):550. DOI: 10.1186/s12872-025-05007-w
21. Geleta ZM, Diriba DC, Jabana DE. Perceived family support status and associated factors among people with hypertension in Nekemte City public hospitals, Western Ethiopia. PLoS One. 2025 May 14;20(5):e0321156. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0321156. PMID: 40367035; PMCID: PMC12077712.

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