Health and Wellbeing: Recent submissions
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Impacts of Multisectoral Cash Plus Programs on Marriage and Fertility After 4 Years in Pastoralist Kenya: A Randomized Trial
(National Library of MedicineScience Direct, 2022)Purpose: Early marriage has multiple drivers including cultural and social norms alongside lack of educational and economic opportunities. This complexity may explain why few programs have demonstrated marriage delays and ... -
Short- and Long-Read Metagenomics of Urban and Rural South African Gut Microbiomes Reveal a Transitional Composition and Undescribed Taxa
(National Library of MedicineNature Communications, 2022)Human gut microbiome research focuses on populations living in high-income countries and to a lesser extent, non-urban agriculturalist and hunter-gatherer societies. The scarcity of research between these extremes limits ... -
Tale of 22 Cities: Utilisation Patterns and Content of Maternal Care in Large African Cities.
(National Library of MedicineResearchGate, 2022)Introduction: Globally, the majority of births happen in urban areas. Ensuring that women and their newborns benefit from a complete package of high-quality care during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period present ... -
Level and Comfort of Caregiver-Young Adolescent Communication on Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Southwestern Uganda
(National Library of MedicineBMC Public Health, 2022)Background: Communication on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) between caregivers and their young adolescent children plays a significant role in shaping attitudes and behaviours that are critical to laying the foundations ... -
Perspectives on Returning Individual and Aggregate Genomic Research Results to Study Participants and Communities in Kenya: A Qualitative Study.
(National Library of MedicineBMC Medical Ethics, 2022)Background: A fundamental ethical challenge in conducting genomics research is the question of what and how individual level genetic findings and aggregate genomic results should be conveyed to research participants and ... -
Prevalence and Overlap of Known Undernutrition Risk Factors in Children in Nairobi Kenya.
(National Library of MedicineWiley Online Library, 2022)We aimed to describe the co-occurrence of known risk factors for undernutrition and the prevalence of modifiable risks in wasted, stunted and healthy children. Quota sampling was used to recruit healthy [weight for age Z ... -
Using Economic Diaries in an Ethnographic Study: What They Can Tell About the Financial and Daily Lives of Male and Female Sex Workers in Mombasa
(ReserchGateSage Journals, 2022)This article has two objectives: first, to contribute to the academic understanding of the relationship of money with sex work by going beyond purely instrumentalist conceptualizations; and second, to inform interventions ... -
Power and Sample Size for Longitudinal Models in R - The longpower Package and Shiny App
(The R JournalResearchGate, 2022)Longitudinal studies are ubiquitous in medical and clinical research. Sample size computations are critical to ensure that these studies are sufficiently powered to provide reliable and valid inferences. There are several ... -
Prevalence and Factors Associated With Caesarean Section in Rwanda: A Trend Analysis of Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey 2000 to 2019–20
(National Library of MedicineResearchGate, 2022)Background: Caesarean section (CS) is an important medical intervention for reducing the risk of poor perinatal outcomes. However, CS trends in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continue to increase yet maternal and neonatal mortality ... -
Integrating Adolescent Mental Health into HIV Prevention and Treatment Programs: Can Implementation Science Pave the Path Forward?
(National Library of MedicineSpringerLink, 2022)Adolescent mental health (AMH) is a critical driver of HIV outcomes, but is often overlooked in HIV research and programming. The implementation science Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) framework ...
