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Effectiveness of school-based psychological interventions for the treatment of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2023

Authors & Co-authors: Azale Gelaye Asrat Yirdaw Gebeyehu Tareke

Effects of improved on-farm crop storage on perceived stress and perceived coping in pregnant women-Evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Kenya.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2023

Authors & Co-authors: Eichenauer Huss Brander Bernauer Ehlert

Development and validation of a prediction tool to support engagement in HIV care among young people ages 10-24 years in Kenya.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2023

Authors & Co-authors: Wilson Agot Dyer Badia Kibugi Bosire Neary Inwani Beima-Sofie Shah

Evidence on the links between water insecurity, inadequate sanitation and mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2023

Authors & Co-authors: Kimutai Lund Moturi Shewangizaw Feyasa Hanlon

Personality traits and substance use among college students in Eldoret, Kenya.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2023

Authors & Co-authors: Kinyanjui Sum

The prevalence and factors associated with mental disorders in a community setting in central Uganda.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2023

Authors & Co-authors: Akena Kiguba Muwhezi Kwesiga Kigozi Lukwata Nakasujja

Mental health and gender-based violence: An exploration of depression, PTSD, and anxiety among adolescents in Kenyan informal settlements participating in an empowerment intervention.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2023

Authors & Co-authors: Friedberg Baiocchi Rosenman Amuyunzu-Nyamongo Nyairo Sarnquist

Understanding depression treatment and perinatal service preferences of Kenyan pregnant adolescents: A discrete choice experiment.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2023

Authors & Co-authors: Kumar Tele Kathono Nyongesa Yator Mwaniga Huang McKay Lai Levy

Cultural and contextual adaptation of mental health measures in Kenya: An adolescent-centered transcultural adaptation of measures study.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2022

Authors & Co-authors: Nyongesa Kathono Mwaniga Yator Madeghe Kanana Amugune Anyango Nyamai Wambua

Occupational roles and risks of community-embedded peer educators providing HIV, hepatitis C and harm reduction services to persons who inject drugs in Nairobi, Kenya.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2022

Authors & Co-authors: Masese Ludwig-Barron Mbogo Guthrie Musyoki Bukusi Sinkele Gitau Farquhar Monroe-Wise

In-school adolescents' loneliness, social support, and suicidal ideation in sub-Saharan Africa: Leveraging Global School Health data to advance mental health focus in the region.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2022

Authors & Co-authors: Aboagye Ahinkorah Seidu Okyere Frimpong Kumar

Mixed-methods analysis of select issues reported in the 2016 World Health Organization verbal autopsy questionnaire.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2022

Authors & Co-authors: Nichols Pettrone Vickers Gebrehiwet Surek-Clark Leitao Amouzou Blau Bradshaw Abdelilah

Improving stigma and psychosocial outcomes among post-abortion Kenyan women attending private clinics: A randomized controlled trial of a person-centered mobile phone-based intervention.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2022

Authors & Co-authors: Sudhinaraset Landrian Cotter Golub Opot Seefeld Phillips Ikiugu

A systematic review of substance use and substance use disorder research in Kenya.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2022

Authors & Co-authors: Jaguga Kiburi Temet Barasa Karanja Kinyua Kwobah

Prognostic indicators and outcomes of hospitalised COVID-19 patients with neurological disease: An individual patient data meta-analysis.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2022

Authors & Co-authors: Singh Lant Cividini Cattrall Goodwin Benjamin Michael Khawaja Matos Alkeridy

Mental health disorders among post graduate residents in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2022

Authors & Co-authors: Ali Shah Du Leekha Talib

Gendered health, economic, social and safety impact of COVID-19 on adolescents and young adults in Nairobi, Kenya.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors: Decker Wood Thiongo Byrne Devoto Morgan Bevilacqua Williams Stuart Wamue-Ngare

Social, economic, and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents retained in or recently disengaged from HIV care in Kenya.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors: Enane Apondi Aluoch Bakoyannis Lewis Kulzer Kwena Kantor Chory Gardner Scanlon

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and associated factors among psychiatric patients at University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors: Woldekidan Mohammed Degu Tadiwos

COVID-19 and mental well-being of nurses in a tertiary facility in Kenya.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors: Ali Shah Talib

Intimate partner violence is a barrier to antiretroviral therapy adherence among HIV-positive women: Evidence from government facilities in Kenya.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors: Biomndo Bergmann Lahmann Atwoli

Impact of being an adolescent mother on subsequent maternal health, parenting, and child development in Kenyan low-income and high adversity informal settlement context.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors: Kumar Huang

HIV incidence in a multinational cohort of men and transgender women who have sex with men in sub-Saharan Africa: Findings from HPTN 075.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors: Sandfort Mbilizi Sanders Guo Cummings Hamilton Akelo Panchia Dominguez Stirratt

Prevalence and correlates of metabolic syndrome and its components in adults with psychotic disorders in Eldoret, Kenya.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors: Kwobah Koen Mwangi Atwoli Stein

Reliability and validity of the RS14 in orphaned and separated adolescents and youths in western Kenya.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors: Sutherland Shannon Ayuku Streiner Saarela Atwoli Braitstein

Clustering of health risk behaviors among adolescents in Kilifi, Kenya, a rural Sub-Saharan African setting.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors: Ssewanyana Abubakar Newton Otiende Mochamah Nyundo Walumbe Nyutu Amadi Doyle

Substance use service availability in HIV treatment programs: Data from the global IeDEA consortium, 2014-2015 and 2017.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2020

Authors & Co-authors: Parcesepe Lancaster Edelman DeBoni Ross Atwoli Tlali Althoff Tine Duda

Suicidal behavior risks during adolescent pregnancy in a low-resource setting: A qualitative study.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2020

Authors & Co-authors: Musyimi Mutiso Nyamai Ebuenyi Ndetei

Long-term outcomes of survivors of neonatal insults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2020

Authors & Co-authors: Magai Karyotaki Mutua Chongwo Nasambu Ssewanyana Newton Koot Abubakar

Lessons learned from using respondent-driven sampling (RDS) to assess sexual risk behaviors among Kenyan young adults living in urban slum settlements: A process evaluation.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2020

Authors & Co-authors: Jennings Mayo-Wilson Mathai Yi Mak'anyengo Davoust Massaquoi Baral Ssewamala Glass

Intimate partner violence: A key correlate of women's physical and mental health in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2020

Authors & Co-authors: Winter Obara McMahon

Impact of food insecurity with hunger on mental distress among community-dwelling older adults.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2020

Authors & Co-authors: Gyasi Obeng Yeboah

Implementation of an international standardized set of outcome indicators in pregnancy and childbirth in Kenya: Utilizing mobile technology to collect patient-reported outcomes.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2020

Authors & Co-authors: Al-Shammari Roa Yorlets Akerman Dekker Kelley Koech Mutuku Nyarango Nzorubara

Priority mental, neurological and substance use disorders in rural Kenya: Traditional health practitioners' and primary health care workers' perspectives.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2020

Authors & Co-authors: Bitta Kariuki Gona Abubakar Newton

HIV testing and the HIV care continuum among sub-Saharan African men who have sex with men and transgender women screened for participation in HPTN 075.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2020

Authors & Co-authors: Sandfort Dominguez Kayange Ogendo Panchia Chen Chege Cummings Guo Hamilton

Does a history of sexual and physical childhood abuse contribute to HIV infection risk in adulthood? A study among post-natal women in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2019

Authors & Co-authors: Shamu Shamu Zarowsky Temmerman Shefer Abrahams

High rates of sexual violence by both intimate and non-intimate partners experienced by adolescent girls and young women in Kenya and Zambia: Findings around violence and other negative health outcomes.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2019

Authors & Co-authors: Mathur Okal Musheke Pilgrim Kishor Patel Bhattacharya Jani Matheka Banda Mulenga

Exclusive breastfeeding promotion and neuropsychological outcomes in 5-8 year old children from Uganda and Burkina Faso: Results from the PROMISE EBF cluster randomized trial.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2018

Authors & Co-authors: Tumwine Nankabirwa Diallo Engebretsen Ndeezi Bangirana Sanou Kashala-Abotnes Boivin Giordani

Unconditional government cash transfers in support of orphaned and vulnerable adolescents in western Kenya: Is there an association with psychological wellbeing?

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2017

Authors & Co-authors: Shangani Operario Genberg Kirwa Midoun Atwoli Ayuku Galárraga Braitstein

A mixed methods approach to adapting and evaluating the functional assessment of HIV infection (FAHI), Swahili version, for use with low literacy populations.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2017

Authors & Co-authors: Nyongesa Sigilai Hassan Thoya Odhiambo Van de Vijver Newton Abubakar