The impact of school support on depression among adolescent orphans: a cluster‐randomized trial in Kenya

Green, Eric; Cho, Hyunsan; Gallis, John A.

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“…Likewise, Simmons-Zuilkowski [ 105 ] found that in South Africa enrollment rates among the very poor are lower because of cost of uniforms. In Kenya, Mutengi [ 106 ] found a statistically significant link between uniform cost and education access, and Green et al [ 107 ], Sitieni and Pillay [ 108 ] and Cho et al [ 109 ] describe free uniform as part of support and incentive packages for at-risk children to attend school [ 110 ]. In Ghana, Alagbela [ 111 ] and Akaguri [ 112 ] show that uniform cost creates a barrier to education for the very poor.…”

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Reviewing School Uniform through a Public Health Lens: Evidence about the Impacts of School Uniform on Education and Health

Reidy

2021

Public Health Rev

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This study uses a public health lens to review evidence about the impacts of wearing a school uniform on students’ health and educational outcomes. It also reviews the underlying rationales for school uniform use, exploring historical reasons for uniform use, as well as how questions of equity, human rights, and the status of children as a vulnerable group are played out in debates over school uniforms. The literature identified indicates that uniforms have no direct impact on academic performance, yet directly impact physical and psychological health. Girls, ethnic and religious minorities, gender-diverse students and poorer students suffer harm disproportionately from poorly designed uniform policies and garments that do not suit their physical and socio-cultural needs. Paradoxically, for some students, uniform creates a barrier to education that it was originally instituted to remedy. The article shows that public health offers a new perspective on and contribution to debates and rationales for school uniform use. This review lays out the research landscape on school uniform and highlights areas for further research.

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“…Paradoxically, uniforms can worsen inequity. Worldwide, for the very poorest students, the cost of a uniform may be prohibitive, creating a barrier to education before the students even arrive on school grounds [ 83 , 105 – 107 , 109 – 112 , 114 – 116 , 137 ]. For some students the disadvantages will be cumulative.…”

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Reviewing School Uniform through a Public Health Lens: Evidence about the Impacts of School Uniform on Education and Health

Reidy

2021

Public Health Rev

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“…The two previous procedures are in essence, Linear Mixed-Effects Models. Recently, Anaya & Al-Delaimy 2017 [68] and Green et al 2019 [69] did implement multilevel modeling for longitudinal data using linear mixed-effects models with R software [70] using the lme4 package.…”

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“…Additionally, the hierarchical linear model in [78] and the multilevel modeling of longitudinal data in [79] were fitted using SPSS (MIXED) and SAS (PROC MIXED) procedures respectively. On the other hand, Green et al 2019 [69] used linear mixed-effect models with R software [70] by means of lme4 package, to fit multilevel models with random intercepts for schools and random intercepts and random slopes for time at the individual level since students are nested within waves.…”

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Metropolitan age-specific mortality trends at borough and neighborhood level: The case of Mexico City

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Understanding the spatial and temporal patterns of mortality rates in a highly heterogeneous metropolis, is a matter of public policy interest. In this context, there is no, to the best of our knowledge, previous studies that correlate both spatio-temporal and age-specific mortality rates in Mexico City. Spatio-temporal Kriging modeling was used over five age-specific mortality rates (from the years 2000 to 2016 in Mexico City), to gain both spatial (borough and neighborhood) and temporal (year and trimester) data level description. Mortality age-specific patterns have been modeled using multilevel modeling for longitudinal data. Posterior tests were carried out to compare mortality averages between geo-spatial locations. Mortality correlation extends in all study groups for as long as 12 years and as far as 13.27 km. The highest mortality rate takes place in the Cuauhtémoc borough, the commercial, touristic and cultural core downtown of Mexico City. On the contrary, Tlalpan borough is the one with the lowest mortality rates in all the study groups. Post-productive mortality is the first age-specific cause of death, followed by infant, productive, pre-school and scholar groups. The combinations of spatio-temporal Kriging estimation and time-evolution linear mixed-effect models, allowed us to unveil relevant time and location trends that may be useful for public policy planning in Mexico City.

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“…Green, Cho, Gallis, and Puffer () shift gear from observation to experiment. They report data from a powerful randomised controlled trial (with longitudinal follow‐ups over 4 years) of the value of practical support for school attendance as a driver of mental health resilience in Kenyan adolescents.…”

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Editorial: ‘It's a family affair’ – the social drivers of child and adolescent resilience

Sonuga‐Barke¹

2018

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Studies of risk and vulnerability processes may provide important ways of identifying new treatment targets – based on the principle that mending something is much easier if you know in what way it is broken. However, in our field, knowing its source may not always tell us about how to remediate impairment. Studies focusing on resilience may be more informative from this perspective. In this editorial I discuss four papers that highlight the value of resilience studies from a translational perspective – in particular contrasting the strengths and limitations of observational and experimental designs.

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The impact of school support on depression among adolescent orphans: a cluster‐randomized trial in Kenya

Abstract: School support for orphans may help to buffer against the onset or worsening of depression symptoms over time, promoting resilience among an important at-risk population.

Cited by 21 publications

References 39 publications

Reviewing School Uniform through a Public Health Lens: Evidence about the Impacts of School Uniform on Education and Health

Reviewing School Uniform through a Public Health Lens: Evidence about the Impacts of School Uniform on Education and Health

Metropolitan age-specific mortality trends at borough and neighborhood level: The case of Mexico City

Editorial: ‘It's a family affair’ – the social drivers of child and adolescent resilience

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