Understanding psychophysiological responses to walking in urban settings in Asia and Africa

Neale, Chris; Boukhechba, Mehdi; Cinderby, Steven

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.101973

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“…Mental health conditions were infrequently studied (n = 7) in the article set. These studies evaluated the impacts of extreme weather events and climate shocks on economic status, mental wellbeing, and psychological distress [68][69][70][71].…”

Section: Mental Health Conditionsmentioning

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Climate-Sensitive Health Outcomes in Kenya: A Scoping Review of Environmental Exposures and Health Outcomes Research, 2000 – 2023

Gerard,

Kibaara,

Blom

et al. 2024

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Climate change threatens health and social development gains in Kenya, necessitating health policy planning for risk reduction and mitigation. To understand the baseline state of knowledge of environmental determinants of health in Kenya relevant to climate change, a comprehensive scoping review was undertaken. Compliant with a pre-registered protocol, nine bibliographic databases and grey literature sources were searched for articles published from 2000-2023. Two-stage screening was conducted on 17,394 articles; 635 full-texts were screened in duplicate. A final 353 articles underwent data extraction for topic categorisation, bibliometric analysis, and narrative summary. This was comprised of 344 (97%) journal articles, 59% of which were published after 2014 (n=207). Main study designs included observational (n=211) and modelling studies (n=64). Health topics centred on vector-borne diseases (41%, n=147), primarily vector abundance (n=102) and malaria (n=60), while injury or death (n=10), mental health conditions (n=7) and heat exposure (n=7) studies were less frequent. Environmental health research in Kenya is largely conducted in the Lake Victoria Basin, Rift Valley and Coastal regions, with fewer studies from the northern arid and semi-arid regions. Findings of this review suggest a growing and diverse field of predominantly observational research with an increasing focus on social determinants and policy-relevant themes, however research on vector-borne disease dwarfs other health outcomes and sparsely populated but climatically fragile regions are less represented in published literature. Addressing existing gaps in baseline evidence underpinning associations between the environment and health outcomes will benefit climate change attribution research and support future development of evidence-informed climate change and health policy in Kenya.

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Section: Mental Health Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate-Sensitive Health Outcomes in Kenya: A Scoping Review of Environmental Exposures and Health Outcomes Research, 2000 – 2023

Gerard,

Kibaara,

Blom

et al. 2024

Preprint

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“…Wearable activity trackers (WATs) have emerged as powerful tools for health research in recent years, enabling the collection of high-resolution data on physical activity, sleep, and other health markers and behaviors (Ryan et al, 2019; Cho et al, 2020; Lewis et al, 2020; Semaan et al, 2020; Zahrt et al, 2023). While most research using these devices with youth has been conducted in high-income countries (HICs; Casado-Robles et al, 2022), there is growing interest in using them to study health in the global south (Barteit et al, 2021; Neale et al, 2023).…”

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Using wearable activity trackers for research in the global south: Lessons learned from adolescent psychotherapy research in Kenya

Johnson,

Venturo-Conerly,

Rusch

2023

Camb. prisms Glob. ment. health

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Wearable activity trackers have emerged as valuable tools for health research, providing high-resolution data on measures such as physical activity. While most research on these devices has been conducted in high-income countries, there is growing interest in their use in the global south. This perspective discusses the challenges faced and strategies employed when using wearable activity trackers to test the effects of a school-based intervention for depression and anxiety among Kenyan youth. Lessons learned include the importance of validating data output, establishing an internal procedure for international procurement, providing on-site support for participants, designating a full-time team member for wearable activity tracker operation, and issuing a paper-based information sheet to participants. The insights shared in this perspective serve as guidance for researchers undertaking studies with wearables in similar settings, contributing to the evidence base for mental health interventions targeting youth in the global south. Despite the challenges to set up, deploy and extract data from wearable activity trackers, we believe that wearables are a relatively economical approach to provide insight into the daily lives of research participants, and recommend their use to other researchers.

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Decoding green food safety information dependency in the digital era: An intelligent validation using SEM-ANN framework

Zhao,

Shi,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

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Understanding psychophysiological responses to walking in urban settings in Asia and Africa

Cited by 4 publications

References 57 publications

Climate-Sensitive Health Outcomes in Kenya: A Scoping Review of Environmental Exposures and Health Outcomes Research, 2000 – 2023

Climate-Sensitive Health Outcomes in Kenya: A Scoping Review of Environmental Exposures and Health Outcomes Research, 2000 – 2023

Using wearable activity trackers for research in the global south: Lessons learned from adolescent psychotherapy research in Kenya

Decoding green food safety information dependency in the digital era: An intelligent validation using SEM-ANN framework

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