Monica H Swahn
Biographic Data
| ID | 154181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica H Swahn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica H |
| FAMILY NAME | Swahn |
| SIGNATURE | SWAHN M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6663-3885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Illegal Drug Use, Sleep, and Mental Health Amongst Young Women Living in the Slums of Kampala
Toward integrating clinical and non-clinical associates of suicidality to inform potential intervention points among youth in Nairobi metropolitan, Kenya
Suicide is a significant global public health concern, particularly among adolescents, with substantial implications for economies, societies and individuals' mental well-being. Understanding its patterns and intention and psychosocial determinants in a given context can suggest potential intervention points. This population-based cross-sectional study aimed to document suicidal ideas, behaviors and intensity among youths aged 14 to 25 in the Nai…
Using the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale to Assess Suicidality Among Young Women in the Urban Slums of Kampala Uganda
The purpose of this study was to use the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) to assess the prevalence and patterns of suicidality among young women living in poverty to guide effective, targeted interventions for vulnerable populations. Data were drawn from 'The Onward Project On Wellbeing and Adversity' (TOPOWA) study, a prospective cohort examining mental health in the context of social determinants of young women aged 18 to 24 year…
Compliance and craft
In 2015, the West African archipelago country of Cabo Verde enacted rules governing the production of grogue, a place-based sugarcane spirit primarily produced on the islands of Santiago and Santo Antão. This “grogue law” not only (re)defined the alcohol but established how grogue should be made and marketed according to food safety, environmental, and public health standards. These regulations include 11 labeling parameters required on the liquo…
Alcohol marketing as a commercial determinant of health
Alcohol marketing, as a commercial determinant of health, presents an emerging threat to global health and is of particular importance in low-resource settings. This study is composed of data from ‘The Onward Project On Wellbeing and Adversity’ (TOPOWA) project, a multicomponent prospective cohort study examining the mechanistic pathways of adverse mental health conditions among women aged 18 to 24 years living in the Kampala slums in Uganda. The…
Using the Adapt guidance to culturally adapt a brief intervention to reduce alcohol use among injury patients in Tanzania
Harmful alcohol use is a leading risk factor for injury-related death and disability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Brief negotiational interventions (BNIs) in emergency departments (EDs) effectively reduce alcohol intake and re-injury rates. However, most BNIs are developed in high-income countries, with limited evidence of their effectiveness in LMICs. To address this gap, we culturally adapted a BNI for alcohol-related injury pat…
Self-Reported Mental Health Benefits and Impacts of Vocational Skills Training in a Low-Resource Setting
Vocational training can lead to higher employment rates and improved incomes, particularly for young women in low-resource settings like Kampala's slums. Despite these benefits, further research is needed to understand the full impact and mechanisms of vocational training on youth in low-resource environments. In 2022, a focus group project, part of a larger study, involved 60 women aged 18 to 24, recruited from three Youth Support Centers operat…
Rethinking Urbanicity
Urbanicity is a recognized determinant of mental health, yet conventional measures such as population density or the rural-urban divide often fail to capture the complex realities of informal settlements in low- and middle-income countries. This paper conceptualizes neighborhood effects through the lived experiences of young women in Kampala, Uganda, drawing on participatory research from the NIH-funded TOPOWA study. Using community mapping and P…
Modern Contraceptive Use Among Young Women in Kampala Slums
Unintended pregnancies among adolescent and young women in low- and middle-income countries pose major public health challenges, underscoring the need for improved access to modern contraceptives. This study examined prevalence, preferences, and correlates of modern contraceptive use among young women living in urban slums of Kampala, Uganda, to inform targeted interventions. We analyzed baseline data from The Onward Project On Wellbeing and Adve…
Prevalence and comorbidity of mental health concerns, alcohol and drug use among young women in the urban slums of Kampala, Uganda
Young women in Kampala’s urban slums face a growing public health crisis as mental health issues and substance use escalate, fueled by poverty, violence, and limited access to care. These overlapping challenges significantly heighten the risks of suicide, premature mortality, and diminished quality of life. This study investigates the prevalence of mental health concerns, substance use, and their co-occurrence among this vulnerable population in …
Applying the Research Domain Criteria to Social Determinants of Community Mental Health in Low-Resource Settings
There is increasing recognition of the importance of integrating social determinants of mental health (SDoMH) into research frameworks to better understand how socioeconomic and environmental stressors shape mental health outcomes, particularly in low-resource settings. This paper presents an innovative conceptual approach that combines the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) with a social determinants lens to explore the pathways linking social adve…
Wearable technology and daily diaries for studying mental health
Wearable technology and daily diaries offer insights into everyday behaviors that can further health research and treatment globally. However, the use of these methodologies outside of high-income settings has been limited. We conducted two pilot studies that enrolled 60 young women in the urban slums of Kampala, Uganda to understand design considerations associated with using wearable technology and daily diaries in this context. Each participan…
Feasibility, Challenges and Lessons Learned
Photovoice is an established, qualitative participatory method for visualizing and deconstructing complex topics and research questions. We used Photovoice as a research methodology for understanding the proximal and social environmental stressors and their role in mental health equity and outcomes among young women residing in three urban slums in Kampala, Uganda. The Photovoice methodology was selected to encourage active participation and refl…
Sex differences in alcohol use patterns and related harms
In northern Tanzania, alcohol use disorders (AUD) are under-diagnosed and under-treated, and current services are mostly limited to men in clinical settings despite significant alcohol-related harm in the community. The study objective was to identify sex differences in alcohol use and alcohol-related harms within and across community and clinical settings. This was a congruent triangulation mixed methods study consisting of focus group discussio…
Life Satisfaction Factors, Stress, and Depressive Symptoms among Young Women Living in Urban Kampala
Young women living in Kampala, Uganda, often face adversities related to Social Determinants of Mental Health (SDoMH) including poverty, food scarcity, environmental stressors such as high levels of community violence, and lack of adequate healthcare access. Two consecutive pilot studies were conducted to assess the feasibility and acceptability of survey questions, wearable fitness trackers, and daily diaries before launching a larger prospectiv…
Alcohol Use among Young Women in Kampala City
This study sought to determine the level of concordance between self-reported alcohol use and the presence of its urinary ethyl glucuronide (EtG) metabolite in women living in urban Kampala. In 2023, we recruited 300 young women, ages 18 to 24 years, to participate in a prospective cohort study across three sites in urban Kampala (i.e., Banda, Bwaise, and Makindye) to examine the mechanistic pathways of mental illness. As part of the baseline ass…
Demographic disparities in the limited awareness of alcohol use as a breast cancer risk factor
Overall, only a quarter of U.S. women were aware that alcohol use increases breast cancer risk, although 40% expressed uncertainty. Differences in awareness by age, level of education, race and ethnicity and level of alcohol use offer opportunities for tailored prevention interventions, while the overall low level of awareness calls for widespread efforts to increase awareness of the breast cancer risk from alcohol use among U.S. women
Contested values of grogue in Cabo Verde
This article explores grogue, a sugarcane-based distilled spirit of Cabo Verde, and its multifaceted and contested valuations in culture, livelihoods, and well-being. Despite Cabo Verde's challenging climate, sugarcane agriculture remains significant primarily due to the importance placed on the local production of grogue. The study described in this article investigates how grogue is perceived and valued among Cabo Verdeans, questioning why it p…
Developing an alcohol harm prevention research agenda in West Africa
Research on alcohol use and its associated harm is scarce in West Africa. To mitigate the knowledge gap and to build momentum for future research, we determined research priorities for alcohol prevention among stakeholders across nine countries in West Africa. We analyzed a cross-sectional survey conducted in the fall of 2020, distributed by the West African Alcohol Policy Alliance (WAAPA). Respondents represented members of the WAAPA, members of…
Acceptability of Primary Care Counseling and Brief Educational Messages to Increase Awareness about Alcohol and Breast Cancer Risks among Bisexual and Lesbian Women
This research had two aims: (1) to assess how often bisexual and lesbian women self-report screening and counseling for alcohol use in primary care settings; and (2) understand how bisexual and lesbian women respond to brief messages that alcohol increases breast cancer risk. The study sample consisted of 4891 adult U.S. women who responded to an online, cross-sectional Qualtrics survey in September-October 2021. The survey included the Alcohol U…
Heavy drinking and problem drinking among youth in Uganda
A Qualitative Assessment of Place and Mental Health
This paper examines the link between place and mental health using a qualitative assessment and focus group discussion with young women, ages 18 to 24 years of age, residing in three slums in Kampala, Uganda. The assessment, conducted in August of 2022, engaged 15 women who participated in Uganda Youth Development Drop-in center activities. The objective was to assess mental health and the link between place and mental health. Facilitated group d…
A Comparative Analysis of Gender Discrepancy Stress, Attitudes toward Intimate Partner Violence, and Perpetration among Young Adults in the USA and Uganda
Overall, IPV perpetration was significantly higher for U.S. males compared with Ugandan males. These findings indicate that cultural adaptations to global IPV interventions may be necessary to respond to differing needs in different countries
Sexual Victimization, Self-Efficacy to Refuse Sex While Drinking, and Regretting Alcohol-Involved Sex among Underserved Youth in Kampala, Uganda
The purposes of this study were to determine whether youth who have experienced sexual victimization (SV) have lower self-efficacy to refuse sex and to identify intervention strategies for rape survivors to mitigate further health-risks and harm. Cross-sectional data from the 2014 Kampala Youth Survey ( n = 1134) of youth aged 12 to 18 years recruited from Uganda Youth Development Link drop-in centers were used to conduct the analyses. Multivaria…
Preventing Alcohol-Related Harm in East Africa
Our results demonstrate substantial variability in the readiness to address alcohol-related harm across East Africa. The highest capacity was noted for knowledge towards alcohol prevention, institutional links, and legislative mandates and policies. However, important gaps were noted in terms of attitudes towards alcohol prevention, the will to address the problem, as well as material, human, and informal resources, which need to be urgently addr…
Differences in Frequency of Violence and Reported Injury Between Relationships With Reciprocal and Nonreciprocal Intimate Partner Violence
Objectives. We sought to examine the prevalence of reciprocal (i.e., perpetrated by both partners) and nonreciprocal intimate partner violence and to determine whether reciprocity is related to violence frequency and injury. Methods. We analyzed data on young US adults aged 18 to 28 years from the 2001 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which contained information about partner violence and injury reported by 11 370 respondents on …
Concordance Between Self-Reported Maltreatment and Court Records of Abuse or Neglect Among High-Risk Youths
Objectives. We examined the concordance between measures of self-reported maltreatment and court records of abuse or neglect in a sample of detained youths. Methods. Data were collected by the Northwestern Juvenile Project and include interviews from 1829 youths aged 10–18 years. Participants were newly detained youths in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Illinois between 1995 and 1998. Self-reported cases of child maltreatme…
Conflict, Displacement, and IPV
This study describes the prevalence and correlates of past-year intimate partner violence (IPV) among displaced women. We used bivariate and multivariate analyses to assess the relationships between IPV and select variables of interest. Multivariate logistic regression modeling revealed that women who had experienced outsider violence were 11 times as likely (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 11.21; confidence interval, CI [5.25, 23.96]) to have report…
The Associations Between Victimization, Feeling Unsafe, and Asthma Episodes Among US High-School Students
We examined the associations between victimization, missed school because of feeling unsafe, and asthma episodes among US high-school students using the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Cross-sectional analyses on adolescents with asthma (n=1943) showed that any victimization and missed school because of feeling unsafe significantly increased the odds of having an asthma episode in the past year (adjusted odds ratio [OR]=1.45; 95% confidence inte…
Attitudes about Violence and Involvement in Peer Violence among Youth
Girls and Young Women Living in the Slums of Kampala
This study determined the prevalence and correlates of victimization among girls and young women in Kampala. The study population, a convenience sample of youth living in the slums, were 14 to 24 years of age, and participants in community-based drop-in centers ( N = 313). Overall, the prevalence of physical fights (37%), being threatened or injured with a weapon (28%), and being raped (30%) was high and increased with age. Multivariate analyses …
Feasibility, Challenges and Lessons Learned
Photovoice is an established, qualitative participatory method for visualizing and deconstructing complex topics and research questions. We used Photovoice as a research methodology for understanding the proximal and social environmental stressors and their role in mental health equity and outcomes among young women residing in three urban slums in Kampala, Uganda. The Photovoice methodology was selected to encourage active participation and refl…
Contested values of grogue in Cabo Verde
This article explores grogue, a sugarcane-based distilled spirit of Cabo Verde, and its multifaceted and contested valuations in culture, livelihoods, and well-being. Despite Cabo Verde's challenging climate, sugarcane agriculture remains significant primarily due to the importance placed on the local production of grogue. The study described in this article investigates how grogue is perceived and valued among Cabo Verdeans, questioning why it p…
Psychosocial health concerns among service-seeking orphans in the slums of Kampala
Orphans have many unmet needs. The purpose of the current study is to briefly examine the psychosocial correlates linked to being an orphan among service-seeking youth in the slums of Kampala in order to provide guidance for service provision for youth. The current analysis is based on a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2011 which consisted of a convenience sample of youth living in the slums (ages 14-24) attending a drop-in center, Uganda You…
Co-occurring suicide attempts and physical fighting
This study examines the prevalence and correlates of co-occurring suicidal behavior (i.e., attempted suicide) and violent behavior (i.e., involved in a physical fight) in a nationally representative sample of high school students. Analyses were based on cross-sectional data from the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), which includes a nationally representative sample (n = 15,214) of high school students in 9th through 12th grade in the United…
Wearable technology and daily diaries for studying mental health
Wearable technology and daily diaries offer insights into everyday behaviors that can further health research and treatment globally. However, the use of these methodologies outside of high-income settings has been limited. We conducted two pilot studies that enrolled 60 young women in the urban slums of Kampala, Uganda to understand design considerations associated with using wearable technology and daily diaries in this context. Each participan…
Associations of lifetime prevalence of homelessness with risky sex, sexual victimization, depressive symptoms, and suicidality among youth in Kampala, Uganda
Homelessness poses serious health risks, and those risks may be exacerbated among slum-dwelling youth in the developing world. We administered a cross-sectional survey to youth receiving services from a community organization in Kampala, Uganda. This secondary analysis explores the relationships between homelessness and various health outcomes. We also explored possible moderating relationships between neighborhood support, homelessness, and heal…
Risky behaviors of youth living in the slums of Kampala
Obtaining formal education is associated with a decreased risk of HIV transmission among youth in sub-Saharan Africa. However, little is known about the role vocational skills training programs may have on risk behaviors linked to HIV transmission among vulnerable youth in sub-Saharan Africa. This study examined the characteristics and risk behaviors among vulnerable youth who receive vocational skills training by a community-based organization. …
The Associations between Area of Residence, Sexual Violence Victimization, and Asthma Episodes among US Adult Women in 14 States and Territories, 2005–2007
Whitaker Et Al. Respond
Two central points made by Reed are: (1) female perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) is not a public health concern and (2) there is no framework for understanding female-to-male IPV. Our perspective is that IPV is an important public health problem regardless of perpetrator and victim gender and that IPV can be addressed within a public health framework. It is indisputable that women are more affected by male IPV perpetration than are…
The Associations Between Victimization, Feeling Unsafe, and Asthma Episodes Among US High-School Students
We examined the associations between victimization, missed school because of feeling unsafe, and asthma episodes among US high-school students using the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Cross-sectional analyses on adolescents with asthma (n=1943) showed that any victimization and missed school because of feeling unsafe significantly increased the odds of having an asthma episode in the past year (adjusted odds ratio [OR]=1.45; 95% confidence inte…
Concordance Between Self-Reported Maltreatment and Court Records of Abuse or Neglect Among High-Risk Youths
Objectives. We examined the concordance between measures of self-reported maltreatment and court records of abuse or neglect in a sample of detained youths. Methods. Data were collected by the Northwestern Juvenile Project and include interviews from 1829 youths aged 10–18 years. Participants were newly detained youths in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Illinois between 1995 and 1998. Self-reported cases of child maltreatme…
Differences in Frequency of Violence and Reported Injury Between Relationships With Reciprocal and Nonreciprocal Intimate Partner Violence
Objectives. We sought to examine the prevalence of reciprocal (i.e., perpetrated by both partners) and nonreciprocal intimate partner violence and to determine whether reciprocity is related to violence frequency and injury. Methods. We analyzed data on young US adults aged 18 to 28 years from the 2001 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which contained information about partner violence and injury reported by 11 370 respondents on …
The Associations between Area of Residence, Sexual Violence Victimization, and Asthma Episodes among US Adult Women in 14 States and Territories, 2005–2007
Whitaker Et Al. Respond
Two central points made by Reed are: (1) female perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) is not a public health concern and (2) there is no framework for understanding female-to-male IPV. Our perspective is that IPV is an important public health problem regardless of perpetrator and victim gender and that IPV can be addressed within a public health framework. It is indisputable that women are more affected by male IPV perpetration than are…
Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Levels of Urinary Metals in the U.S. Youth and Adult Population
We assessed 12 urine metals in tobacco smoke-exposed and not exposed National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey participants. Our analysis included age, race/ethnicity, and poverty status. Gender and racial/ethnic differences in cadmium and lead and creatinine-adjusted and unadjusted data for group comparisons are presented. Smokers' had higher cadmium, lead, antimony, and barium levels than nonsmokers. Highest lead levels were in the young…
Urban girls and boys who date
This study examined the associations between alcohol use, drug use, self-harm, suicide attempts and dating using logistic regression analyses. Data were obtained from the Youth Violence Survey, conducted in 2004, and administered to all public school students enrolled in grades 7, 9, 11 and 12 (n= 4,131; 52.2% girls and 47.8% boys) in a high-risk school district. Adolescents who reported any alcohol or drug use and any self-harm were more likely …
Co-occurring suicide attempts and physical fighting
This study examines the prevalence and correlates of co-occurring suicidal behavior (i.e., attempted suicide) and violent behavior (i.e., involved in a physical fight) in a nationally representative sample of high school students. Analyses were based on cross-sectional data from the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), which includes a nationally representative sample (n = 15,214) of high school students in 9th through 12th grade in the United…
Attitudes about Violence and Involvement in Peer Violence among Youth
Self-Harm and Suicide Attempts among High-Risk, Urban Youth in the U.S
The extent to which self-harm and suicidal behavior overlap in community samples of vulnerable youth is not well known. Secondary analyses were conducted of the "linkages study" (N = 4,131), a cross-sectional survey of students enrolled in grades 7, 9, 11/12 in a high-risk community in the U.S. in 2004. Analyses were conducted to determine the risk and protective factors (i.e., academic grades, binge drinking, illicit drug use, weapon carrying, c…
Correlates of Suicide Ideation and Attempt among Youth Living in the Slums of Kampala
While suicidal behavior is recognized as a growing public health problem world-wide, little is known about the prevalence and risk factors for suicidal behaviors among street and slum youth in Africa, and in Uganda, specifically. The number of youth who live on the streets and in the slums of Kampala appears to be growing rapidly, but their mental health needs have not been documented, which has hampered resource allocation and service implementa…
Extracurricular activity involvement is associated with adolescent suicidality through school belongingness
Adolescent sports participants report lower rates of suicidality compared with sports nonparticipants. Few studies have investigated whether this pattern holds for involvement in other types of extracurricular activities, in younger samples, or the mechanisms of these associations. This study investigated the mediating role of school belongingness on the association between types of extracurricular activities and suicidality in developmental age …
Risk factors for multiple forms of violent experiences
There is a growing body of empirical research indicating a significant co-occurrence of multiple forms of experiences with violence among US youth. However, very little information is available about shared risk factors across forms of violence. Current analyses were based on cross-sectional data from the 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). The YRBS includes a nationally representative sample (n = 16,410) of high-school students in 9–12th gra…
Cross-National Perspectives on Early Adolescence
The current special issue brings together intriguing and important cross-country comparisons of issues pertinent to early adolescence that can inform the design and implementation of broader and relevant public health prevention strategies. The findings illustrate the importance of cross-country analyses for better understanding a range of health-related factors, including risk behaviors, mental health concerns, life satisfaction, and parent–chil…
Psychosocial predictors and outcomes of loneliness trajectories from childhood to early adolescence ☆
Using latent class growth analysis, we were interested in investigating how experiences of loneliness emerge in distinct developmental patterns over the course of middle childhood and adolescence (NICHD Study of Early Child Care, N = 832). Second, we examined the role of demographic, mental health, and behavioral variables in association with these discrete patterns of loneliness. Loneliness was measured at 3 time points: age 9, age 11, and age 1…
Alcohol marketing and drunkenness among students in the Philippines
There are significant associations between alcohol marketing exposure and increased alcohol use and drunkenness among youth in the Philippines. These findings highlight the need to put policies into effect that restrict alcohol marketing practices as an important prevention strategy for reducing alcohol use and its dire consequences among vulnerable youth
Conflict, Displacement, and IPV
This study describes the prevalence and correlates of past-year intimate partner violence (IPV) among displaced women. We used bivariate and multivariate analyses to assess the relationships between IPV and select variables of interest. Multivariate logistic regression modeling revealed that women who had experienced outsider violence were 11 times as likely (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 11.21; confidence interval, CI [5.25, 23.96]) to have report…
Girls and Young Women Living in the Slums of Kampala
This study determined the prevalence and correlates of victimization among girls and young women in Kampala. The study population, a convenience sample of youth living in the slums, were 14 to 24 years of age, and participants in community-based drop-in centers ( N = 313). Overall, the prevalence of physical fights (37%), being threatened or injured with a weapon (28%), and being raped (30%) was high and increased with age. Multivariate analyses …
Alcohol-Related Physical Abuse of Children in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda
This study examines the patterns of alcohol-related physical abuse and alcohol use and related behaviors among children living in the slums of Kampala, Uganda. The study is based on a cross-sectional survey, conducted in spring 2014, of service-seeking children ages 12 to 18 years ( n = 1134) attending Uganda Youth Development Link drop-in centers for vulnerable children in the slums. Descriptive statistics, chi-squares, and bivariate and multiva…
Psychosocial health concerns among service-seeking orphans in the slums of Kampala
Orphans have many unmet needs. The purpose of the current study is to briefly examine the psychosocial correlates linked to being an orphan among service-seeking youth in the slums of Kampala in order to provide guidance for service provision for youth. The current analysis is based on a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2011 which consisted of a convenience sample of youth living in the slums (ages 14-24) attending a drop-in center, Uganda You…
Problem Drinking, Alcohol-Related Violence, and Homelessness among Youth Living in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda
This paper examines problem drinking, alcohol-related violence, and homelessness among youth living in the slums of Kampala—an understudied population at high-risk for both alcohol use and violence. This study is based on a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2014 with youth living in the slums and streets of Kampala, Uganda ( n = 1134), who were attending Uganda Youth Development Link drop-in centers. The analyses for this paper were restricted …
Suicidal Ideation among Youth Living in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda
The purpose of this study is to examine the factors associated with suicidal ideation among youth living in the slums of Kampala, Uganda. Analyses are based on cross-sectional survey data, collected in 2014, of a convenience sample ( n = 1134) of urban service-seeking youth participating in a Uganda Youth Development Link drop-in center. Logistic regression analyses were computed to determine the psychosocial factors associated with suicidal idea…
The impact of alcohol among injury patients in Moshi, Tanzania
At KCMC in Moshi, Tanzania, 3 of 10 injury patients tested positive for alcohol on presentation for care. Similarly, alcohol use conveys an increased risk for injury in this setting. Evidence-based prevention strategies for alcohol-related injuries need to be implemented to reduce alcohol misuse and alcohol-related injuries
Risky behaviors of youth living in the slums of Kampala
Obtaining formal education is associated with a decreased risk of HIV transmission among youth in sub-Saharan Africa. However, little is known about the role vocational skills training programs may have on risk behaviors linked to HIV transmission among vulnerable youth in sub-Saharan Africa. This study examined the characteristics and risk behaviors among vulnerable youth who receive vocational skills training by a community-based organization. …
Psychosocial correlates of self-reported HIV among youth in the slums of Kampala
Youth living in the slums of Kampala, Uganda have a high prevalence of HIV. These youth are in dire need of interventions which address both alcohol use behaviors and sexual risk behaviors to reduce further complications of their existing health conditions, including HIV
Medicine (51 works) · Environmental health (44 works) · Psychology (31 works) · Poison control (26 works) · Psychiatry (25 works) · Demography (22 works) · Injury prevention (20 works) · Suicide prevention (20 works) · Mental health (16 works) · Demography (15 works)