Lukoye Atwoli

Biographic Data

ID1785268
NAMELukoye Atwoli
GIVEN NAMESLukoye
FAMILY NAMEAtwoli
SIGNATUREATWOLI L
AFFILIATIONSMoi University
ORCID0000-0001-7710-9723
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Patterns and predictors of the transition between minimally adequate treatment and effective treatment coverage for mental disorders

    Open AccessAlan E Kazdin, Kazdin Ae et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Mental…2026

    BACKGROUND: The quality of mental disorder treatment varies widely, with many patients not receiving treatments based on evidence-based guidelines. We examine data from the World Mental Health (WMH) surveys to investigate prevalence and correlates of receiving effective treatment coverage (ETC) among patients receiving minimally adequate treatment (MAT) in the 12 months before interview. METHODS: Data come from 25 WMH surveys carried out in 21 co…

  • Social relationships, mental health, and stigma

    Open AccessSarah Obatsa, Adel Mburia-Mwalili et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    The disclosure of one’s HIV-positive status is a personal decision that can play an important role in engagement in HIV treatment and care. Social network approaches situate individuals within broader webs of social connections that influence health and wellbeing and thus hold the potential to elucidate key social factors shaping the process of disclosure. As part of a larger clinical study examining how substance use and mental health shape HIV …

  • African solutions for African medical education

    Open AccessAbebe Bekele, Kara L Neil et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX Africa’s health education systems face a significant demand due to carrying 25% of the global disease burden and only 4% of the health workforce

  • The relationship between lifetime trauma exposure and psychosis in a multi-country case-control study in Africa

    Open AccessAnne Stevenson, Misra et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2025

    Background: Exposure to traumatic events is a known risk factor for psychosis. Additionally, psychosis may be a risk factor for exposure to traumatic events. There are little data on the relationship between traumatic events and psychosis in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in large, cross-country samples using the same instrument. Methods: In a case-control study, 21,606 adults were recruited with psychosis (cases) and 21,329 adults without any …

  • Drought, worry, and preparing for the future

    Open AccessE N Bosire, Syed Shabab Wahid et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2025

    The impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) presents a chronic and intensifying disaster, with drought, flooding, and extreme heat, presenting unique challenges and profound disruptions. Growing evidence links such events to ecological grief, ecological anxiety, and solastalgia – negative affective states that reflects responses to climate change related destruction of nature, species, culturally significant or sacred spaces, and ot…

  • Cross-cultural equivalence of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) across four African countries in a multi-national study of adults

    Open AccessAmantia Ametaj, Christy A Denckla et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2024

    The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) has been widely used to screen psychological distress across many countries. However, its performance has not been extensively studied in Africa. The present study sought to evaluate and compare measurement properties of the K10 across four African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa. Our hypothesis is that the measure will show equivalence across all. Data are drawn from a neuropsyc…

  • A scoping review of substance use brief interventions in Africa

    Open AccessFlorence Jaguga, Sarah Kanana Kiburi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Background The burden of substance use in Africa is substantial. Brief interventions (BIs) are a recommended public health strategy for the prevention and early intervention for substance use problems. The objective of this scoping review was to map the literature on substance use BIs in Africa, identify gaps, and provide directions for future research. Methods The scoping review was guided by the Arksey O’Malley Framework and the PRISMA-Scoping …

  • Adaptation of the Client Diagnostic Questionnaire for East Africa

    Open AccessEdith Kamaru Kwobah, Suzanne Goodrich et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Research increasingly involves cross-cultural work with non-English-speaking populations, necessitating translation and cultural validation of research tools. This paper describes the process of translating and criterion validation of the Client Diagnostic Questionnaire (CDQ) for use in a multisite study in Kenya and Uganda. The English CDQ was translated into Swahili, Dholuo (Kenya) and Runyankole/Rukiga (Uganda) by expert translators. The trans…

  • Resilience and associated factors in orphaned and separated adolescents in Kenya

    Open AccessSarah C Sutherland, Harry S Shannon et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2024

    Orphans are at higher risk of HIV infection and several important HIV risk factors than non-orphans; however, this may be due to a combination of related social, psychological, and economic factors, as well as care environment, rather than orphan status alone. Understanding these complex relationships may aid policy makers in supporting evidence-based, cost-effective programming for this vulnerable population. This longitudinal study uses a causa…

  • Association between psychosis and substance use in Kenya. Findings from the NeuroGAP-Psychosis study

    Open AccessMonica Nguata, James Orwa et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    The findings of this study suggest that psychotic illnesses are associated with an increased likelihood of using various substances. These findings are consistent with those of previous studies; however, it is crucial to investigate further the potential for reverse causality between psychosis and substance abuse using genetically informed methods

  • Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders

    Open AccessJohn J Mcgrath, Ali Al-Hamzawi et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Psychiatry2023

    BACKGROUND: Information on the frequency and timing of mental disorder onsets across the lifespan is of fundamental importance for public health planning. Broad, cross-national estimates of this information from coordinated general population surveys were last updated in 2007. We aimed to provide updated and improved estimates of age-of-onset distributions, lifetime prevalence, and morbid risk. METHODS: In this cross-national analysis, we analyse…

  • Social support and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic among a cohort of people living with HIV (PLWH) in Western Kenya

    Open AccessAdel Mburia-Mwalili, K D Wagner et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    As coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic in 2020, countries around the world implemented various prevention strategies, such as banning of public and social gatherings, restriction in movement, etc. These efforts may have had a deleterious effect on already vulnerable populations, including people living with HIV (PLWH). PLWH were concerned about contracting COVID-19, the impact of COVID-19 on their social networks that provide s…

  • Medical education and population health—A framework in the design of a new undergraduate program

    Open AccessR Warwick Armstrong, Robert W Armstrong et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Health sciences curricular planners are challenged to add new content to established education programs. There is increasing pressure for content in public health, health systems, global health, and planetary health. These important areas often compete for curricular time. What is needed is a convergence model that builds a common framework within which students can integrate areas and better align this knowledge to the individual client or patie…

  • COP27 Climate Change Conference

    Open AccessLukoye Atwoli, Gregory E Erhabor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Wealthy nations must step up support for Africa and vulnerable countries in addressing past, present and future impacts of climate change The 2022 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a dark picture of the future of life on earth, characterised by ecosystem collapse, species extinction, and climate hazards such as heatwaves [...]

  • COP27 Climate Change Conference

    Open AccessLukoye Atwoli, Gregory E Erhabor et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2022

  • COP27 Climate Change Conference—Urgent Action Needed for Africa and the World

    Open AccessLukoye Atwoli, Gregory E Erhabor et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2022

    Wealthy nations must step up support for Africa and vulnerable countries in addressing past, present, and future impacts of climate change

  • Harmful Alcohol Use Among Healthcare Workers at the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Kenya

    Open AccessFlorence Jaguga, Edith Kamaru Kwobah et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    A high proportion of healthcare workers reported harmful alcohol use at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya. Males, the unmarried, those with 11-20 years of experience in the health field, doctors and specialists, were more likely to report harmful alcohol use. These findings highlight the need to institute interventions for harmful alcohol use targeting these groups of healthcare workers in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic in order…

  • Effect of care environment on educational attainment among orphaned and separated children and adolescents in Western Kenya

    Open AccessDorothy Apedaile, Allison DeLong et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Children living in institutional environments were more likely to complete primary school and some secondary school than children living in family-based care. Further support is needed for all orphans to improve primary and secondary school completion. Policies that require orphans to leave institution environments upon their eighteenth birthday may be preventing these youth from completing secondary school

  • Conférence COP27 sur le changement climatique

    Open AccessLukoye Atwoli, Gregory E Erhabor et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2022

  • Conferencia sobre Cambio Climático COP27

    Open AccessLukoye Atwoli, Gregory E Erhabor et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2022

  • Conferência sobre Mudança do Clima COP27

    Open AccessLukoye Atwoli, Gregory E Erhabor et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2022

  • COP27 Climate Change Conference

    Open AccessLukoye Atwoli, Gregory E Erhabor et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2022

  • The relationships between resilience, care environment, and social-psychological factors in orphaned and separated adolescents in Western Kenya

    Open AccessSarah C Sutherland, Harry S Shannon et al.ARTICLEVulnerable Children and Youth…2022References: 3

    The relationships between care environment, resilience, and social factors in orphaned and separated adolescents and youths (OSAY) in western Kenya are complex and under-studied. This study examines these relationships through the analysis of survey responses from OSAY living in Charitable Children's Institutes (CCI) and family-based care settings (FBS) in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. The associations between 1) care environment and resilience (mea…

  • COP27 Climate Change Conference

    Open AccessLukoye Atwoli, Gregory E Erhabor et al.ARTICLE2022References: 3

  • The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement

    Open AccessStephen V Faraone, Tobias Banaschewski et al.ARTICLENeuroscience & Biobehavioral…2021

    BACKGROUND: Misconceptions about ADHD stigmatize affected people, reduce credibility of providers, and prevent/delay treatment. To challenge misconceptions, we curated findings with strong evidence base. METHODS: We reviewed studies with more than 2000 participants or meta-analyses from five or more studies or 2000 or more participants. We excluded meta-analyses that did not assess publication bias, except for meta-analyses of prevalence. For net…