A W Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 56373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A W Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | A W |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0148-7565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Psychosocial stress, adult suicidal ideation, and the mediating effect of poor sleep quality during the Covid ‐19 pandemic in South Africa
OBJECTIVES: South Africa instituted one of the world's strictest lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, which generated heightened conditions of psychosocial stress and posed widespread mental health risks. Despite the elevated burdens of suicidal behaviors and risk of psychiatric disease in the country, few studies have examined the impacts of psychosocial stress from the pandemic on suicidal ideation in South Africa. This study examined the as…
Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid
BACKGROUND: South Africa's rates of psychiatric morbidity are among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa and are foregrounded by the country's long history of political violence during apartheid. Growing evidence suggests that in utero stress exposure is a potent developmental risk factor for future mental illness risk, yet the extent to which the psychiatric effects of prenatal stress impact the next generation are unknown. We evaluate the intergen…
Coping mechanisms during the Covid ‐19 pandemic and lockdown in metropolitan Johannesburg, South Africa
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused prolonged stress on numerous fronts. While the acute health impacts of psychosocial stress due to the pandemic are well-documented, less is known about the resources and mechanisms utilized to cope in response to stresses during the pandemic and lockdown. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify and describe the coping mechanisms adults utilized in response to the stressors of the COVID-19 pand…
Perceptions and experiences of prostate cancer patients in a public tertiary hospital in urban South Africa
Prostate cancer is among the most prevalent forms of cancer worldwide and is reported to have the highest incidence, mortality, and 5-year prevalence rate of all cancers among men living in Africa. Despite this widespread burden in the African continent, little is known about the perspectives and experience of prostate cancer among African men. To further understand experiences among patients living in urban South Africa, we conducted in-depth, s…
Caregiver preferences for physically harsh discipline of children in rural Uganda
The high prevalence of physically harsh discipline preferences warrant interventions aimed at reframing caregivers' approaches to discipline
Parental incarceration and child physical health outcomes from infancy to adulthood
Adverse childhood experiences and adult cardiometabolic risk factors and disease outcomes
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) pose a major threat to public health in sub-Saharan African communities, where the burden of these classes of illnesses is expected to double by 2030. Growing research suggests that past developmental experiences and early life conditions may also elevate CVD risk throughout the life course. Greater childhood stress and adversity are consistently associated with a range of adult CVDs and associated risk f…
Thinking Too Much”
A mixed-methods, population-based study of a syndemic in Soweto, South Africa
Development and validation of the Soweto Stress Scale
Promoting mental health in community and research settings during Covid ‐19
American Journal of Human BiologyVolume 32, Issue 5 e23509 COMMENTARY Promoting mental health in community and research settings during COVID-19: Perspectives and experiences from Soweto, South Africa Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Corresponding Author Andrew Wooyoung Kim [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-0148-7565 Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA Faculty of Health Sciences, SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways …
Synergies between the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease framework and multiple branches of evolutionary anthropology
The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis derives from the epidemiological and basic/mechanistic health sciences. This well‐supported hypothesis holds that environment during the earliest stages of life—pre‐conception, pregnancy, infancy—shapes developmental trajectories and ultimately health outcomes across the lifespan. Evolutionary anthropologists from multiple subdisciplines are embracing synergies between the DOHaD f…
Early life stress and HPA axis function independently predict adult depressive symptoms in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines
OBJECTIVES: Alterations in adult hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity have increasingly been linked with early life stress and adult depression, but a limited number of studies have used longitudinal data to explore HPA axis dysregulation as an underlying mechanism driving the long-term depressive impacts of early stressors. Here we address potential long-term impacts of early life, family-based stress on depressive symptoms among y…
How to Fail a Scale
Cancer, chemotherapy, and HIV
Idioms of resilience among cancer patients in urban South Africa
Despite the large body of research on idioms of distress in anthropology and transcultural psychiatry, few scholars have examined the concepts that people use to describe social and psychological resilience. The experience of social and psychological resilience is embedded in and shaped by social, political, and economic contexts-much like the factors that shape idioms of distress. As resilience literature more broadly has adopted a socio-ecologi…
Idioms of resilience among cancer patients in urban South Africa
Despite the large body of research on idioms of distress in anthropology and transcultural psychiatry, few scholars have examined the concepts that people use to describe social and psychological resilience. The experience of social and psychological resilience is embedded in and shaped by social, political, and economic contexts-much like the factors that shape idioms of distress. As resilience literature more broadly has adopted a socio-ecologi…
Cancer, chemotherapy, and HIV
Early life stress and HPA axis function independently predict adult depressive symptoms in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines
OBJECTIVES: Alterations in adult hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity have increasingly been linked with early life stress and adult depression, but a limited number of studies have used longitudinal data to explore HPA axis dysregulation as an underlying mechanism driving the long-term depressive impacts of early stressors. Here we address potential long-term impacts of early life, family-based stress on depressive symptoms among y…
Caregiver preferences for physically harsh discipline of children in rural Uganda
The high prevalence of physically harsh discipline preferences warrant interventions aimed at reframing caregivers' approaches to discipline
A mixed-methods, population-based study of a syndemic in Soweto, South Africa
Development and validation of the Soweto Stress Scale
Perceptions and experiences of prostate cancer patients in a public tertiary hospital in urban South Africa
Prostate cancer is among the most prevalent forms of cancer worldwide and is reported to have the highest incidence, mortality, and 5-year prevalence rate of all cancers among men living in Africa. Despite this widespread burden in the African continent, little is known about the perspectives and experience of prostate cancer among African men. To further understand experiences among patients living in urban South Africa, we conducted in-depth, s…
How to Fail a Scale
Cancer, chemotherapy, and HIV
Idioms of resilience among cancer patients in urban South Africa
Despite the large body of research on idioms of distress in anthropology and transcultural psychiatry, few scholars have examined the concepts that people use to describe social and psychological resilience. The experience of social and psychological resilience is embedded in and shaped by social, political, and economic contexts-much like the factors that shape idioms of distress. As resilience literature more broadly has adopted a socio-ecologi…
Promoting mental health in community and research settings during Covid ‐19
American Journal of Human BiologyVolume 32, Issue 5 e23509 COMMENTARY Promoting mental health in community and research settings during COVID-19: Perspectives and experiences from Soweto, South Africa Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Corresponding Author Andrew Wooyoung Kim [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-0148-7565 Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA Faculty of Health Sciences, SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways …
Synergies between the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease framework and multiple branches of evolutionary anthropology
The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis derives from the epidemiological and basic/mechanistic health sciences. This well‐supported hypothesis holds that environment during the earliest stages of life—pre‐conception, pregnancy, infancy—shapes developmental trajectories and ultimately health outcomes across the lifespan. Evolutionary anthropologists from multiple subdisciplines are embracing synergies between the DOHaD f…
Early life stress and HPA axis function independently predict adult depressive symptoms in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines
OBJECTIVES: Alterations in adult hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity have increasingly been linked with early life stress and adult depression, but a limited number of studies have used longitudinal data to explore HPA axis dysregulation as an underlying mechanism driving the long-term depressive impacts of early stressors. Here we address potential long-term impacts of early life, family-based stress on depressive symptoms among y…
Adverse childhood experiences and adult cardiometabolic risk factors and disease outcomes
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) pose a major threat to public health in sub-Saharan African communities, where the burden of these classes of illnesses is expected to double by 2030. Growing research suggests that past developmental experiences and early life conditions may also elevate CVD risk throughout the life course. Greater childhood stress and adversity are consistently associated with a range of adult CVDs and associated risk f…
Thinking Too Much”
A mixed-methods, population-based study of a syndemic in Soweto, South Africa
Development and validation of the Soweto Stress Scale
Parental incarceration and child physical health outcomes from infancy to adulthood
Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid
BACKGROUND: South Africa's rates of psychiatric morbidity are among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa and are foregrounded by the country's long history of political violence during apartheid. Growing evidence suggests that in utero stress exposure is a potent developmental risk factor for future mental illness risk, yet the extent to which the psychiatric effects of prenatal stress impact the next generation are unknown. We evaluate the intergen…
Coping mechanisms during the Covid ‐19 pandemic and lockdown in metropolitan Johannesburg, South Africa
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused prolonged stress on numerous fronts. While the acute health impacts of psychosocial stress due to the pandemic are well-documented, less is known about the resources and mechanisms utilized to cope in response to stresses during the pandemic and lockdown. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify and describe the coping mechanisms adults utilized in response to the stressors of the COVID-19 pand…
Perceptions and experiences of prostate cancer patients in a public tertiary hospital in urban South Africa
Prostate cancer is among the most prevalent forms of cancer worldwide and is reported to have the highest incidence, mortality, and 5-year prevalence rate of all cancers among men living in Africa. Despite this widespread burden in the African continent, little is known about the perspectives and experience of prostate cancer among African men. To further understand experiences among patients living in urban South Africa, we conducted in-depth, s…
Caregiver preferences for physically harsh discipline of children in rural Uganda
The high prevalence of physically harsh discipline preferences warrant interventions aimed at reframing caregivers' approaches to discipline
Psychosocial stress, adult suicidal ideation, and the mediating effect of poor sleep quality during the Covid ‐19 pandemic in South Africa
OBJECTIVES: South Africa instituted one of the world's strictest lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, which generated heightened conditions of psychosocial stress and posed widespread mental health risks. Despite the elevated burdens of suicidal behaviors and risk of psychiatric disease in the country, few studies have examined the impacts of psychosocial stress from the pandemic on suicidal ideation in South Africa. This study examined the as…
Medicine (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Public health (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works)