Kathryn Beck

Datos Biográficos

ID3798342
NOMBREKathryn Beck
NOMBRESKathryn
APELLIDOBeck
FIRMABECK K
AFILIACIONESUSAID Advancing Nutrition
ORCID0000-0001-7407-9418
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2010
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Breastfeeding counselling mentorship programme feasibility

    Open AccessBrian Micino Njoroge, Sascha Lamstein et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2025

    Objectives: To determine the feasibility of implementing a facility-based breastfeeding counselling (BFC) mentorship programme and its effect on mentee confidence and client perceptions of BFC. Setting: Mbagathi County Referral Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Participants: Health facility management, health workers (twenty-one mentees and seven mentors), 120 pregnant women in the third trimester who attended an antenatal care (ANC) appointment at Mba…

  • A qualitative exploration of cultural illness perceptions and barriers to modern healthcare

    Open AccessSadallah Bahizi, Michael Schriver et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology and…2025Referencias: 39

  • Promoting responsive care and early learning practices among caregivers of children 0–23 months in the Kyrgyz Republic

    Open AccessLesley Oot, Veronica Varela et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2024

    Objective: To assess changes in caregiver practices for young children after integrating the Responsive Care and Early Learning (RCEL) Addendum package into nutrition services after 10 months of implementation. Design: We measured changes in RCEL practices through a pre- and post-intervention assessment comprising a household survey and observations. To implement the intervention, we trained health service staff and community volunteers to delive…

  • Promoting responsive care and early learning practices in Northern Ghana

    Open AccessEnam Aidam, Veronica Varela et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2024

    Objective: This study assesses change in caregiver practices after integrating responsive care and early learning (RCEL) in nutrition and health services and community platforms in northern Ghana. Design: We trained health facility workers and community health volunteers to deliver RCEL counselling to caregivers of children under 2 years of age through existing health facilities and community groups. We assessed changes in caregivers’ RCEL practi…

  • Symmetries of an online culture

    Kathryn Beck, Kathryn L Beck et al.ARTICLESymmetry: Culture and Science2021

  • Evaluation of an mHealth tool to improve nutritional assessment among infants under 6 months in paediatric development clinics in rural Rwanda

    Open AccessMathieu Nemerimana, Angelique Charlie Karambizi et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Infants born preterm, low birthweight or with other perinatal complications require frequent and accurate growth monitoring for optimal nutrition and growth. We implemented an mHealth tool to improve growth monitoring and nutritional status assessment of high risk infants. We conducted a pre-post quasi-experimental study with a concurrent control group among infants enrolled in paediatric development clinics in two rural Rwandan districts. During…

  • Nutritional evaluation and growth of infants in a Rwandan neonatal follow‐up clinic

    Open AccessJessica Bradford, Kathryn Beck et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2020

    Children born preterm, low birth weight (LBW) or with other perinatal risk factors are at high-risk of malnutrition. Regular growth monitoring and early intervention are essential to promote optimal feeding and growth; however, monitoring growth in preterm infants can be complex. This study evaluated growth monitoring of infants under 6 months enrolled in Paediatric Development Clinics (PDCs) in rural Rwanda. We reviewed electronic medical record…

  • Risk factors for stunting among children under five years

    Open AccessAlphonse Nshimyiryo, Ziad El-Khatib et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Family-level factors are major drivers of children's growth stunting in Rwanda. Interventions to improve the nutrition of pregnant and lactating women so as to prevent low birth weight babies, reduce poverty, promote girls' education and intervene early in cases of malnutrition are needed

  • Experience

    Open AccessKathryn Beck, Angelique Mukantaganda et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2018

    In low-resource settings, inpatient case fatality for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) remains high despite evidenced-based protocols and resources to treat SAM. Key reasons include a combination of insufficiently trained staff, poor teamwork and inadequate compliance to WHO treatment guidelines which are proven to reduce mortality. Checklists have been used in surgery and obstetrics to ameliorate similarly complicated yet repetitive work processe…

  • The effect of gold kiwifruit consumed with an iron fortified breakfast cereal meal on iron status in women with low iron stores

    Open AccessKathryn Beck, Kathryn L Beck et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    ACTRN12608000360314