Elizabeth Lowenthal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5515607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Lowenthal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowenthal |
| SIGNATURE | LOWENTHAL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sustained mental health impacts of Covid-19 among people living with and without HIV in the Dominican Republic
Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are clearly documented, particularly in marginalized populations, but longer-term impacts are unknown. This study explored the sustained mental health of the COVID-19 pandemic among people living with HIV (PLHIV) and people without HIV receiving care at a primary care center in La Romana, Dominican Republic from November 2021 to February 2022. Using stratified random sampling, we recruited PLHIV and …
A qualitative assessment of barriers to iron and folic acid supplementation among pregnant women in Botswana
Our study identified a need to 1) increase the availability of supplementation at antenatal clinics and 2) improve education regarding supplementation to include information about the benefits of folic acid and other micronutrients. Implementation research is needed to ascertain whether increasing supply and improving education could increase utilization of supplementation during pregnancy, with the ultimate goal of improving maternal and infant …
Reaching “covidianidad”
We aimed to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the lives of healthcare workers (HCWs) in the Dominican Republic. We also aimed to identify the types of resources that HCWs felt were needed to support their mental health. We used purposive and convenience sampling in four health centers in the eastern Dominican Republic to recruit 28 HCWs (doctors, nurses, psychologists, and community health workers) between April 2021 and August 2021. Thr…
Principles for delivery of youth lay counsellor programs
There is accumulating evidence that lay counsellors can effectively provide structured, evidence-based counselling interventions to improve mental health outcomes [1–4]. Lay counsellors help alleviate overburdened health systems that have limited numbers of mental health professionals through ‘task-shifting,’ a process of referring straightforward, or common mental health illness to lay workers who have received counselling training [...]
Building a Community Based Mental Health Program for Adolescents in Botswana
Distinctive barriers to antiretroviral therapy adherence among non-adherent adolescents living with HIV in Botswana
Levels of adherence to HIV treatment are lower among adolescents compared with older and younger individuals receiving similar therapies. We purposely sampled the most and least adherent adolescents from a 300-adolescent longitudinal HIV treatment adherence study in Gaborone, Botswana. Multiple objective and subjective measures of adherence were available and study participants were selected based on sustained patterns of either excellent or poor…
Factors associated with self-reported adherence among adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Zimbabwe
Nonadherence to medication is the key obstacle to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment success. The group at highest risk of nonadherence is adolescents, but relatively little is known about risk factors for and protective factors against poor adherence in this age group. We undertook a cross-sectional study of 262 HIV-infected adolescents aged 10-19 years on antiretroviral therapy at two clinics in Harare, Zimbabwe, to investigate person…
Rapid psychosocial function screening test identified treatment failure in HIV+ African youth
Psychosocial dysfunction in older children and adolescents is common and may lead to nonadherence to HIV treatments. Poor adherence leads to HIV treatment failure and the development of resistant virus. In resource-limited settings where treatment options are typically limited to only one or two available lines of therapy, identification of individuals at highest risk of failure before failure occurs is of critical importance. Rapid screening too…
Rapid psychosocial function screening test identified treatment failure in HIV+ African youth
Psychosocial dysfunction in older children and adolescents is common and may lead to nonadherence to HIV treatments. Poor adherence leads to HIV treatment failure and the development of resistant virus. In resource-limited settings where treatment options are typically limited to only one or two available lines of therapy, identification of individuals at highest risk of failure before failure occurs is of critical importance. Rapid screening too…
Factors associated with self-reported adherence among adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Zimbabwe
Nonadherence to medication is the key obstacle to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment success. The group at highest risk of nonadherence is adolescents, but relatively little is known about risk factors for and protective factors against poor adherence in this age group. We undertook a cross-sectional study of 262 HIV-infected adolescents aged 10-19 years on antiretroviral therapy at two clinics in Harare, Zimbabwe, to investigate person…
Distinctive barriers to antiretroviral therapy adherence among non-adherent adolescents living with HIV in Botswana
Levels of adherence to HIV treatment are lower among adolescents compared with older and younger individuals receiving similar therapies. We purposely sampled the most and least adherent adolescents from a 300-adolescent longitudinal HIV treatment adherence study in Gaborone, Botswana. Multiple objective and subjective measures of adherence were available and study participants were selected based on sustained patterns of either excellent or poor…
Building a Community Based Mental Health Program for Adolescents in Botswana
Principles for delivery of youth lay counsellor programs
There is accumulating evidence that lay counsellors can effectively provide structured, evidence-based counselling interventions to improve mental health outcomes [1–4]. Lay counsellors help alleviate overburdened health systems that have limited numbers of mental health professionals through ‘task-shifting,’ a process of referring straightforward, or common mental health illness to lay workers who have received counselling training [...]
Reaching “covidianidad”
We aimed to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the lives of healthcare workers (HCWs) in the Dominican Republic. We also aimed to identify the types of resources that HCWs felt were needed to support their mental health. We used purposive and convenience sampling in four health centers in the eastern Dominican Republic to recruit 28 HCWs (doctors, nurses, psychologists, and community health workers) between April 2021 and August 2021. Thr…
A qualitative assessment of barriers to iron and folic acid supplementation among pregnant women in Botswana
Our study identified a need to 1) increase the availability of supplementation at antenatal clinics and 2) improve education regarding supplementation to include information about the benefits of folic acid and other micronutrients. Implementation research is needed to ascertain whether increasing supply and improving education could increase utilization of supplementation during pregnancy, with the ultimate goal of improving maternal and infant …
Sustained mental health impacts of Covid-19 among people living with and without HIV in the Dominican Republic
Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are clearly documented, particularly in marginalized populations, but longer-term impacts are unknown. This study explored the sustained mental health of the COVID-19 pandemic among people living with HIV (PLHIV) and people without HIV receiving care at a primary care center in La Romana, Dominican Republic from November 2021 to February 2022. Using stratified random sampling, we recruited PLHIV and …
Medicine (7 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Family medicine (4 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (4 works) · Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare (3 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (3 works) · Mental health (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works) · Biostatistics (2 works)