Karen Austrian
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1225524 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Karen Austrian |
| PRENOMES | Karen |
| SOBRENOME | Austrian |
| ASSINATURA | AUSTRIAN K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | British Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5464-7908 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
How climate change is shaping young people’s health
INTRODUCTION: Climate change is shaping adolescent and young people's (AYP) transitions to adulthood with significant and often compounding effects on their physical and mental health. The climate crisis is an intergenerational inequity, with the current generation of young people exposed to more climate events over their lifetime than any previous one. Despite this injustice, research and policy to date lacks AYP's perspectives and active engage…
Gendered socio-economic and mental health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic among adults living in selected informal settlements in Kenya
Background COVID-19 pandemic had devastating socio-economic and health effects, including mental health. This study examines the intersectionality between gender and mental health outcomes among Kenyan adults in informal settlements of Nairobi, Kisumu, and Kilifi Counties during the COVID-19 crisis. This is necessary to inform mental health response in case of another pandemic. Methods We analyzed data collected in a longitudinal survey between J…
Long-term impacts of a cash plus program on marriage, fertility, and education after six years in pastoralist Kenya
This study shows the potential for interventions in early adolescence with an education component to delay marriage and fertility into late adolescence and early adulthood in a marginalized and socially conservative setting with low education and high rates of child marriage
Effects of a single cash transfer on school re-enrollment during Covid-19 among vulnerable adolescent girls in Kenya
COVID-19 related school closures in Kenya were among the longest in Africa, putting older adolescent girls nearing the end of secondary school at risk of permanent dropout. Using a randomized-controlled trial we evaluated a logistically simple cash transfer intervention in urban areas designed to promote their return to school. There were no required conditions for receiving the transfer and the intervention is interpreted as a labeled cash trans…
Rainfall shocks, cognitive development and educational attainment among adolescents in a drought-prone region in Kenya
There is growing evidence that early life conditions are important for outcomes during adolescence, including cognitive development and education. Economic conditions at the time children enter school are also important. We examine these relationships for young adolescents living in a low-income drought-prone pastoral setting in Kenya using historical rainfall patterns captured by remote sensing as exogenous shocks. Past rainfall shocks measured …
The development of adolescent agency and implications for reproductive choice among girls in Zambia
Results show agency is dynamic but less mutable with increasing age. Early adolescent strategies which address inequitable gender norms and limit early marriage, may guard against losses to agency which contribute to unwanted fertility outcomes
Assessment of an adolescent-girl-focused nutritional educational intervention within a girls’ empowerment programme
Objective: Adolescent girls are at risk for both macro- and micronutrient deficiencies affecting growth, maternal and child health. This study assessed the impact of an adolescent-girl-tailored nutritional education curriculum on nutritional outcomes, including knowledge, dietary behaviour, anthropometry and anaemia. Design: A cluster-randomised evaluation was conducted with two study arms: girls in mentor-led weekly girls’ groups receiving sexua…
Mobility Patterns During Covid-19 Travel Restrictions in Nairobi Urban Informal Settlements
Nairobi's urban slums are ill equipped to prevent spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) due to high population density, multigenerational families in poorly ventilated informal housing, and poor sanitation. Physical distancing policies, curfews, and a citywide lockdown were implemented in March and April 2020 resulting in sharp decreases in movement across the city. However, most people cannot afford to stay home completely (e.g., le…
The impact of the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (Agep) on short and long term social, economic, education and fertility outcomes
Background Adolescent girls in Zambia face risks and vulnerabilities that challenge their healthy development into young women: early marriage and childbearing, sexual and gender-based violence, unintended pregnancy and HIV. The Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP) was designed to address these challenges by building girls’ social, health and economic assets in the short term and improving sexual behavior, early marriage, pregnancy and edu…
Intra-grade variability in educational and psychosocial competencies of school going adolescent girls, in the coastal region of Kenya
ISRCTN10894523 , date of registration: 22/08/2017. Retrospectively registered
Pre-pandemic Influences on Kenyan Girls’ Transitions to Adulthood during Covid-19
COVID-19 containment measures have left adolescent girls in Nairobi, Kenya vulnerable to negative educational, economic, and secondary health outcomes that threaten their safe transitions into adulthood. In June 2020, the Population Council conducted phone-based surveys with 856 girls aged between 10 and 19 in 5 informal settlements who had been surveyed prior to COVID-19 as part of five longitudinal studies. We performed bivariate and multivaria…
When He Asks for Sex, You Will Never Refuse”
Pregnancy among adolescent girls in Zambia is a significant concern on its own and as a factor in school dropout and early marriage, with one‐third of girls aged 15–19 having experienced pregnancy. Using qualitative and quantitative data from the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program, we explore transactional sex as a driver of adolescent pregnancy. In qualitative interviews, transactional sex was repeatedly discussed as the main driver of pregnan…
Adolescent girls’ primary school mobility and educational outcomes in urban Kenya
With hundreds of primary schools to choose from, young adolescent girls in Nairobi’s urban informal settlements commonly transfer schools. We qualitatively investigate the causes and quantitatively investigate the consequences of such mobility. Key reasons for transferring schools include difficulty in paying fees and anticipated net benefits from a different school. Transferring during lower primary leads to a poorer resourced school, while tran…
Mothers' Education and Girls' Achievement in Kibera
Research evidence has established the importance of mothers' education and their children's educational achievement. However, little has been done to establish the association between mothers' education with girls' literacy and numeracy scores, while linking it with self-efficacy. Using baseline data collected in Kibera informal settlement in 2015 as part of the Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K), this article tests the mother-child educat…
Cluster randomized evaluation of Adolescent Girls Empowerment Programme (Agep)
ISRCTN29322231 . March 04 2016; retrospectively registered
The Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K)
ISRCTN77455458 , December 24, 2015
Barriers and facilitators to health behaviour change and economic activity among slum-dwelling adolescent girls and young women in Nairobi, Kenya
Adolescent girls and young women in urban slum areas in developing countries face a myriad of challenges regarding education, sexual health, livelihoods and gender-based violence. One way of understanding how these challenges interact with each other is through the Asset Building Framework, which posits that girls need a combination of social, health and economic assets in order to make a healthy transition from childhood to adulthood. This study…
Can economic assets increase girls' risk of sexual harassment? Evaluation results from a social, health and economic asset-building intervention for vulnerable adolescent girls in Uganda
When He Asks for Sex, You Will Never Refuse”
Pregnancy among adolescent girls in Zambia is a significant concern on its own and as a factor in school dropout and early marriage, with one‐third of girls aged 15–19 having experienced pregnancy. Using qualitative and quantitative data from the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program, we explore transactional sex as a driver of adolescent pregnancy. In qualitative interviews, transactional sex was repeatedly discussed as the main driver of pregnan…
Can economic assets increase girls' risk of sexual harassment? Evaluation results from a social, health and economic asset-building intervention for vulnerable adolescent girls in Uganda
Mobility Patterns During Covid-19 Travel Restrictions in Nairobi Urban Informal Settlements
Nairobi's urban slums are ill equipped to prevent spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) due to high population density, multigenerational families in poorly ventilated informal housing, and poor sanitation. Physical distancing policies, curfews, and a citywide lockdown were implemented in March and April 2020 resulting in sharp decreases in movement across the city. However, most people cannot afford to stay home completely (e.g., le…
Pre-pandemic Influences on Kenyan Girls’ Transitions to Adulthood during Covid-19
COVID-19 containment measures have left adolescent girls in Nairobi, Kenya vulnerable to negative educational, economic, and secondary health outcomes that threaten their safe transitions into adulthood. In June 2020, the Population Council conducted phone-based surveys with 856 girls aged between 10 and 19 in 5 informal settlements who had been surveyed prior to COVID-19 as part of five longitudinal studies. We performed bivariate and multivaria…
Can economic assets increase girls' risk of sexual harassment? Evaluation results from a social, health and economic asset-building intervention for vulnerable adolescent girls in Uganda
Barriers and facilitators to health behaviour change and economic activity among slum-dwelling adolescent girls and young women in Nairobi, Kenya
Adolescent girls and young women in urban slum areas in developing countries face a myriad of challenges regarding education, sexual health, livelihoods and gender-based violence. One way of understanding how these challenges interact with each other is through the Asset Building Framework, which posits that girls need a combination of social, health and economic assets in order to make a healthy transition from childhood to adulthood. This study…
The Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K)
ISRCTN77455458 , December 24, 2015
Cluster randomized evaluation of Adolescent Girls Empowerment Programme (Agep)
ISRCTN29322231 . March 04 2016; retrospectively registered
Adolescent girls’ primary school mobility and educational outcomes in urban Kenya
With hundreds of primary schools to choose from, young adolescent girls in Nairobi’s urban informal settlements commonly transfer schools. We qualitatively investigate the causes and quantitatively investigate the consequences of such mobility. Key reasons for transferring schools include difficulty in paying fees and anticipated net benefits from a different school. Transferring during lower primary leads to a poorer resourced school, while tran…
Mothers' Education and Girls' Achievement in Kibera
Research evidence has established the importance of mothers' education and their children's educational achievement. However, little has been done to establish the association between mothers' education with girls' literacy and numeracy scores, while linking it with self-efficacy. Using baseline data collected in Kibera informal settlement in 2015 as part of the Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K), this article tests the mother-child educat…
When He Asks for Sex, You Will Never Refuse”
Pregnancy among adolescent girls in Zambia is a significant concern on its own and as a factor in school dropout and early marriage, with one‐third of girls aged 15–19 having experienced pregnancy. Using qualitative and quantitative data from the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program, we explore transactional sex as a driver of adolescent pregnancy. In qualitative interviews, transactional sex was repeatedly discussed as the main driver of pregnan…
The impact of the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (Agep) on short and long term social, economic, education and fertility outcomes
Background Adolescent girls in Zambia face risks and vulnerabilities that challenge their healthy development into young women: early marriage and childbearing, sexual and gender-based violence, unintended pregnancy and HIV. The Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP) was designed to address these challenges by building girls’ social, health and economic assets in the short term and improving sexual behavior, early marriage, pregnancy and edu…
Intra-grade variability in educational and psychosocial competencies of school going adolescent girls, in the coastal region of Kenya
ISRCTN10894523 , date of registration: 22/08/2017. Retrospectively registered
Pre-pandemic Influences on Kenyan Girls’ Transitions to Adulthood during Covid-19
COVID-19 containment measures have left adolescent girls in Nairobi, Kenya vulnerable to negative educational, economic, and secondary health outcomes that threaten their safe transitions into adulthood. In June 2020, the Population Council conducted phone-based surveys with 856 girls aged between 10 and 19 in 5 informal settlements who had been surveyed prior to COVID-19 as part of five longitudinal studies. We performed bivariate and multivaria…
Rainfall shocks, cognitive development and educational attainment among adolescents in a drought-prone region in Kenya
There is growing evidence that early life conditions are important for outcomes during adolescence, including cognitive development and education. Economic conditions at the time children enter school are also important. We examine these relationships for young adolescents living in a low-income drought-prone pastoral setting in Kenya using historical rainfall patterns captured by remote sensing as exogenous shocks. Past rainfall shocks measured …
The development of adolescent agency and implications for reproductive choice among girls in Zambia
Results show agency is dynamic but less mutable with increasing age. Early adolescent strategies which address inequitable gender norms and limit early marriage, may guard against losses to agency which contribute to unwanted fertility outcomes
Assessment of an adolescent-girl-focused nutritional educational intervention within a girls’ empowerment programme
Objective: Adolescent girls are at risk for both macro- and micronutrient deficiencies affecting growth, maternal and child health. This study assessed the impact of an adolescent-girl-tailored nutritional education curriculum on nutritional outcomes, including knowledge, dietary behaviour, anthropometry and anaemia. Design: A cluster-randomised evaluation was conducted with two study arms: girls in mentor-led weekly girls’ groups receiving sexua…
Mobility Patterns During Covid-19 Travel Restrictions in Nairobi Urban Informal Settlements
Nairobi's urban slums are ill equipped to prevent spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) due to high population density, multigenerational families in poorly ventilated informal housing, and poor sanitation. Physical distancing policies, curfews, and a citywide lockdown were implemented in March and April 2020 resulting in sharp decreases in movement across the city. However, most people cannot afford to stay home completely (e.g., le…
Effects of a single cash transfer on school re-enrollment during Covid-19 among vulnerable adolescent girls in Kenya
COVID-19 related school closures in Kenya were among the longest in Africa, putting older adolescent girls nearing the end of secondary school at risk of permanent dropout. Using a randomized-controlled trial we evaluated a logistically simple cash transfer intervention in urban areas designed to promote their return to school. There were no required conditions for receiving the transfer and the intervention is interpreted as a labeled cash trans…
Gendered socio-economic and mental health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic among adults living in selected informal settlements in Kenya
Background COVID-19 pandemic had devastating socio-economic and health effects, including mental health. This study examines the intersectionality between gender and mental health outcomes among Kenyan adults in informal settlements of Nairobi, Kisumu, and Kilifi Counties during the COVID-19 crisis. This is necessary to inform mental health response in case of another pandemic. Methods We analyzed data collected in a longitudinal survey between J…
Long-term impacts of a cash plus program on marriage, fertility, and education after six years in pastoralist Kenya
This study shows the potential for interventions in early adolescence with an education component to delay marriage and fertility into late adolescence and early adulthood in a marginalized and socially conservative setting with low education and high rates of child marriage
How climate change is shaping young people’s health
INTRODUCTION: Climate change is shaping adolescent and young people's (AYP) transitions to adulthood with significant and often compounding effects on their physical and mental health. The climate crisis is an intergenerational inequity, with the current generation of young people exposed to more climate events over their lifetime than any previous one. Despite this injustice, research and policy to date lacks AYP's perspectives and active engage…
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