Abednego Musau
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 129284 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Abednego Musau |
| PRENOMES | Abednego |
| SOBRENOME | Musau |
| ASSINATURA | MUSAU A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Africa Mental Health Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5979-1191 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Results from a maternal, newborn and child health program targeting pregnant, married adolescent girls in northern Nigeria
Adolescent pregnancy is a significant public health concern in Nigeria where adolescent girls (15–19 years) face high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality compared to older women. Interventions that address the unique needs of pregnant adolescents in the Nigerian context are critical to improve pregnancy-related health outcomes. This paper presents results from a longitudinal quasi-experimental study evaluating the effectiveness of a materna…
Adolescent Girls' Agency in an Integrated Sexual and Reproductive Health and Economic Empowerment Intervention Pilot
INTRODUCTION: Adolescence is a time of unique vulnerability for many girls, however, when supported to strengthen their capabilities, resources, and agency, adolescents can thrive even in adverse situations. This study sought to evaluate agency outcomes (decision-making power, mobility, and self-efficacy) among girls aged 15-19 participating in integrated sexual and reproductive health and economic empowerment interventions in Ethiopia and Nigeri…
Person‐Centered Measurement
Despite growing enthusiasm for measurement approaches that capture individuals’ needs, values, and preferences, there remains a lack of conceptual clarity regarding person‐centered measurement in the global field of contraception. In this commentary, we propose a working definition of person‐centered measurement within the contraceptive field and describe how this definition can be applied to existing and novel contraceptive indicators. We argue …
Preference-aligned fertility management among married adolescent girls in Northern Nigeria
INTRODUCTION: Universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare-including family planning (FP)-is a global priority, yet there is no standard outcome measure to evaluate rights-based FP programme performance at the regional, national or global levels. METHODS: We collected a modified version of preference-aligned fertility management (PFM), a newly proposed rights-based FP outcome measure which we operationalised as concordance between an in…
Implementing and Sustaining Brief Addiction Medicine Interventions with the Support of a Quality Improvement Blended-eLearning Course
Quality improvement methods could assist in achieving needed health systems improvements to address mental health and substance use, especially in low-middle-income countries (LMICs). Online learning is a promising avenue to deliver quality improvement training. This Computer-based Drug and Alcohol Training Assessment in Kenya (eDATA-K) study assessed users' experience and outcome of a blended-eLearning quality improvement course and collaborativ…
Blended-eLearning Improves Alcohol Use Care in Kenya
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11469-022-00841-x
Blended-eLearning Impact on Health Worker Stigma Toward Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Psychoactive Substance Users
This study evaluated factors affecting the completion of blended-eLearning courses for health workers and their effect on stigma. The two courses covered the screening and management of harmful alcohol, tobacco, and other substance consumption in a lower-middle-income country setting. The courses included reading, self-reflection exercises, and skills practice on communication and stigma. The Anti-Stigma Intervention-Stigma Evaluation Survey was …
Reducing Khat use among Somalis living in Kenya
Background During recent decades, the consumption of the stimulant khat ( catha edulis ) has profoundly changed in countries around the Horn of Africa, and excessive use patterns have emerged—especially evident among displaced Somalis. This is related to the development of severe somatic and psychiatric disorders. There are currently no preventive or interventional studies targeting khat use. This study’s aim was to test screening and brief inter…
Increased condom use among key populations using oral PrEP in Kenya
Condom use increased substantially among both FSW and MSM. This may be because oral PrEP was provided as part of a combination prevention strategy that included counseling and condoms but could also be due to the low retention rates among those who initiated
What drives distress? Rethinking the roles of emotion and diagnosis among people with diabetes in Nairobi, Kenya
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a condition that both results from and produces social and psychological suffering. As 'diabetes' increases among low income patients in poorer nations, new challenges arise that drive, co-occur, and result from the condition. In this article, we describe how social suffering produces diabetes by way of addressing the varied social, psychological, and biological factors that drive diabetes and are reflected in diabetes…
Towards Understanding the Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors and Ego Resilience Among Primary School Children in a Kenyan Setting
Intrigues of Accessing Mental Health Services Among Urban Refugees Living in Kenya
This article explores the perceived mental-health-care access barriers affecting the resettled refugee population in Eastleigh, Kenya. Findings suggest that the main barriers to accessing mental health care are cultural and religious beliefs, inadequate health services, culture-insensitive mental health services, poverty, language barriers, stigma, and discrimination. This study recommends that it is important to integrate Somalis' indigenous met…
Stigma-related mental health knowledge and attitudes among primary health workers and community health volunteers in rural Kenya
BACKGROUND: The study was conducted in rural Kenya and assessed stigma in health workers from primary health facilities. AIMS: This study compared variations in stigma-related mental health knowledge and attitudes between primary health workers (HWs) and community health volunteers (CHVs). METHODS: Participants ( n = 44 HWs and n = 60 CHVs) completed the self-report Mental Health Knowledge Schedule and the Reported and Intended Behavior Scale, al…
Factors Influencing Lay and Professional Health Workers’ Self-efficacy in Identification and Intervention for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Substance Use Disorders in Kenya
Prevalence and determinants of depression among patients under the care of traditional health practitioners in a Kenyan setting
In Kenya, there is paucity of information on depression among traditional health practitioner (THP) patients, particularly in rural areas. The aim of this study was to estimate prevalence and identify determinants of major depressive disorder (MDD) among patients of THP in rural Kenya using the World Health Organization (WHO) Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guideline (mhGAP-IG). All adult patients seeking care from trained THPs (e…
Nurses’ perceptions of mental healthcare in primary-care settings in Kenya
Kenya maintains an extraordinary treatment gap for mental health services because the need for and availability of mental health services are extraordinarily misaligned. One way to narrow the treatment gap is task-sharing, where specialists rationally distribute tasks across the health system, with many responsibilities falling upon frontline health workers, including nurses. Yet, little is known about how nurses perceive task-sharing mental heal…
Substance Use among a Sample of Healthcare Workers in Kenya
This study describes reported substance use among Kenyan healthcare workers (HCWs), as it has implications for HCWs' health, productivity, and their ability and likelihood to intervene on substance use. The Alcohol Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) was administered to a convenience sample of HCWs (n = 206) in 15 health facilities. Reported lifetime use was 35.8% for alcohol, 23.5% for tobacco, 9.3% for cannabis, 9.3% for s…
Stress, diabetes, and infection
Stress, diabetes, and infection
What drives distress? Rethinking the roles of emotion and diagnosis among people with diabetes in Nairobi, Kenya
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a condition that both results from and produces social and psychological suffering. As 'diabetes' increases among low income patients in poorer nations, new challenges arise that drive, co-occur, and result from the condition. In this article, we describe how social suffering produces diabetes by way of addressing the varied social, psychological, and biological factors that drive diabetes and are reflected in diabetes…
Prevalence and determinants of depression among patients under the care of traditional health practitioners in a Kenyan setting
In Kenya, there is paucity of information on depression among traditional health practitioner (THP) patients, particularly in rural areas. The aim of this study was to estimate prevalence and identify determinants of major depressive disorder (MDD) among patients of THP in rural Kenya using the World Health Organization (WHO) Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guideline (mhGAP-IG). All adult patients seeking care from trained THPs (e…
Person‐Centered Measurement
Despite growing enthusiasm for measurement approaches that capture individuals’ needs, values, and preferences, there remains a lack of conceptual clarity regarding person‐centered measurement in the global field of contraception. In this commentary, we propose a working definition of person‐centered measurement within the contraceptive field and describe how this definition can be applied to existing and novel contraceptive indicators. We argue …
Towards Understanding the Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors and Ego Resilience Among Primary School Children in a Kenyan Setting
Stress, diabetes, and infection
Nurses’ perceptions of mental healthcare in primary-care settings in Kenya
Kenya maintains an extraordinary treatment gap for mental health services because the need for and availability of mental health services are extraordinarily misaligned. One way to narrow the treatment gap is task-sharing, where specialists rationally distribute tasks across the health system, with many responsibilities falling upon frontline health workers, including nurses. Yet, little is known about how nurses perceive task-sharing mental heal…
Substance Use among a Sample of Healthcare Workers in Kenya
This study describes reported substance use among Kenyan healthcare workers (HCWs), as it has implications for HCWs' health, productivity, and their ability and likelihood to intervene on substance use. The Alcohol Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) was administered to a convenience sample of HCWs (n = 206) in 15 health facilities. Reported lifetime use was 35.8% for alcohol, 23.5% for tobacco, 9.3% for cannabis, 9.3% for s…
Stigma-related mental health knowledge and attitudes among primary health workers and community health volunteers in rural Kenya
BACKGROUND: The study was conducted in rural Kenya and assessed stigma in health workers from primary health facilities. AIMS: This study compared variations in stigma-related mental health knowledge and attitudes between primary health workers (HWs) and community health volunteers (CHVs). METHODS: Participants ( n = 44 HWs and n = 60 CHVs) completed the self-report Mental Health Knowledge Schedule and the Reported and Intended Behavior Scale, al…
Factors Influencing Lay and Professional Health Workers’ Self-efficacy in Identification and Intervention for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Substance Use Disorders in Kenya
Prevalence and determinants of depression among patients under the care of traditional health practitioners in a Kenyan setting
In Kenya, there is paucity of information on depression among traditional health practitioner (THP) patients, particularly in rural areas. The aim of this study was to estimate prevalence and identify determinants of major depressive disorder (MDD) among patients of THP in rural Kenya using the World Health Organization (WHO) Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guideline (mhGAP-IG). All adult patients seeking care from trained THPs (e…
Towards Understanding the Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors and Ego Resilience Among Primary School Children in a Kenyan Setting
Intrigues of Accessing Mental Health Services Among Urban Refugees Living in Kenya
This article explores the perceived mental-health-care access barriers affecting the resettled refugee population in Eastleigh, Kenya. Findings suggest that the main barriers to accessing mental health care are cultural and religious beliefs, inadequate health services, culture-insensitive mental health services, poverty, language barriers, stigma, and discrimination. This study recommends that it is important to integrate Somalis' indigenous met…
What drives distress? Rethinking the roles of emotion and diagnosis among people with diabetes in Nairobi, Kenya
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a condition that both results from and produces social and psychological suffering. As 'diabetes' increases among low income patients in poorer nations, new challenges arise that drive, co-occur, and result from the condition. In this article, we describe how social suffering produces diabetes by way of addressing the varied social, psychological, and biological factors that drive diabetes and are reflected in diabetes…
Implementing and Sustaining Brief Addiction Medicine Interventions with the Support of a Quality Improvement Blended-eLearning Course
Quality improvement methods could assist in achieving needed health systems improvements to address mental health and substance use, especially in low-middle-income countries (LMICs). Online learning is a promising avenue to deliver quality improvement training. This Computer-based Drug and Alcohol Training Assessment in Kenya (eDATA-K) study assessed users' experience and outcome of a blended-eLearning quality improvement course and collaborativ…
Blended-eLearning Improves Alcohol Use Care in Kenya
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11469-022-00841-x
Blended-eLearning Impact on Health Worker Stigma Toward Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Psychoactive Substance Users
This study evaluated factors affecting the completion of blended-eLearning courses for health workers and their effect on stigma. The two courses covered the screening and management of harmful alcohol, tobacco, and other substance consumption in a lower-middle-income country setting. The courses included reading, self-reflection exercises, and skills practice on communication and stigma. The Anti-Stigma Intervention-Stigma Evaluation Survey was …
Reducing Khat use among Somalis living in Kenya
Background During recent decades, the consumption of the stimulant khat ( catha edulis ) has profoundly changed in countries around the Horn of Africa, and excessive use patterns have emerged—especially evident among displaced Somalis. This is related to the development of severe somatic and psychiatric disorders. There are currently no preventive or interventional studies targeting khat use. This study’s aim was to test screening and brief inter…
Increased condom use among key populations using oral PrEP in Kenya
Condom use increased substantially among both FSW and MSM. This may be because oral PrEP was provided as part of a combination prevention strategy that included counseling and condoms but could also be due to the low retention rates among those who initiated
Preference-aligned fertility management among married adolescent girls in Northern Nigeria
INTRODUCTION: Universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare-including family planning (FP)-is a global priority, yet there is no standard outcome measure to evaluate rights-based FP programme performance at the regional, national or global levels. METHODS: We collected a modified version of preference-aligned fertility management (PFM), a newly proposed rights-based FP outcome measure which we operationalised as concordance between an in…
Adolescent Girls' Agency in an Integrated Sexual and Reproductive Health and Economic Empowerment Intervention Pilot
INTRODUCTION: Adolescence is a time of unique vulnerability for many girls, however, when supported to strengthen their capabilities, resources, and agency, adolescents can thrive even in adverse situations. This study sought to evaluate agency outcomes (decision-making power, mobility, and self-efficacy) among girls aged 15-19 participating in integrated sexual and reproductive health and economic empowerment interventions in Ethiopia and Nigeri…
Person‐Centered Measurement
Despite growing enthusiasm for measurement approaches that capture individuals’ needs, values, and preferences, there remains a lack of conceptual clarity regarding person‐centered measurement in the global field of contraception. In this commentary, we propose a working definition of person‐centered measurement within the contraceptive field and describe how this definition can be applied to existing and novel contraceptive indicators. We argue …
Results from a maternal, newborn and child health program targeting pregnant, married adolescent girls in northern Nigeria
Adolescent pregnancy is a significant public health concern in Nigeria where adolescent girls (15–19 years) face high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality compared to older women. Interventions that address the unique needs of pregnant adolescents in the Nigerian context are critical to improve pregnancy-related health outcomes. This paper presents results from a longitudinal quasi-experimental study evaluating the effectiveness of a materna…
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