Rebecca F Grais

Dados Biográficos

ID157601
NOMERebecca F Grais
PRENOMESRebecca F
SOBRENOMEGrais
ASSINATURAGRAIS R F
AFILIAÇÕESEpicentre (South Africa)
ORCID0000-0002-5037-8218
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS30
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES10
TOTAL COMO AUTOR30
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2006
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • Effect of caregiver training on knowledge and confidence of at-home clinical and anthropometric surveillance of children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition

    Open AccessNazia Binte Ali, Matt D T Hitchings et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Patient-centred task-shifting models may be a promising strategy in the community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) to alleviate pressure on health systems and increase access to treatment in low-resource settings. The engagement of caregivers in clinical and anthropometric surveillance has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVES: We examined the effect of caregiver training on their knowledge and confidence in at-home clin…

  • Effect of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplements and medium-quantity lipid-based nutritional supplements on maternal weight gain and infant birth weight in rural Niger

    Open AccessSusan M Rattigan, Souna Garba et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: The risk of adverse birth outcomes, such as low birth weight ( 0.05). We found no effect of MMN or MQ-LNS on maternal haemoglobin concentration or anaemia in the second and third trimesters (p values >0.05). CONCLUSION: There was no statistically significant difference in birth weight, maternal weight gain or anaemia by prenatal nutritional supplementation strategy. However, statistical power in the trial was limited. A combination …

  • Using an analogue-digital hybrid clinical data management platform during a two-dose preventive Ebola virus vaccine trial in Goma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Open AccessHannah Brindle, Darius Tetsa-Tata et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Clinical trials in settings with intermittent or non-existent internet and power connectivity, for example during humanitarian emergencies, present challenges in the synchronisation of data across different sites, in addition to accessing a centralised database in real-time. To overcome these, we designed a novel hybrid analogue/digital data management system which was deployed during the rapid implementation of a Phase III evaluation of a two-do…

  • Protection, health seeking, or a laissez-passer

    Open AccessMyfanwy Vaughan James, Joseph Grace Kasereka et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Citada por: 1Referências: 27

    During the 10th Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (2018-2020), two experimental EVD vaccines were deployed in North Kivu. This province has been at the centre of conflict in the region for the last 25 years. Amidst ambivalence towards protracted foreign intervention and controversy about introducing two experimental vaccines, the existing literature has focused on mistrust and 'resistance' to…

  • Cost-effectiveness of monthly follow-up for the treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition

    Open AccessNicolas A Menzies, Fatou Berthé et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a major source of mortality for children in low resource settings. Alternative treatment models that improve acceptability and reduce caregiver burden are needed to improve treatment access. We assessed costs and cost-effectiveness of monthly vs. weekly follow-up (standard-of-care) for treating uncomplicated SAM in children 6–59 months of age. To do so, we conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis of a cluster-ran…

  • Burden and risk factors for relapse following successful treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition in young children

    Open AccessLilia Bliznashka, Kyra H Grantz et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    This study aimed to quantify the burden of relapse following successful treatment for uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and to identify associated risk factors in rural Niger. We used data from 1490 children aged 6-59 months discharged as recovered from an outpatient nutritional programme for SAM and followed for up to 12 weeks after admission. Postdischarge SAM relapse was defined as weight-for-height Z-score <-3, mid-upper arm circu…

  • Exploring the relationships between wasting and stunting among a cohort of children under two years of age in Niger

    Open AccessKristin Kohlmann, Christopher R Sudfeld et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02145000

  • Energy needs in the treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition

    Open AccessSheila Isanaka, Christopher T Andersen et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2020

    Outpatient therapeutic feeding protocols for the treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition in children were initially based on weight gain data from inpatient settings and expert knowledge of the physiological requirements during recovery. However, weight gain and energy requirements from historic inpatient settings may differ from modern outpatient settings and therefore may not be appropriate to guide current therapeutic feeding prot…

  • Linear growth faltering and the role of weight attainment

    Open AccessSheila Isanaka, Matt D T Hitchings et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Efforts to reduce the impact of stunting have been largely independent of interventions to reduce the impact of wasting, despite the observation that the conditions can coexist in the same child and increase risk of death. To optimize the management of malnourished children-who can be wasted, stunted, or both-the relationship between stunting and wasting should be elaborated. We aimed to describe the relationship between concurrent weight and hei…

  • Feasibility of engaging caregivers in at‐home surveillance of children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition

    Open AccessSheila Isanaka, Fatou Berthé et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Many factors can contribute to low coverage of treatment for severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and a limited number of health facilities and trained personnel can constrain the number of children that receive treatment. Alternative models of care that shift the responsibility for routine clinical and anthropometric surveillance from the health facility to the household could reduce the burden of care associated with frequent facility-based visits …

  • Determinants of dietary practices during pregnancy

    Open AccessJoseph G Rosen, Adrienne Clermont et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2018

    Undernutrition is associated with maternal morbidity and poor pregnancy outcomes. This qualitative study seeks to understand the multilevel factors influencing maternal dietary practices in Niger, including the impact of pregnancy illnesses on diet. Criterion-based, purposive sampling was used to select pregnant women and household members from 24 villages in a rural district of the Maradi Region in south-central Niger. Semistructured interviews …

  • Muac as the sole discharge criterion from community‐based management of severe acute malnutrition in Burkina Faso

    Open AccessSheila Isanaka, Kerstin E Hanson et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2018

    The use of mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) measurement to screen and determine eligibility for admission to therapeutic feeding programs has been established, but evidence and programmatic experience to inform guidance on the use of MUAC as a discharge criterion is limited. We present results from a large-scale nutritional program using MUAC for admission and discharge and compare program outcomes and response to treatment when determining eli…

  • Sub-national variation in measles vaccine coverage and outbreak risk

    Open AccessAvery Kundrick, Zhuojie Huang et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Each metric for prioritization may result in discrete target areas for vaccination campaigns; thus, there are tradeoffs to choosing one metric over another. However, in some cases, certain areas may be prioritized by all three metrics. These areas should be treated with particular concern. Furthermore, the spatial scale at which each metric is calculated impacts the resulting prioritization and should also be considered when prioritizing areas fo…

  • The gender, social and cultural influences on the management and use of unconditional cash transfers in Niger

    Open AccessJennifer Scott, Caroline Marquer et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2017

    Objective The current qualitative study aimed to identify gender, social and cultural influences on the management and use of unconditional cash transfers as part of a prospective intervention study in Niger. Design In February to March 2012, focus group discussions and semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with female caregivers of children aged 6 to 23 months who received unconditional cash transfers. Discussion and interview tra…

  • Cost analysis of the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in West Africa

    Open AccessSheila Isanaka, Nicolas A Menzies et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2016

    We present an updated cost analysis to provide new estimates of the cost of providing community-based treatment for severe acute malnutrition, including expenditure shares for major cost categories. We calculated total and per child costs from a provider perspective. We categorized costs into three main activities (outpatient treatment, inpatient treatment, and management/administration) and four cost categories within each activity (personnel; t…

  • Effect of ready‐to‐use foods for preventing child undernutrition in Niger

    Open AccessClaudine Prudhon, Céline Langendorf et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2016

    Strategies for preventing undernutrition comprise a range of interventions, including education, provision of complementary food and cash transfer. Here, we compared monthly distributions of two different lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS), large-quantity LNS (LNS-LQ) and medium-quantity LNS (LNS-MQ) for 15 months on prevention of undernutrition among children 6 to 23 months. Both groups also received cash transfer for the first 5 months of t…

  • Maternal perception of emotional difficulties of preschool children in rural Niger

    Open AccessCaroline Marquer, Rebecca F Grais et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatry2016Referências: 41

    Mental health care for infants and young children is often greatly limited in low-resource settings. The purpose of this study was to describe maternal perception of emotional difficulties of preschool children in a rural area of Niger (Maradi). In this context, both mental health awareness and services were scarce. This research was part of a larger cross-cultural validation study of a screening tool for psychological difficulties in children ag…

  • Description of a large measles epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo, 2010–2013

    Open AccessSilvia Mancini, Matthew E Coldiron et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2014

    The data reported here highlight the need to seek additional means to reinforce routine immunization as well as ensure the timely implementation of Supplementary Immunization Activities to prevent large and repeated measles epidemics in DRC. Although reactive campaigns were conducted in response to the epidemic, strategies to ensure that children are vaccinated in the routine system remains the foundation of measles control

  • Local discrepancies in measles vaccination opportunities

    Open AccessLise Grout, Nolwenn Conan et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    Control pre-elimination targets were still not reached, contributing to the occurrence of repeated measles outbreak in the Sub-Saharan African countries reported here. Although children receiving a dose of MCV through outbreak response benefit from the intervention, ensuring that programs effectively target hard to reach children remains the cornerstone of measles control

  • Short and longer-term psychological consequences of Operation Cast Lead

    Open AccessAugusto E Llosa, Germán Casas et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2012

    Evolving changes in patient volume, diagnoses and recall period to triggering events suggest a lengthy and durable effect of an intensified exposure to violence in a context of prolonged conflict. Our findings suggest that mental health related humanitarian relief in protracted conflicts might need to prepare for an increase in patients with changing profiles over an extended period following an acute flare-up in violence

  • Intra-household use and acceptability of Ready-to-Use-Supplementary-Foods distributed in Niger between July and December 2010

    Open AccessSandra Cohuet, Caroline Marquer et al.ARTICLEAppetite2012Citada por: 5Referências: 19

  • Description and consequences of sexual violence in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo

    Open AccessFrançoise Duroch, Melissa McRae et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2011

    BACKGROUND: The war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been the subject of numerous studies related to the problem of sexual violence. Historically, such violence is known to be part of strategic war plans to conquer and destroy communities, but it is now unfortunately prevalent in times of relative calm. METHODS: We describe the characteristics and consequences of sexual violence in Ituri province of Democratic Republic of Congo through…

  • Outcomes for street children and youth under multidisciplinary care in a drop-in centre in Tegucigalpa, Honduras

    Open AccessR R de Souza, Renato Souza et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2011

    Background: There is little evidence to describe the feasibility and outcomes of services for the care of street children and youth in low-income countries. Aims: To describe the outcomes of a multidisciplinary case management approach delivered in a drop-in centre for street children and youth. Methods: A longitudinal study of street children and youth followed in an urban drop-in centre. Four hundred (400) street children and youth received a m…

  • Integrating mental health into primary care for displaced populations

    Open AccessYolanda Mueller, Susanna Cristofani et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2011

    Brief psychotherapy sessions provided at primary level during emergencies can potentially improve patients' symptoms of distress

  • Health care seeking behavior for diarrhea in children under 5 in rural Niger

    Open AccessAnne‐Laure Page, Anne-Laure Page et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    The proportion of consultations for diarrhea cases in children under 5 years old was higher than those reported in previous surveys in Niger and elsewhere. Free health care for under 5 years old might have participated in this improvement. In this type of decentralized health systems, the WHO recommended hospital-based surveillance of severe diarrheal diseases would capture only a fraction of severe diarrhea. Lower levels of health structures sho…