TY - JOUR
T1 - Inter-relatedness of underlying factors for injury and violence among adolescents in rural coastal Kenya
T2 - A qualitative study
AU - Ssewanyana, Derrick
AU - van Baar, Anneloes
AU - Mwangala, Patrick N.
AU - Newton, Charles R.
AU - Abubakar, Amina
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Funding support to this work was provided by the Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders (IDeAL) Wellcome Trust award (Grant No. 107769/Z/15/Z) to D.S. as a PhD fellowship and the Medical Research Council (Grant No. MR/M025454/1) to A.A. The MRC award was jointly funded by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) under MRC/DFID Concordant agreement and is also part of the EDCTP2 program supported by the European Union. The funding bodies do not have any role in the design of this study, data collection, analysis, and interpretation, and writing of the manuscript.
Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank all the participants that took part in this study. They also thank Irene Jao for her role in data collection during this study. This manuscript is published with the permission of the director of Kenya Medical Research Institute. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Funding support to this work was provided by the Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders (IDeAL) Wellcome Trust award (Grant No. 107769/Z/15/Z) to D.S. as a PhD fellowship and the Medical Research Council (Grant No. MR/M025454/1) to A.A. The MRC award was jointly funded by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) under MRC/DFID Concordant agreement and is also part of the EDCTP2 program supported by the European Union. The funding bodies do not have any role in the design of this study, data collection, analysis, and interpretation, and writing of the manuscript.
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PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - We utilized a socio-ecological model to explore views from 85 young people and 10 local stakeholders on forms and underlying factors for unintentional injury, violence, self-harm, and suicidal behavior of adolescents in Kilifi County, Kenya. Young people took part in 11 focus group discussions, whereas 10 in-depth interviews were conducted with the local stakeholders. Road traffic accidents, falls, fights, sexual and gender-based violence, theft, and vandalism were viewed as common. There was an overlap of risk factors, especially at intra- and interpersonal levels (gender, poverty, substance use, parenting behavior, school drop-out). Some broader-level risk factors were insecure neighborhoods and risky sources of livelihood. Research is needed to quantify burden and to pilot feasible injury prevention interventions in this setting.
AB - We utilized a socio-ecological model to explore views from 85 young people and 10 local stakeholders on forms and underlying factors for unintentional injury, violence, self-harm, and suicidal behavior of adolescents in Kilifi County, Kenya. Young people took part in 11 focus group discussions, whereas 10 in-depth interviews were conducted with the local stakeholders. Road traffic accidents, falls, fights, sexual and gender-based violence, theft, and vandalism were viewed as common. There was an overlap of risk factors, especially at intra- and interpersonal levels (gender, poverty, substance use, parenting behavior, school drop-out). Some broader-level risk factors were insecure neighborhoods and risky sources of livelihood. Research is needed to quantify burden and to pilot feasible injury prevention interventions in this setting.
KW - adolescents
KW - injury
KW - socio-ecological
KW - violence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067695084&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/2055102919849399
DO - 10.1177/2055102919849399
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067695084
SN - 2055-1029
VL - 6
JO - Health Psychology Open
JF - Health Psychology Open
IS - 1
ER -
