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Shamiri Templeton Comparative Effectiveness Trial
No full textThis project page is used to store data, preprints, code, protocols, and other publicly available project materials for the Templeton World Charity Foundation-funded 2021 five-group RCT of Shamiri and its component intervention
Shamiri Templeton Comparative Effectiveness Trial
No full textThis project page is used to store data, preprints, code, protocols, and other publicly available project materials for the Templeton World Charity Foundation-funded 2021 five-group RCT of Shamiri and its component intervention
Shamiri Templeton Comparative Effectiveness Trial
No full textThis project page is used to store data, preprints, code, protocols, and other publicly available project materials for the Templeton World Charity Foundation-funded 2021 five-group RCT of Shamiri and its component intervention
A qualitative exploration of participants’ preferred elements of the 4-week, youth-led, youth-focused, group-based Shamiri intervention: A brief overview
Get PDFIntroduction: Adolescent mental health challenges have been identified as a public health concern globally, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), due to the scarcity of services, where help-seeking is often hampered by social stigma. A strategy to increase the availability of services is to implement, brief, stigma-free, and scalable interventions. The Shamiri Intervention (the Kiswahili word for “thrive”) is an example of a 4-week, group-based intervention which is implemented via 1-hour sessions within high school settings.
Purpose: The present study employed qualitative methods to explore participant feedback on their preferred elements of Shamiri Intervention. The aim is to use the feedback to help to guide and improve intervention effectiveness, acceptability, and appropriateness. The results have the potential to understand better lay-provided mental health service delivery and design among high school students in LMICs, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
Methodology: The project employed a qualitative phenomenological design to collect participant feedback, and reflective thematic analysis was used to analyze the data.
Results: The researchers constructed the following themes to summarize the participants’ responses: learning (acquiring new knowledge related to the core components of the Shamiri Intervention, i.e., growth mindset, values affirmation, and gratitude); rewards (e.g., prizes award that encouraged participation); positive interaction (i.e., the peer-lead delivery); and solutions-oriented (e.g., the practicality of the Shamiri Intervention).
Conclusion: The preferred components of the Shamiri Intervention were learning, rewards for participation, positive interactions with other people, and the solution-oriented nature of the sessions. The mentioning of the features of the Shamiri Intervention could also suggest that, indeed, they are appropriate for the target population. Additionally, the support for the lay providers is critical in Shamiri intervention cost-effectiveness, accessibility, and scalabilit
Comparing centralized and decentralized delivery of Shamiri: A 3-arm randomized controlled trial
No full textThis repository contains materials, data, and analyses for a three-arm randomized controlled trial comparing centralized versus decentralized implementation of the Shamiri intervention among Kenyan secondary school students. The study addresses a critical gap in implementation science by empirically comparing dissemination strategies for evidence-based youth mental health interventions in low-resource settings.
Study Design: Three-arm parallel-group RCT conducted across seven public secondary schools in Machakos and Makueni counties, Kenya (February-August 2023). Participants were randomized to: (1) centralized Shamiri delivery by originating organization, (2) decentralized delivery by trained external partner (AFRIMEB), or (3) treatment-as-usual control.
Primary Outcomes: Depression (PHQ-8) and anxiety (GAD-7) symptoms at endpoint and one-month follow-up. Secondary outcomes included psychological wellbeing (SWEMWS) and comprehensive implementation metrics (fidelity, acceptability, penetration, cost-effectiveness).
Registration: Pan-African Clinical Trials Registry (PACTR202305589854478)
Ethics Approval: Kenyatta University Ethics Review Committee (PKU/2627/E1752)
Funding: Fond's d'Innovation pour le développement (FID), Grant CKE 119
The Shamiri Group Intervention for Adolescent Anxiety and Depression
No full textDeveloping low-cost yet scalable interventions for youth depression and anxiety symptoms in low-income regions such as countries in Sub Saharan Africa is a global mental health priority. We developed and intend to evaluate one such intervention for adolescent depression and anxiety in Kenya. The intervention, named Shamiri (a Swahili word for ‘thrive’), draws upon evidence-based components of brief interventions that involve nonclinical principles rather than treatment of psychopathology (e.g. growth mindset, gratitude and virtues).
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The Shamiri Group Intervention for Adolescent Anxiety and Depression: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Lay Provider-Delivered, School-Based Intervention in Kenya
No full textBackground
Developing low-cost, socio-culturally appropriate, and scalable interventions for youth depression and anxiety symptoms in low-income regions such as countries in Sub Saharan Africa is a global mental health priority. We developed and intend to evaluate one such intervention for adolescent depression and anxiety in Kenya. The intervention, named Shamiri (a Swahili word for ‘thrive’), draws upon evidence-based components of brief interventions that involve nonclinical principles rather than treatment of psychopathology (e.g. growth mindset, gratitude and virtues).
Methods
At least 400 Kenyan adolescents (ages 13-18) with clinically elevated depression and/or anxiety symptoms will be randomized to either the four-week Shamiri group intervention or a group study-skills control intervention of equal duration and dosage. Participating adolescents will meet in groups of 8-15, led by a high-school graduate trained to deliver Shamiri as a lay-provider. Adolescents will self-report primary outcome measures (depression—measured by the PHQ-8, and anxiety symptoms—measured by the GAD-7) and secondary outcome measures (perceived social support, perceived academic control, self-reported optimism and happiness, loneliness, and academic grades) at the 2-week intervention midpoint, 4-week post-intervention endpoint, and 2-week post-intervention follow-up. We predict that adolescents in the Shamiri group, when compared to the study-skills control group, will show greater improvements in primary outcomes and secondary outcomes.
Discussion
Results may suggest that a brief, lay-provider delivered, school-based intervention may reduce depression and anxiety symptoms, improve academic outcomes and other psychosocial outcomes in adolescents with clinically-elevated symptoms in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Trial Registration
Pan African Clinical Trials Registry. Trial ID: PACTR201906525818462. Registered 12th June 2019.
Keywords: Adolescents, Sub Saharan Africa, Global Mental Health, Depression, Anxiety, Shamiri
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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