I just completed my PhD program in Global Mental Health at Queen Margaret University. My work was focused on perinatal mental health. I used an ethnographic approach to understand how pregnant women a and new mothers experience and express perinatal psychological distress, their coping strategies and help-seeking behaviour. I then used this data to develop a screening tool and culturally adapted a psychosocial intervention for them. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Boston College working with Professor Theresa Betancourt on a longitudinal study investigating the intergenerational transmission of trauma from former child soldiers to their offspring in Sierra Leone.
Introduction : There is limited data regarding the long-term health effects of child survivors of... more Introduction : There is limited data regarding the long-term health effects of child survivors of the 2013–2016 West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak. Here, we assess post-Ebola complications among EVD child survivors by comparing the self-reported symptoms between EVD child survivors and their close household contacts over one year after the end of the outbreak. Methods Child EVD survivors(n = 159) and their close contacts(n = 303) were enrolled in Western and Eastern Sierra Leone. Demographic and self-reported symptoms data were collected using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. We compared a list of self-reported symptoms between EVD child survivors and their close household contacts using backward stepwise logistic regression. Results Child EVD survivors were more likely to be orphans compared to their controls. Musculoskeletal, ocular, auditory and neurological symptoms were more prevalent among Ebola survivors than their close contacts (p
Introduction : There is limited data regarding the long-term health effects of child survivors of... more Introduction : There is limited data regarding the long-term health effects of child survivors of the 2013–2016 West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak. Here, we assess post-Ebola complications among EVD child survivors by comparing the self-reported symptoms between EVD child survivors and their close household contacts over one year after the end of the outbreak. Methods Child EVD survivors(n = 159) and their close contacts(n = 303) were enrolled in Western and Eastern Sierra Leone. Demographic and self-reported symptoms data were collected using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. We compared a list of self-reported symptoms between EVD child survivors and their close household contacts using backward stepwise logistic regression. Results Child EVD survivors were more likely to be orphans compared to their controls. Musculoskeletal, ocular, auditory and neurological symptoms were more prevalent among Ebola survivors than their close contacts (p
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