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Research study to develop support for teenagers’ experiences of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 in Low-Middle Income Countries
A grant of ?65,000 is enabling early-career Global-NAMRIP member Polly Hardy-Johnson, and her colleagues Professor Mary Barker , Professor Caroline Fall , Associate Professor Kate Ward (all from the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit), Professor Shane Norris (University of Witwatersrand, University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载), Dr Susie Weller and Daniella Watson (both from the University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载) to expand the?EACH-B?research into teenagers’ experiences of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 to include Low-Middle Income Country (LMIC) research sites in Ghana, South Africa, Ethiopia and India .
Polly, a trainee Health Psychologist, won the award from the University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 GCRF Strategic Development Fund, allowing expansion of the Teenagers' Experiences of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 (TeC-19) project which started in the UK using BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载’s Global Health Network .
The aims of the study are to understand how the pandemic is affecting the lives, mental health and well-being, and eating habits and physical activity behaviours of young people living in both rural and urban settings across sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa) and India.
The next stage will be to develop resources to support young people to maintain well-being, eat well, keep active and adhere to government guidelines during the pandemic. Insights from the young people will be disseminated to the research sites’ local and national government and youth organisations.
Finally, the data collected will be used to inform the design of future interventions to support young people adapt to life in the years following the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 pandemic.
The project started?in June and?will?run for 6 months.
The original TeC-19 study, funded by the Institute of Life Sciences , saw researchers from Medicine’s MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the?BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Education School, Psychology and Health Sciences explore the impact of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 restrictions on young people and how they could be better supported during the pandemic.