3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
GSB 550, 116 st 89 ave, 515 general ser, edmonton Alberta
Title: Complementarity Between Psychological and Physical Interventions: Evidence from Child Health Programs in Rural Tanzania
Speaker: Innocent Katulunga, Graduate Research Asst Fellowship, Department of REES, University of Alberta
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: GSB 550
Abstract:
Child stunting is a public health issue that affects millions of children under five years of age around the world. This condition hinders cognitive development, posing challenges for academic success and future earning potential. Consequently, it perpetuates a cycle of poverty and malnutrition. Over the long term, stunting threatens overall health and economic development. The Empowered World View (EWV) is a faith-based psychological behavior change interventions which aim to shift psychological factors related to beliefs and practices that contribute to poverty and negative outcomes for children’s well-being such as stunting. It is being carried out in rural Tanzania alongside physical interventions. Our first objective is to evaluate the impact of combining physical and psychological behavior change interventions compared to physical interventions alone in improving Height-for-Age Z-scores (HAZ) for children under five in two years in rural Tanzania. Our second objective is to identify which components of physical interventions complement (or substitute) the psychological intervention in improving Height-for-Age Z-scores (HAZ) for children under five in two years in rural Tanzania.
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