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Factors related to students’ psychological distress during COVID-19 disruption across countries

Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
Background The global outbreak of the novel COVID-19 virus presented a significant threat to students’ well-being across the globe. In this paper, we construct a measure of student psychological distress related to COVID-19 disruption.
Mojca Rožman, Yuan-Ling Liaw, Minge Chen   +2 more
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Use of community engagement interventions to improve child immunisation in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2022
Immunisation is one of the most cost‐effective interventions to prevent and control life‐threatening infectious diseases. Nonetheless, rates of routine vaccination of children in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) are strikingly low or stagnant. In
Monica Jain, Shannon Shisler, Charlotte Lane, Avantika Bagai, Elizabeth Brown, Mark Engelbert, Yoav Vardy, John Eyers, Daniela Anda Leon, Shradha S. Parsekar   +9 more
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Effect of Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato Purée and Wheat Flour Blends on β-Carotene, Selected Physicochemical and Microbiological Properties of Bread

Foods, 2022
Partial substitution of wheat flour with orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) purée in bread can increase vitamin A intake among consumers. The study investigated the influence of wheat flour substitution with 20–50% of OFSP purée on proximate composition,
Derick Malavi, Daniel Mbogo, Mukani Moyo, Lucy Mwaura, Jan Low, Tawanda Muzhingi   +5 more
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Inequality in remote learning quality during COVID-19: student perspectives and mitigating factors

Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Background Remote learning, or synchronous or asynchronous instruction provided to students outside the classroom, was a common strategy used by schools to ensure learning continuity for their students when many school buildings were forced to shut down ...
Alec I. Kennedy, Ana María Mejía-Rodríguez, Andrés Strello   +2 more
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Use of community engagement interventions to improve child immunisation in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective To support evidence informed decision-making, we systematically examine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community engagement interventions on routine childhood immunisation outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs ...
Elizabeth Brown, Monica Jain, Charlotte Lane, Mark Engelbert, Shannon Shisler, Avantika Bagai   +5 more
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Timely evaluation in international development [PDF]

Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018
Impact and process evaluations are increasingly used in international development; however they are generally retrospective in outlook. A more timely approach to evaluation aims to identify necessary, feasible and effective changes during a programme or intervention’s lifetime.
Webster, Jayne, Exley, Josephine, Copestake, James, Davies, Rick, Hargreaves, James   +4 more
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Evaluating the interview performance of internal medicine interns

Academic Medicine, 1989
Limited primary data are available to indicate in which areas physicians' interview performances are deficient. Videotaped recordings of 48 house officers performing a complete medical history were evaluated using a checklist to assess content, questioning technique, and interview style.
John R. Meuleman, George J. Caranasos
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Making the most of existing research: an evidence gap map of the effects of food systems interventions in low-income and middle-income countries

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective Identify and describe the available evidence on the effects food systems interventions on food security and nutrition outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries.Methods An adapted version of the high-level panel of experts food systems ...
Birte Snilstveit, Ingunn Gilje Storhaug, Charlotte Lane, Nick Moore, Mark Engelbert, Thalia Morrow Sparling, Amber Franich, Heike Rolker   +7 more
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JAHEE internal evaluation

European Journal of Public Health, 2022
Abstract The evaluation of the project for both the intermediate and the final report was based on an internal evaluation conducted by Work Package on Evaluation and on an external evaluation conducted by the Center for Global Health Inequality Research (CHAIN).
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Evaluating Environment in International Development [PDF]

, 2021
Forewords by Yolanda Kakabadse and Indran A. Naidoo Part 1. Introduction and Conceptual Background 1. Introduction: Evaluating Contributions to National Results in Environment and Development Juha I. Uitto 2. A Global Public Goods Perspective on Environment and Poverty Rob D. van den Berg 3.
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