Publications by authors named "Boyo Constant Pare"
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- The study assessed the mental stress levels of health workers in Burkina Faso during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding a mean PSS-10 score of 29.3, indicating high stress.
- About 68% of the participants reported high stress levels, primarily due to fears of infection and contaminating others.
- The findings suggest a need for psychological support for health workers to better manage stress in future health crises.
Introduction: Despite the efforts of nutrition stakeholders in Burkina Faso to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, the country is still struggling to stem undernutrition. Wasting, or acute malnutrition, is the form of malnutrition that has the most harmful short-term consequences for children. The objective of our study was to estimate the prevalence of wasting in children aged 6-23 months in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso and to identify its associated factors.
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