Publications by authors named "Cecilia Hoegfeldt"
Article Synopsis
- The text discusses how poverty, HIV, and perinatal depression in sub-Saharan Africa negatively impact parenting and child development, leading to public health concerns.
- It highlights a proposed intervention that combines mental health support and parenting assistance, delivered by lay counselors, to help depressed, HIV-positive pregnant women while optimizing healthcare resources.
- A cost-effectiveness analysis will evaluate this intervention's economic viability compared to standard care, measuring costs against improvements in maternal depression and child cognitive development over set timeframes.
Background: The combination of poverty, HIV and depression in the perinatal period represents a major public health challenge in many Southern African countries. In some areas, up to a third of HIV-positive women experience perinatal depression. Perinatal depression is associated with negative effects on parenting and key domains of child development including cognitive, behavioural and growth, especially in socio-economically disadvantaged communities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To estimate the prevalence of pre-existing diabetes in pregnancy from studies published during 2010-2020.
Methods: We searched PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus and other sources for relevant data sources. The prevalence of overall pre-existing, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, by country, region and period of study was synthesised from included studies using the inverse-variance heterogeneity model and the Freeman-Tukey transformation.
Aims: The approaches used to screen and diagnose gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) vary widely. We generated a comparable estimate of the global and regional prevalence of GDM by International Association of Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group (IADPSG)'s criteria.
Methods: We searched PubMed and other databases and retrieved 57 studies to estimate the prevalence of GDM.
Objective: Community-based peer and community health worker-led diabetes self-management programs (COMP-DSMP) can benefit diabetes care, but the supporting evidence has been inadequately assessed. This systematic review explores the nature of COMP-DSMP in low- and middle-income countries' (LMIC) primary care settings and evaluates implementation strategies and diabetes-related health outcomes.
Methods: We searched the Cochrane Library, PubMed-MEDLINE, SCOPUS, CINAHL PsycINFO Database, International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, Clinicaltrials.