Publications by authors named "Edith Kayira"
Background: Although 80% of children with disabilities live in developing countries, there are few culturally appropriate developmental assessment tools available for these settings. Often tools from the West provide misleading findings in different cultural settings, where some items are unfamiliar and reference values are different from those of Western populations.
Methods And Findings: Following preliminary and qualitative studies, we produced a draft developmental assessment tool with 162 items in four domains of development.
Background: Premature birth is the major cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity in both high- and low-income countries. The causes of preterm labour are multiple but infection is important. We have previously described an unusually high incidence of preterm birth (20%) in an ultrasound-dated, rural, pregnant population in Southern Malawi with high burdens of infective morbidity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: to investigate perceptions of preterm birth, infections in pregnancy and perinatal mortality among women, men and health-care providers in Namitambo, Southern Malawi.
Design: a qualitative study using focus-group discussions, critical incidence narrative and key informant interviews. The framework approach to qualitative analysis was used.
Background: Preterm birth is the major cause of neonatal death, and has an incidence in industrialized countries of 7%. We have found a high incidence (25-30%) previously in a population of anaemic, pregnant women in southern Malawi, studied with ultrasound dating.
Methods: Cohort study of 512 unselected pregnant women in rural communities in Malawi.