Publications by authors named "M Mutumba"
Caregiver-adolescent sexual health communication can reduce sexual risk attitudes and behaviors, but less is known about caregiver-adolescent sexual health communication in Uganda. Using a risk-focused approach, this paper seeks to characterize caregiver-adolescent sexual health communication and associated individual and family-based attributes, and associations with adolescents' sexual risk attitudes. We used latent class analyses to derive typologies (classes) of sexual health communication and assess their relationships with respondents' socio-demographic characteristics and sexual risk-taking attitudes.
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- The study evaluates the psychometric properties of a modified 15-item East Africa Alcohol Expectancy Scale (AFEXS) specifically for Ugandan youth living with HIV (YLHIV), based on an original 17-item scale.
- Using a sample of 100 Ugandan YLHIV participating in a substance use intervention, researchers employed methods like exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to analyze the scale's effectiveness.
- The results showed high internal consistency and satisfactory convergent validity, confirming the youth AFEXS as a reliable tool for measuring alcohol use expectancies among this population.
Introduction: Sexual violence is a significant public health concern with severe physical, social and psychological consequences, which can be mitigated by health service utilisation. However, in Uganda and much of sub-Saharan Africa, these services are significantly underused, with 9 out of 10 survivors not seeking care due to a range of psychological, cultural, economic and logistical factors. Thus, there is a strong need for research to improve health service utilisation for survivors of sexual violence.
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- * Adverse childhood experiences and exposure to alcohol advertising are linked to increased odds of substance use, with odds ratios showing significant associations (1.24 for childhood experiences and 3.55 for advertising).
- * The findings highlight the urgent need for comprehensive interventions across individual, interpersonal, community, and policy levels to effectively address ADU among AYLHIV.