Adapting a substance use screening and brief intervention for peer-delivery and for youth in Kenya.

Background: Substance use is a major problem among youth in sub-Saharan Africa, yet interventions that address this problem are scarce within the region. Screening and brief intervention is a cost-effective, efficacious, and easy to scale public health approach to addressing substance use problems. We conducted a pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of implementing a peer delivered screening and brief intervention program for youth in Kenya.

Feasibility and acceptability of a peer provider delivered substance use screening and brief intervention program for youth in Kenya.

Background: Youth in sub-Saharan Africa are at high risk of substance use yet lack access to substance use interventions. The goal of this project was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a peer-delivered, single-session substance use screening and brief intervention program for youth in Kenya.

Methods: This was a convergent parallel mixed methods study utilizing both quantitative and qualitative approaches.

A qualitative exploration of family system impacts following men's engagement in an alcohol misuse intervention in peri-urban Kenya.

Background: Men's alcohol misuse does not occur in a vacuum but has a cascade of consequences for families and children, with ties to violence, poor parenting, and poor partner and child mental health. Despite the intersection of individual and interpersonal problems associated with men's alcohol use, studies exploring the impact of men's completion of alcohol misuse treatment on family and family member outcomes are scarce. Here we begin to explore this question.

Early Growth Performance of In Vitro Raised Gürke Plantlets in Response to Beneficial Microorganisms under Semi-Arid Conditions.

Before in vitro propagated plants can be used for mass planting, the transition phase to in vivo conditions needs to be better controlled because too many plants are lost during acclimatization and in the field. Two experiments were set up to evaluate the effects of biological agents on the establishment of in vitro plantlets. The biological agents consisted of Trichotech, Bio-cure B, Rhizatech, a isolate and self-isolated native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF).