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Prioritizing food systems interventions to reduce adolescents' nutrition insecurity and malnutrition in low-income settings: protocol for the Dishi Fiti Ishi Fiti (Eat Well Live Well) mixed-methods study.

Gwenyth O Lee, Benjamin Jj McCormick, Wiktoria Staromiejska, Vincent Mutuku, Elizabeth L Fox, Simon Kimenju, Patrice Akusa Mawa, G Asiki, Shauna Downs

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Gwenyth O LeeRutgers Global Health Institute, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA gwenyth.lee@globalhealth.rutgers.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7889-3852
Benjamin Jj McCormickUniversity of Aberdeen, The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, Aberdeen, UK.
Wiktoria StaromiejskaDepartment of Health Behavior, Society and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health, Newark, New Jersey, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-9759-0518
Vincent MutukuG-thamini Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya.
Elizabeth L FoxDepartment of Public and Ecosystem Health, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
Simon KimenjuKula Vyema Centre of Food Economics, Kiambu, Kenya.
Patrice Akusa MawaAfrican Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya.
G AsikiAfrican Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya.
Shauna DownsDepartment of Health Behavior, Society and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health, Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Funding

[R01] Prioritizing food systems interventions to reduce adolescents’ nutrition insecurity and malnutrition in low-income settingsR01HD113723 · NICHD · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Shauna Downs, GWENYTH O'NEILL LEE · 2024 to 2026
$1.8M
Dynamic modeling of antagonism between enteric infection and undernutritionin infancyK01AI145080 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI LEE, GWENYTH O'NEILL · 2020 to 2024
$570k
NIAID NIH HHS K01 AI145080NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD113723
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Abstract

introductionAdolescents in informal urban communities, defined as settlements that fall outside of formal governmental planning and regulatory frameworks, are at increasing risk of poor-quality diets and malnutrition in all its forms. The food environment is the interface of adolescent food choice and the broader food system, and food environment interventions have the potential to improve adolescent diets and nutritional outcomes. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: We will conduct a mixed-methods study, integrating methods from participatory systems science and nutritional epidemiology to characterise linkages among adolescents' neighbourhood and home food environments, and their food choices, diets and nutritional outcomes. We will recruit adolescents, caregivers, school staff and food system actors from five communities along a gradient of urban informality in Nairobi, Kenya, to participate in cognitive mapping, group-based modelling and a cohort study over one academic year to evaluate dietary choices and nutritional outcomes. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The study has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Rutgers University (Pro2024001981) and Amref Health Africa (P1831-2025). Adult participants will provide written informed consent, and adolescents will provide written informed assent to participate in the study. Findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journals, conference presentations and to participants through planned participatory interaction throughout the study.

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Food InsecurityFood SupplyMalnutritionPovertyAdolescentFemaleHumansKenyaMaleNutritional StatusResearch DesignAdolescentsNUTRITION & DIETETICSPUBLIC HEALTHResearch Design

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PMID41198209
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