Baiocchi, Michael
Omondi, Benjamin
Langat, Nickson
Boothroyd, Derek B.
Sinclair, Jake
Pavia, Lee
Mulinge, Munyae
Githua, Oscar
Golden, Neville H.
Sarnquist, Clea
Funding for this research was provided by:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (KHS022192A)
Article History
First Online: 25 August 2016
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Members of the Stanford evaluation team did not have their time compensated for by Ujamaa-Africa and do not have ongoing financial connections with Ujamaa-Africa. Drs. Mulinge and Githua have ongoing financial connections to Ujamaa-Africa. The instructors, and thus the survey interviewers, were employees of Ujamaa-Africa. Thus, the in-country data collection was funded by Ujamaa-Africa.
: Approval for the study in Kenya was provided by the Kenyan National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI). All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study is an evaluation of a preexisting program, already being delivered by Ujamaa, in schools in these communities. The study consisted of anonymous, two-page surveys completed at baseline and follow-up. The Stanford internal review board (IRB) did a preliminary review of this project and determined that this short, anonymous survey did not raise human subject research issues and therefore did not require a full review.
: Ujamaa-Africa obtained assent from all study participants.