Practical Ethics in Social Research with Children and Families in Young Lives: A Longitudinal Study of Childhood Poverty in Ethiopia, Andhra Pradesh (India), Peru and Vietnam

Morrow, Virginia

doi:10.4256/mio.2013.011

Cited by 24 publications

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“…Informed consent was obtained for all adult participants, and the baseline survey obtained a response rate of over 90% in each of the three countries [ 37 ]. Ethical approval for the Young Lives study was granted by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine [ 38 ]. While there were no exclusion criteria for the original data collection, this analysis excludes primary caregivers other than the biological mother ( n = 108) and those missing mental health data ( n = 255), resulting in 5647 cases: n = 1906, 1886, and 1855 in Ethiopia, Andhra Pradesh, and Vietnam, respectively.…”

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Symptom Endorsement and Sociodemographic Correlates of Postnatal Distress in Three Low Income Countries

Nguyen

Haroz

Mendelson

et al. 2016

Depression Research and Treatment

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Background. Maternal mental illness has been implicated in adverse child development outcomes. Factors such as context and culture may influence experiences of maternal distress and explain differences in outcomes across settings. Methods. We analyzed baseline data from 5,647 mothers in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), and Vietnam participating in an ongoing cohort study (Young Lives) to compare symptom endorsement and sociodemographic correlates of distress. Maternal distress was assessed using the Self-Reporting Questionnaire-20 Items (cutoff: ≥8). Logistic regressions were stratified by sample to identify correlates of distress. Results. Symptom endorsement was similar among distressed women, particularly with regard to feeling unhappy (76%, 80%, and 79%). Notable differences were observed in three items assessing Depressive Thoughts, which were most highly endorsed in Ethiopia (49%–56%). Having a child experiencing a life-threatening event was correlated with distress in all three samples. A variety of correlates were unique to only one sample. Conclusions. There were multiple similarities but also notable differences across sites in the expression and correlates of maternal distress. Feeling unhappy appears to be a hallmark feature of distress. Correlates highlight the relationship between distress and indicators of poverty, child wellbeing, and economic shocks. Differences demonstrate the value of further exploration of cross-cultural differences.

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Symptom Endorsement and Sociodemographic Correlates of Postnatal Distress in Three Low Income Countries

Nguyen

Haroz

Mendelson

et al. 2016

Depression Research and Treatment

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“…During data collection, all procedures performed with human subjects 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. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants (children, caregivers, and any other involved) at each round of fieldwork (Morrow 2013). Young Lives has received approval from the ethical board of the University of Oxford and the study countries.…”

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Nutritional Status from 1 to 15 Years and Adolescent Learning for Boys and Girls in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

Aurino

Schott

Behrman

et al. 2019

Popul Res Policy Rev

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There has been little examination of: (1) associations of early-life nutrition and adolescent cognitive skills, (2) if they vary by gender, (3) if they differ by diverse contexts, and (4) contributions of post-infancy growth to adolescent cognitive attainment. We use Young Lives data on 7687 children from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam to undertake ordinary least squares estimates of associations between age-1 height-forage z-score (HAZ) and age-15 cognitive outcomes (math, reading, vocabulary), controlling for child and household factors. Age-1 HAZ is positively associated with cognitive scores in all countries. Child gender-specific estimates for these coefficients either do not differ (math, reading) or favor girls (vocabulary). Augmenting models to include growth in HAZ between ages 1 and 15 years that was not predicted by HAZ at age 1 reveals that such improvements are associated with higher cognitive scores, but that sex-specific coefficients for this predictor favor boys in India and Peru. The results suggest that nutritional indicators at age 1 have gender-neutral associations with math and reading and favor girls for vocabulary achievement at age 15, but unpredicted improvements in HAZ by adolescence are associated with higher cognitive scores for boys than for girls. This evidence enriches our understanding of relationships between children's nutritional trajectories during childhood and adolescent cognitive development, and how these associations vary by gender in some contexts to the possible disadvantage of girls.

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“…Researching novice participants in a not-so-well researched marketplace, and interacting with such a highly mobile group, in a very changing and challenging environment, is not only complicated and at times overwhelming but has possible repercussions for the researcher and researched community (Morrow, 2013). The field was volatile and unsafe and made some of the ethically approved research methods impracticable.…”

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Ethical issues and dilemmas in doing research with itinerant street vending children and young people: Experiences from Nigeria

Okoli

2014

Qualitative Social Work

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It has been widely acknowledged in recent years that contemporary ideas about children and childhoods are framed by perceptions and definitions that are both Western/ minority world and adult-centred. This paper argues that this is not only the case for theoretical concepts but is also found in research practice, and, in particular, in the commonly accepted ethical frameworks for conducting research with children and young people. Drawing from multi-sited fieldwork and a combined ethnographic methodology of participant observation and semi-structured interviews, this paper discusses the realities of conducting research with itinerant street vending children and young people in busy Nigerian streets and marketplaces in Enugu urban, who had never taken part in a research project. It explores five key ethical issues that arose from the study and reflects on the dilemmas involved with researching and relating with such a highly mobile group within a chaotic, yet organised market environment. The paper concludes that doing ethical research with children and young people in the developing world is fraught with issues and dilemmas that can best be resolved not by adopting textbook, 'Western' ethical research frameworks and constructions that do not reflect the lived realities of non-western children, but by constantly negotiating and renegotiating boundaries of inequalities, moral values, cultural beliefs and practices and specific contexts within which majority world children live and grow.

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Practical Ethics in Social Research with Children and Families in Young Lives: A Longitudinal Study of Childhood Poverty in Ethiopia, Andhra Pradesh (India), Peru and Vietnam

Cited by 24 publications

References 25 publications

Symptom Endorsement and Sociodemographic Correlates of Postnatal Distress in Three Low Income Countries

Symptom Endorsement and Sociodemographic Correlates of Postnatal Distress in Three Low Income Countries

Nutritional Status from 1 to 15 Years and Adolescent Learning for Boys and Girls in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

Ethical issues and dilemmas in doing research with itinerant street vending children and young people: Experiences from Nigeria

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