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Empowering self-help groups for caregivers of children with disabilities in Kilifi, Kenya: Impacts and their underlying mechanisms
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Bringing up a child with disabilities in a low-income setting is challenged by inadequate resources, limited psycho-social support and poverty. Not surprisingly, many caregivers experience fatigue, distress and isolation. To address and investigate these issues, action was taken to set up twenty self-help groups focusing on caregiver empowerment. A realist evaluation design was adopted to evaluate impacts associated with the self-help process and to identify mechanisms determining the outcome...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 3
- Article number:
- e0229851
- Publication date:
- 2020-03-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-02-15
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
- Pmid:
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32150566
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1092613
- Local pid:
- pubs:1092613
- Deposit date:
- 2020-04-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Bunning et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- Copyright: © 2020 Bunning et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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