It has taken 7 months for my 1-year observational pilot study – Maternal Mental Health and Early Childhood Development in Kawempe (MMH4ECD) – to get through the triple-layer ethical review gauntlet. Although most of the work of obtaining ethical clearance is done prior to and during the local review, for an American researcher anyway, unanticipated […]
Author: Andrea L.S. Bulungu
Feverishly Paddling Duck Feet
It has been over a month since my last post and although a lot of work on the “Early Childhood Development for Maternal Mental Health” study –now rechristened the “Maternal Mental Health and Early Childhood Development in Kawempe” study–there is little observable progress to share. I’m stuck in IRB limbo: I am just a few […]
The Often Thankless But Essential Work of Instrument Validation
My ACHIEVE project, The Early Childhood Development for Maternal Mental Health study (ECD4MMH), will explore the potential for improving maternal mental health (MMH) during the critical “first 1,000 days” of child growth and development through a community-based early childhood development (ECD) program delivered by community workers in a peri-urban area of Kampala, Uganda. Many of […]