Design and field methods of the ARISE Network Adolescent Health Study
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2020
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Tropical Medicine & International Health
Abstract
The ARISE Network Adolescent Health Study is an exploratory, community-based survey of 8075
adolescents aged 10–19 in 9 communities in 7 countries: Burkina Faso, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana,
Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Communities were selected opportunistically and existing population
cohorts maintained by health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSSs). The study is intended
to serve as a first round of data collection for African adolescent cohorts, with the overarching goal
of generating community-based data on health-related behaviours and associated risk factors in
adolescents, to identify disease burdens and health intervention opportunities. Household-based
sampling frames were used in each community to randomly select eligible adolescents (aged 10–
19 years). Data were collected between July 2015 and December 2017. Consenting participants
completed face-to-face interviews with trained research assistants using a standardised questionnaire,
which covered physical activity, cigarette and tobacco use, substance and drug use, mental health,
sexual behaviours and practices, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, food security and food
diversity, teeth cleaning and hand washing, feelings and friendship, school and home activities,
physical attacks and injuries, health care, health status assessment and life satisfaction, as well as
media and cell phone use and socio-demographic and economic background characteristics. Results
from this multi-community study serve to identify major adolescent health risks and disease burdens,
as well as opportunities for interventions and improvements through policy changes.
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Adolescent health, Community-based survey, Multi-country study, Cohort study, Sub- Saharan Africa
Citation
Darling, A. M., Assefa, N., Bärnighausen, T., Berhane, Y., Canavan, C. R., Guwatudde, D., ... & Fawzi, W. W. (2020). Design and field methods of the ARISE Network Adolescent Health Study. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 25(1), 5-14. doi:10.1111/tmi.13327