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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Making the Most of Existing Research: An Evidence Gap Map of the Effects of Food Systems Interventions in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries
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Food Systems
AnemiaFood SecurityFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The most common interventions to address malnutrition included providing supplements, fortification, food, nutrition classes, and peer support and counseling. Anthropometry, micronutrient status, and diet quality and adequacy were the most common outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Impacts of Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods on the Maternal-Child Health: A Systematic Review
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
Consuming large quantities of ultra-processed food had negative impacts on women’s health during pregnancy and lactat
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Restrictions on the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages to Children Advocacy Cartoons
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Adolescent NutritionFood Security
These cartoons are part of a larger advocacy package developed by UNICEF to support the design, implementation, enforcement, and evaluation of various strategies aimed at ensuring a safe and healthy food environment to prevent childhood overweight and obesity.
Caregiver Resources Measures
World Health Organization’s Violence Against Women Instrument (VAWI)
An instrument to study women’s exposure to emotional, physical, and sexual violence by an intimate partner. It is part of WHO’s Multi-Country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women conducted in 10 countries.
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Hurt, Insult, Threaten, And Scream (HITS) Scale
A screening tool increasingly used in clinical practice to assess intimate partner violence (IPV).
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India National Family Health Survey: Domestic Violence Module
The Domestic Violence Module in the India National Family Health survey measures women’s experience of physical, sexual, and emotional violence. It also asks about physical consequences of violence.
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DHS Domestic Violence Module: Experience of Physical and Sexual Violence by Partner or Spouse
A module included in the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), a large-scale nationally representative survey that covers many aspects of family and health for both men and women, in addition to domestic violence.
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Short Adapted Social Capital Assessment Tool (SASCAT)
Measures three aspects of structural social capital (membership of groups, involvement in citizenship activities, and social support from the community), as well as cognitive social capital (e.g., trust, social harmony, perceived fairness, and sense of belonging).
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Support in Household Chores and Perceived Instrumental Support
This scale measured two aspects of social support: support in household chores and perceived instrumental support.
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Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)
Evaluates symptoms of depressed mood among perinatal women including feelings of anxiousness (including panic) or worry for no good reason, feelings that things have been overwhelming, difficulty sleeping, feeling sad or miserable, as well as thoughts of harming oneself.
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Family Support Scale
Family support was categorized into good (higher than the mean data) and poor (less than the mean data). Developed to reflect emotional, material, and informational support for complementary feeding.
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Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)
Used to measure the severity of depressive symptoms and, in contexts where the scale is clinically validated, screen for possible depression. The recall period is over the last two weeks.
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Kessler Psychological Distress Scale-10 (K-10)
This is a 10-item questionnaire that yields a global measure of distress (eliciting both anxiety and depressive symptoms) that has been validated in various cultural settings.
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Self -Report Questionnaire (SRQ-20)
Self-report measure to detect non-specific psychological distress; subscales include depression/ anxiety, somatic symptoms, reduced vital energy and depressive thoughts.
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-7 (GAD-7)
The Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screen (GAD-7) is a 7-item Likert scale that measures common symptoms of anxiety.
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Social Support Index
Assess the social support fathers and grandmothers provide to mothers. Fathers and grandmothers were asked about support provided, and mothers were asked about support received.
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Oslo Social Support Scale
Assesses relationships with friends, family, and neighbors. Asks for the number of close confidants, the sense of concern from other people, and the relationship with neighbors, with a focus on the accessibility of practical help.
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Multidimensional Scale for Perceived Social Support
Distinguish perceived social support from three sources: family, friends, and significant others.
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Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Social Support Survey
Multidimensional social support survey that assesses four functional social support domains (tangible, emotional/informational, affectionate, and positive social interaction) and also includes a question about the number of close friends and family.
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Duke–UNC Functional Social Support Scale
Multidimensional, functional social support questionnaire that measures perceived support. The original scale by Broadhead et al 1998 was validated with 8 items that measure the quantity of confidant (having someone to share and discuss important matters in life) and affective (being shown love and caring) support.