A novel household water insecurity scale: Procedures and psychometric analysis among postpartum women in western Kenya

Godfred O. Boateng; Shalean M. Collins; Patrick Mbullo; Pauline Wekesa; Maricianah Onono; Torsten B. Neilands; Sera L. Young

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0198591

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A novel household water insecurity scale: Procedures and psychometric analysis among postpartum women in western Kenya

Godfred O. Boateng,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5898-6966

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Shalean M. Collins,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
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Patrick Mbullo,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
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Pauline Wekesa,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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Maricianah Onono,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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Torsten B. Neilands,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Prevention Science, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Sera L. Young

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sera.young@northwestern.edu

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
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A novel household water insecurity scale: Procedures and psychometric analysis among postpartum women in western Kenya

Godfred O. Boateng,
Shalean M. Collins,
Patrick Mbullo,
Pauline Wekesa,
Maricianah Onono,
Torsten B. Neilands,
Sera L. Young

Published: June 8, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198591
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