Empowering self-help groups for caregivers of children with disabilities in Kilifi, Kenya: Impacts and their underlying mechanisms

Karen Bunning; Joseph K. Gona; Charles R. Newton; Frances Andrews; Chantelle Blazey; Hannah Ruddock; Jessica Henery; Sally Hartley

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0229851

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Empowering self-help groups for caregivers of children with disabilities in Kilifi, Kenya: Impacts and their underlying mechanisms

Karen Bunning ,

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

* E-mail: k.bunning@uea.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7396-9205

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Joseph K. Gona,

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

Affiliation Centre for Geographic Medicine Research (Coast), Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya
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Charles R. Newton,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Geographic Medicine Research (Coast), Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Frances Andrews ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Frances Andrews, Chantelle Blazey, Hannah Ruddock, Jessica Henery

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Chantelle Blazey ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Frances Andrews, Chantelle Blazey, Hannah Ruddock, Jessica Henery

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Hannah Ruddock ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Frances Andrews, Chantelle Blazey, Hannah Ruddock, Jessica Henery

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Jessica Henery ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Frances Andrews, Chantelle Blazey, Hannah Ruddock, Jessica Henery

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Sally Hartley

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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Empowering self-help groups for caregivers of children with disabilities in Kilifi, Kenya: Impacts and their underlying mechanisms

Karen Bunning,
Joseph K. Gona,
Charles R. Newton,
Frances Andrews,
Chantelle Blazey,
Hannah Ruddock,
Jessica Henery,
Sally Hartley

Published: March 9, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229851

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