The Prenatal Nutrition and Psychosocial Health Outcomes (PreNAPS) study was a two year collaboration between Gulu, Makarere, Cornell, and Tufts Universities. The PreNAPs study's primary goals were: a) to determine the differential impacts of food insecurity on gestational weight gain and prenatal depression, and b) to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the relationship between food insecurity and weight gain and/depression among HIV infected and HIV uninfected pregnant women in Gulu, Northern Uganda.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
403
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Impacts of food insecurity (IFIAS) on gestational weight gain (kg) among pregnant women of mixed HIV status in Gulu, Uganda
Explore the underlying mechanisms and impacts of food insecurity (using the Individuals Food Insecurity Access Scale (IFIAS)) on gestational weight gain (kg) among pregnant women of mixed HIV status in Gulu, Uganda.
Time frame: Approximately 1 year
Impacts of food insecurity on maternal depression among pregnant women of mixed HIV status in Gulu, Uganda.
Explore the underlying mechanisms and impacts of food insecurity on maternal depressive symptoms among pregnant women of mixed HIV status in Gulu, Uganda.
Time frame: Approximately 1 year
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