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The Health Promoting Schools Project

KENYA, 2009 - 2010
Health and Well-Being (HaW)
African Population and Health research Center
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Identification

IDNO
APHRC-HPS-2009-1.2
Title
The Health Promoting Schools Project
Translated Title
ENGLISH
Country
Name Country code
KENYA KEN
Abstract
The Health Promoting Schools Project aimed to improve the hygienic conditions of a selected number of Korogocho primary schools and to promote the improvement of the healthy behaviors and conditions of the school staff, students, parents and community members.

The project targeted 11 primary schools in Korogocho, including the school staff ( 151 teachers), students (6,196), parents and community members (8,000). Between March 2008 and June 2008, APHRC conducted a need assessment in order to determine the area of intervention. The community leaders and the area chief were made aware of the Project and supported the implementation process. In order to enable the school to run this Project, a health coordinator whol coordinated the program was appointed in each selected school. The coordinator was the chair of a health committee that was established in each school. The committee included teachers, students from upper classes, parents and community members. The Project was approved by the relevant govemmental bodies (the Ministries of Education and Health and the City Council of Nairobi/Education Division), and was granted with ethical approval by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI).

The Project was considered as an integral and complementary part of the Korogocho Upgrading Programme, which was a joint initiative of the Government of Kenya, Government of ltaly and UN- HABITAT. The Korogocho Slum Upgrading Programme sought to upgrade Korogocho Slum in order to improve the living and working conditions of residents.

Version

Version Notes
Version 1.2, November 2014. With anonymized datasets, DOI and Recommended Citation.

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
Korogocho, an urban informal settlement in Nairobi

11 primary schools in Korogocho slums including the school staff (151 Teachers) students (6,196), parents and community (8000)
Unit of Analysis
The units of analysis are the individuals and households
Universe
The study population includes school staff (151 Teachers) students (6,196), parents and community (8000)

Producers and sponsors

Authoring entity/Primary investigators
Agency Name Affiliation
African Population and Health research Center APHRC
Producers
Name Affiliation Role
Osnar Keidar PhD APHRC Co-investigator
Alex Ezeh, PhD APHRC Co-investigator
Catherine Kyobutungi, PhD APHRC Co-investigator
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation Role
UN- HABITAT UN- HABITAT Funder
AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER APHRC Funder
Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
Name Affiliation Role
Participants to the study Korogocho Respondents

Sampling

Response Rate
The study population includes school staff (151 Teachers) students (6,196), parents and community (8000)

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection (YYYY/MM/DD)
Start date End date
2009-11-01 2010-11-01
Time periods (YYYY/MM/DD)
Start date End date
2010-04-19 2011-05-14
Mode of data collection
Face-to-face [f2f]
Supervision
The field supervisors and team leaders were on the field to supervise the data collection. Their work included quality control through spot checks of interviews and scripts, data cleaning, work assignments, follow-up cases, community liaison. Also, field editors were primarily involved into data cleaning. The field co-ordinator, research officer and/or project managers visited the field and field teams regularly to monitor and review progress and support field operations
Type of Research Instrument
The questionnaires used were structured questionnaires named Child questionnaire and Caregiver , The questionnaires were developed in English and were translated into Kiswahili. The questionnaires included the following Sections:

HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONNAIRE : Background, Introduction and consent, Religion gender occupation education ethnicity and age, household amenities, hygiene and sanitation, child morbidity and health practices

Waste disposal, Office and field check details

INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONNAIRE: Background, Introduction and consent, Respondent particulars and other details, Health hygiene and sanitation , Office and field check details



NB: All questionnaires and modules are provided as external resources

Data Processing

Cleaning Operations
Data editing took place at a number of stages throughout the processing, including:

a) Office editing and coding

b) During data entry

c) Structure checking and completeness

d) Secondary editing
Other Processing
Data entry was performed manually at APHRC's headquarters on desktop computers and was done using an in-house built system with a Microsoft Visual Basic and MS SQL softwares.



Data were processed the following steps:



1) Questionnaire reception

2) Office editing and coding

3) Data entry

4) Structure and completeness checking

7) Back up of raw data

8) Export to STATA 10 in 12 files

9) Recoding of variables needed for analysis

10) Structural checking of STATA 12 files

11) Data quality tabulations

12) Production of analysis tabulations

Data access

Contact
Name Affiliation Email URI
Head, Statistics and Surveys Unit APHRC datarequests@aphrc.org http://www.aphrc.org
Conditions
All non-APHRC staff seeking to use data generated at the Center must obtain written approval to use the data from the Director of Research. This form is developed to assess applications for data use and facilitate responsible sharing of data with external partners/collaborators/researchers. By entering into this agreement, the undersigned agrees to use these data only for the purpose for which they were obtained (as outlined on this form) and to abide by the conditions outlined below:

1. Data Ownership: The data remain the property of APHRC; any unauthorized reproduction and sharing of the data is strictly prohibited. The user will, therefore, not release nor permit others to use or release the data to any other person without the written authorization from the Center.

2. Purpose: The provided data must be used for the purpose specified in the Data Request Form; any other use not specified in the form must receive additional or separate authorization.

3. Respondent Identifiers: The Center is committed to protecting the identity of the respondents who provide information in its research. All analytical data sets (both qualitative and quantitative) released by the Data Unit MUST are stripped of respondent identifiers to protect the identity of the respondents. By accepting to use APHRC data, the user is pledging that he/she will not, under any circumstance, regenerate the identifiers or permit others to use the data to learn the identity of any individual, household or community included in any data set.

4. Confidentiality pledge: The user will not use nor permit others to use the data to report any information in the data sets that could identify, directly or by inference, individuals or households.

5. Reporting of errors or inconsistencies: The user will promptly notify the Head of the Statistics and Survey Unit any errors discovered in the data as soon as the errors are discovered.

6. Publications resulting from APHRC data: The Center requires external collaborators to work with APHRC staff on all publications resulting from its data. In order to facilitate this, lead authors should send a detailed concept note of the paper (including the background, rationale, data, analytical methods, and preliminary findings) to the Principle Investigator (or Theme Leader) for the project (with a copy to the Director of Research), who will circulate the abstract to concerned researchers for possible expression of interest in participating in the publication as co-authors. Any exception to the involvement of APHRC staff should be approved by the Director of Research, APHRC.

7. Security: The user will take responsibility for the security of the data by ensuring that the data are used and stored in a secure environment where access is password protected. This will ensure that non-authorized people should not have access to the data.

8. Loss of privilege to use data: In the event that APHRC determines that the data user is in violation of the conditions for using the data, or if the user wishes to cancel this agreement, the user will destroy the data files provided to him/her. APHRC retains the right to revoke this agreement or informs publishers to withhold publication of any work based wholly or in part on its data if the conditions for using the data are violated.

9. Acknowledgement: Any work/reports from this data must acknowledge APHRC as the source of these data. For example, the suggested acknowledgement for NUHDSS data is:

"This research uses livelihoods data collected under the longitudinal Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) since 2006. The NUHDSS is carried out by the African Population and Health Research Center in two slums settlements (Korogocho and Viwandani) in Nairobi City."

Additionally all funders, the study communities that provided the data, and staff who collected and analyzed or processed the data should be acknowledged.

10. Deposit of Reports/Papers: The user should submit electronic and paper copies of all publications generated using APHRC data to the Policy Engagement and Communications Department, with copies to the Director of Research.

11. Change of contact details: The user will promptly inform the Director of Research of any change in your personal details as contained on this data request form.
Citation requirement
African Population and Health research Center, The Health Promoting Schools Project, October 2013. APHRC, Nairobi, Kenya. doi:11239/176-2009-019-1.2

Contacts

Contact
Name Affiliation Email
Head Statistics and Survey Unit APHRC datarequest@aphrc.org

Metadata production

Document ID
APHRC-HPS-2009-1.2
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
African Population and Health research Center APHRC APHRC Research
Date of Production
2013-10-29
Document version
Version 1.2