Search Results - "Shakya, Holly B."

Associations of spousal communication with contraceptive method use among adolescent wives and their husbands in Niger by Challa, Sneha, Shakya, Holly B, Carter, Nicole, Boyce, Sabrina C, Brooks, Mohamad I, Aliou, Sani, Silverman, Jay G

“…This study aims to examine associations between spousal communication about contraception and ever use of modern contraception, overt modern contraceptive use…”
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Spatial analysis of individual- and village-level sociodemographic characteristics associated with age at marriage among married adolescents in rural Niger by Shakya, Holly B, Weeks, John, Challa, Sneha, Fleming, Paul J, Cislaghi, Beniamino, McDougal, Lotus, Boyce, Sabrina C, Raj, Anita, Silverman, Jay G

“…Niger has the highest prevalence of child marriage in the world. While child marriage in Niger is clearly normative in the sense that it is commonly practiced,…”
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Intimate partner violence norms cluster within households: an observational social network study in rural Honduras by Shakya, Holly B, Hughes, D Alex, Stafford, Derek, Christakis, Nicholas A, Fowler, James H, Silverman, Jay G

“…Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a complex global problem, not only because it is a human rights issue, but also because it is associated with chronic mental…”
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Association of Facebook Use With Compromised Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study by Shakya, Holly B, Christakis, Nicholas A

“…Face-to-face social interactions enhance well-being. With the ubiquity of social media, important questions have arisen about the impact of online social…”
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Spousal discordance on reports of contraceptive communication, contraceptive use, and ideal family size in rural India: a cross-sectional study by Shakya, Holly B, Dasgupta, Anindita, Ghule, Mohan, Battala, Madhusudana, Saggurti, Niranjan, Donta, Balaiah, Nair, Saritha, Silverman, Jay, Raj, Anita

“…Persistent low rates of spacing contraceptive use among young wives in rural India have been implicated in ongoing negative maternal, infant and child health…”
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Do village-level normative and network factors help explain spatial variability in adolescent childbearing in rural Honduras? by Shakya, Holly B., Weeks, John R., Christakis, Nicholas A.

“…Adolescent childbearing rates are higher in Central America than almost anywhere else. However, in this research we discovered that adolescent childbearing…”
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Implications of gendered behaviour and contexts for social mobility in the USA: a nationally representative observational study by Domingue, Benjamin W, Cislaghi, Beniamino, Nagata, Jason M, Shakya, Holly B, Weber, Ann M, Boardman, Jason D, Darmstadt, Gary L, Harris, Kathleen Mullan

“…We constructed measures of an individual's gendered behaviour and their gendered environment to investigate the salience of gender norms during adolescence for…”
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Social network correlates of IPV acceptance in rural Honduras and rural Uganda by Shakya, Holly B., Perkins, Jessica M., Traeger, Margaret, Tsai, Alexander C., Bangsberg, David R., Kakuhikire, Bernard, Christakis, Nicholas A.

“…We investigated the household-level social network correlates of acceptance of intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural, agrarian settings of Honduras and…”
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Gender norms and health: insights from global survey data by Weber, Ann M, Cislaghi, Beniamino, Meausoone, Valerie, Abdalla, Safa, Mejía-Guevara, Iván, Loftus, Pooja, Hallgren, Emma, Seff, Ilana, Stark, Lindsay, Victora, Cesar G, Buffarini, Romina, Barros, Aluísio J D, Domingue, Benjamin W, Bhushan, Devika, Gupta, Ribhav, Nagata, Jason M, Shakya, Holly B, Richter, Linda M, Norris, Shane A, Ngo, Thoai D, Chae, Sophia, Haberland, Nicole, McCarthy, Katharine, Cullen, Mark R, Darmstadt, Gary L, Darmstadt, Gary L, Greene, Margaret Eleanor, Hawkes, Sarah, Heise, Lori, Henry, Sarah, Heymann, Jody, Klugman, Jeni, Levine, Ruth, Raj, Anita, Rao Gupta, Geeta

“…Despite global commitments to achieving gender equality and improving health and wellbeing for all, quantitative data and methods to precisely estimate the…”
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Social network predictors of latrine ownership by Shakya, Holly B., Christakis, Nicholas A., Fowler, James H.

“…Poor sanitation, including the lack of clean functioning toilets, is a major factor contributing to morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases in the…”
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Longitudinal analysis of the impact of economic empowerment on risk for intimate partner violence among married women in rural Maharashtra, India by Raj, Anita, Silverman, Jay G., Klugman, Jeni, Saggurti, Niranjan, Donta, Balaiah, Shakya, Holly B.

“…The purpose of this study was to assess via longitudinal analysis whether women's economic empowerment and financial inclusion predicts incident IPV. This…”
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Longitudinal associations of intimate partner violence attitudes and perpetration: Dyadic couples data from a randomized controlled trial in rural India by Shakya, Holly B., Fleming, Paul, Saggurti, Niranjan, Donta, Balaiah, Silverman, Jay, Raj, Anita

“…We conducted longitudinal analyses examining the associations between intimate partner violence (IPV) attitudes and women's reported IPV in couples (N = 762)…”
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Gender Norms and Weight Control Behaviors in U.S. Adolescents: A Prospective Cohort Study (1994–2002) by Nagata, Jason M., Domingue, Benjamin W., Darmstadt, Gary L., Weber, Ann M., Meausoone, Valerie, Cislaghi, Beniamino, Shakya, Holly B.

“…The aim of this article was to determine the relationship between gender norms and weight control behaviors in U.S. adolescents. We analyzed prospective cohort…”
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Application of an egocentric social network approach to examine changes in social connections following treatment for anxiety and depression: A novel measurement tool for clinical trials research? by Rassaby, Madeleine, Shakya, Holly B., Fowler, James H., Oveis, Christopher, Sieber, William J., Jain, Sonia, Stein, Murray B., Taylor, Charles T.

“…The epidemic of loneliness and social isolation has been recognized as a public health crisis warranting the same prioritization as other public health issues…”
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Association Between Social Network Communities and Health Behavior: An Observational Sociocentric Network Study of Latrine Ownership in Rural India by SHAKYA, Holly B, CHRISTAKIS, Nicholas A, FOWLER, James H

“…We identified communities of interconnected people that might serve as normative reference groups for individual-level behavior related to latrine adoption. We…”
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Amplification of Positivity Treatment for Anxiety and Depression: A Randomized Experimental Therapeutics Trial Targeting Social Reward Sensitivity to Enhance Social Connectedness by Taylor, Charles T, Stein, Murray B, Simmons, Alan N, He, Feng, Oveis, Christopher, Shakya, Holly B, Sieber, William J, Fowler, James H, Jain, Sonia

“…Social disconnection is common and causes significant impairment in anxiety and depressive disorders, and it does not respond sufficiently to available…”
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An exploratory comparison of name generator content: Data from rural India by Shakya, Holly B., Christakis, Nicholas A., Fowler, James H.

“…•Few studies consider name generators in developing country settings or using sociocentric data.•We show how networks differ by name generator using…”
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Affect and well-being similarity among older Indian spouses by Shakya, Holly B.

“…Objectives: Previous work suggests that husbands and wives are likely to share affective states so that depression or happiness in one spouse is predictive of…”
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Self‐comparisons as motivators for healthy behavior by Shakya, Holly B., Christakis, Nicholas A., Fowler, James H.

“…Objective We explored whether individuals' comparison of themselves to their social contacts, specifically feeling fitter or thinner than friends, is a…”
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Innovative methods to analyse the impact of gender norms on adolescent health using global health survey data by Cislaghi, Beniamino, Weber, Ann M., Shakya, Holly B., Abdalla, Safa, Bhatia, Amiya, Domingue, Benjamin W., Mejía-Guevara, Iván, Stark, Lindsay, Seff, Ilana, Richter, Linda M., Baptista Menezes, Ana Maria, Victora, Cesar G., Darmstadt, Gary L.

“…Understanding how gender norms affect health is an important entry point into designing programs and policies to change norms and improve gender equality and…”
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