Developing Capacity to Improve Care Transitions for Injury Patients in Tanzania

Locations
Tanzania
Categories
Transitions of Care Research
Current status
Closed for enrollment, No Cost Extension until January 2023

Developing Capacity to Improve Care Transitions for Injury Patients in Tanzania

Project overview

Injuries and their subsequent disability are a global health crisis which have a rippling effect far beyond the individual years into the future. Low and middle income countries suffer this burden disproportionately; with over 90% of all global injuries and 90% of all disability-adjusted life-years lost due to injuries occurring in low and middle income countries. These limited resource settings have not orchestrated coordinated multidisciplinary efforts to support those newly suffering from disability. The goal of this important project was to build capacity to improve the health and quality of life for injury patients, by (1) understanding and addressing the care transition needs for injury patients with and without HIV, and (2) creating a resource-appropriate comprehensive care transitions strategy. Ultimately, we have built the research capacity to qualitatively develop and feasibly test this intervention.

Start Date: 2018-02-01
End Date: 2021-01-31
Grant: 1R21TW010456-01A1

Main Topic

Injury, Disability, Transition of Care

Funders/Sponsors
National Institute of Health (NIH), Fogarty International Center (FIC)
Collaborators
Additional Collaborators
Simon Augustine Mallya Brian Meier Maka Kaino Mwemezi
Learners
Additional Learners
Julia Isaacson Arthi Kozhumam Molly Minnig Armand Zimmerman
Related publications
Tupetz A, Barcenas LK, Isaacson JE, Nickenig Vissoci JR, Gerald V, Kingazi JR, Mushi I, Peter TA, Staton CA, Mmbaga BT, Bettger JP. "I Don't Do Anything; I'm Just Being Taken Care Of": Experiences of Patients and Their Caregivers Transitioning Back into the Community Following Traumatic Injury in Northern Tanzania. Trauma Care (Basel). 2022 Jun;2(2):341-358. doi: 10.3390/traumacare2020028. Epub 2022 Jun 3. PMID: 37274128; PMCID: PMC10238087.
Tupetz, A., Barcenas, L. K., Isaacson, J. E., Vissoci, J. R. N., Gerald, V., Kingazi, J. R., ... & Bettger, J. P. (2022). “I Don’t Do Anything; I’m Just Being Taken Care Of”: Experiences of Patients and Their Caregivers Transitioning Back into the Community Following Traumatic Injury in Northern Tanzania. Trauma Care, 2(2), 341-358.
Joiner, A. P., Tupetz, A., Peter, T. A., Raymond, J., Macha, V. G., Vissoci, J. R. N., & Staton, C. (2022). Barriers to accessing follow up care in post-hospitalized trauma patients in Moshi, Tanzania: A mixed methods study. PLOS Global Public Health, 2(6), e0000277.