Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso
Objective: Though there is a wide array of evidence that women's empowerment is associated with more positive health and nutritional outcomes for women and children, evidence around the relationship with mental health or subjective well-being remains relatively limited. The objective of this pa...
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| author | Jessica Leight Abdoulaye Pedehombga Rasmané Ganaba Aulo Gelli |
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| description | Objective: Though there is a wide array of evidence that women's empowerment is associated with more positive health and nutritional outcomes for women and children, evidence around the relationship with mental health or subjective well-being remains relatively limited. The objective of this paper is to explore this relationship in longitudinal data from rural Burkina Faso. Methods: We analyze the association between empowerment measured using the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), and two additional outcomes of interest: stress (measured using the SRQ-20) and maternal depression (measured using the Edinburgh scale for post-partum depression). The analysis employs both cross-sectional specifications and panel specifications conditional on individual fixed effects. Results: We find evidence of substantial negative correlations between the empowerment score and maternal stress and depression measured using both continuous and binary variables. This relationship seems to be particularly driven by self-efficacy and respect among household members, where higher scores have negative associations with depression and stress that are both large in magnitude and precisely estimated. Conclusion: Enhanced mental health may be another channel for a positive effect of empowerment on women's welfare. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-69c10378192c4658b98ef30d9cb2b9672022-12-28T04:20:10ZengElsevierSSM - Mental Health2666-56032022-12-012100160Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina FasoJessica Leight0Abdoulaye Pedehombga1Rasmané Ganaba2Aulo Gelli3International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA; Corresponding author.AfricSanté, Burkina FasoAfricSanté, Burkina FasoInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USAObjective: Though there is a wide array of evidence that women's empowerment is associated with more positive health and nutritional outcomes for women and children, evidence around the relationship with mental health or subjective well-being remains relatively limited. The objective of this paper is to explore this relationship in longitudinal data from rural Burkina Faso. Methods: We analyze the association between empowerment measured using the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), and two additional outcomes of interest: stress (measured using the SRQ-20) and maternal depression (measured using the Edinburgh scale for post-partum depression). The analysis employs both cross-sectional specifications and panel specifications conditional on individual fixed effects. Results: We find evidence of substantial negative correlations between the empowerment score and maternal stress and depression measured using both continuous and binary variables. This relationship seems to be particularly driven by self-efficacy and respect among household members, where higher scores have negative associations with depression and stress that are both large in magnitude and precisely estimated. Conclusion: Enhanced mental health may be another channel for a positive effect of empowerment on women's welfare.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560322001001Mental healthEmpowermentStressDepression |
| spellingShingle | Jessica Leight Abdoulaye Pedehombga Rasmané Ganaba Aulo Gelli Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso SSM - Mental Health Mental health Empowerment Stress Depression |
| title | Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso |
| title_full | Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso |
| title_fullStr | Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso |
| title_short | Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso |
| title_sort | women s empowerment maternal depression and stress evidence from rural burkina faso |
| topic | Mental health Empowerment Stress Depression |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560322001001 |
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