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Volume XV-2023

Research topics on Mother and Child group
Approximately one-third of the projects focused on maternal and child health

(36.3%), particularly those from mid-career researchers (n = 7, 50%). As shown in Table
3, these sixteen mother-child projects in turn focused on dental health (n = 4), general
health (n = 3), antenatal or pregnancy services (n = 2), and one project each on mental

health, use of antibiotics, smoking, acute respiratory infection in children, Covid-19,
diarrhea, eczema, and tuberculosis.

Table 3 Research topics of mother-child projects. Data are shown as numbers

Topics Junior Researcher Mid-career Researcher Total

Dental health 3 1 4
General health 0 3 3
ANC/Pregnancy services 1 1 2
Antibiotics/AMR 1 0 1
Anxiety 1 0 1
ARI 0 1 1
Covid-19 1 0 1

Diarrhea 1 0 1
Eczema 1 0 1
Tuberculosis 0 1 1
Total 9 7 16

ANC = antenatal care, ARI = Acute Respiratory Infection, AMR = antimicrobial resistance

CRF research topics by disease group

The projects funded by the CRF have focused on more than 12 disease groups
(Table 4). Covid-19 and dental health were the two most common with 13.6% each

(n = 6), while general health issues made up 11.4% (n = 5). Others conditions, which
accounted for 2-4 projects each, include antenatal care or pregnancy, antibiotics,
dengue, tuberculosis, herb, nutrition, sexual health, and stroke. The remaining eight
projects (18.1%) were the only ones to focus on their disease of interest, and covered

eczema, H.pylori, diarrhea, nurse education, epilepsy, hepatitis B, helminths, and
gender violence.

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