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Name
Edna Kyaruzi

Academic Rank
Lecturer

Department
Educational Psychology and Curriculum Studies (EPCS)

Biography

Biography

Dr. Edna Sosthenes Kyaruzi is a lecturer in the Department of Educational Psychology and Curriculum Studies within the Faculty of Education. She holds a PhD in Education specializes in Educational psychology. She completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Dar es Salaam. Her teaching areas include Educational Psychology, Inclusive Education, Educational Guidance and Counselling, Trauma and Chronic Illness Counselling and  Counselling for special groups and Social Psychology. Her research interests and scholarly works focus on Child Violence and Intervention, Inclusive Education and Disability, Educational Guidance and Counselling and Child Wellbeing.

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Email Address
edna.kyaruzi@duce.ac.tz

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Research Interest

Research Interest
Child Maltreatment and Intervention, Inclusive Education and Disability, Child Wellbeing psychosocial wellbeing and support for vulnerable children

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Projects

Projects
  • Co-PI: Teachers and Parents Collaborative Inquiry (TPC-I): An intervention approach for identifying burdened school children, reducing children's problems in secondary schools and improving school outcomes, March, 2020 to March, 2021.
  • Using either Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine or Artesunate-Amodiaquine in Reducing Malaria Related Morbidities and Improving Cognitive Ability in School-Aged Children in Tanzania (In SMART School) from January 2019-June 2019.
  • Co-PI: Traumatized refugee families in Nyarugusu, Mtendeli and Nduta Refugee camps: Consequences for mental health and psychosocial functioning in children and adults, December, 2017 to August, 2018.
  • Collaborator: Reducing violence against children by implementing the preventive intervention Interaction Competencies with Parents (ICC-P) in Dar es Salaam, April, 2021-April 2022.

Publications

Publications

  • Makenga, G., Baraka, V., Francis, F., Minja, D. T., Gesase, S., Kyaruzi, E., ... & Van Geertruyden, J. P. (2022). Attributable risk factors for asymptomatic malaria and anaemia and their association with cognitive and psychomotor functions in schoolchildren of north-eastern Tanzania. Plos one, 17(5), e0268654.

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  • Kyaruzi, E. (2022). Psychosocial wellbeing of orphaned children in selected primary schools in Tanzania. Heliyon, 8(11).

  • Mabula, N., & Edna, K. (2015). Is It Not Now?: School Counselors' Training in Tanzania Secondary Schools. Journal of Education and Practice, 6(19), 160-169.

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  • Makenga, G., Baraka, V., Francis, F., Nakato, S., Gesase, S., Mtove, G., ... & Lusingu, J. P. (2023). Effectiveness and safety of intermittent preventive treatment with dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine or artesunate–amodiaquine for reducing malaria and related morbidities in schoolchildren in Tanzania: a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Global Health, 11(8), e1277-e1289.

  • Hecker, T., Kyaruzi, E., Borchardt, J., & Scharpf, F. (2022). Factors contributing to violence against children: insights from a multi-informant study among family-triads from three east-African refugee camps. Journal of interpersonal violence, 37(15-16), NP14507-NP14537.

  • Scharpf, F., Masath, F. B., Mkinga, G., Kyaruzi, E., Nkuba, M., Machumu, M., & Hecker, T. (2024). Prevalence of suicidality and associated factors of suicide risk in a representative community sample of families in three East African refugee camps. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 59(2), 245-259.

  • Scharpf, F., Kyaruzi, E., Landolt, M. A., & Hecker, T. (2019). Prevalence and co-existence of morbidity of posttraumatic stress and functional impairment among Burundian refugee children and their parents. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1), 1676005.

  • Mabula, N., & Edna, K. (2015). Is It Not Now?: School Counselors' Training in Tanzania Secondary Schools. Journal of Education and Practice, 6(19), 160-169.