Kénora Chau

ORCID: 0000-0002-9109-3657
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Research Areas
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Healthcare Systems and Practices
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Occupational Health and Performance
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects

Monash University
2025

Université de Lorraine
2013-2024

Inserm
2016-2024

UNESCO
2024

Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité
2024

Centre d'Investigation Clinique Pierre Drouin
2016-2023

Centre Hospitalier Régional et Universitaire de Nancy
2022

Centre de Médecine Préventive
2019

Défaillance Cardiovasculaire Aiguë et Chronique
2018-2019

Générale de Santé
2018

Karin Hardt An Vandebosch Jerald Sadoff Mathieu Le Gars Carla Truyers and 95 more D. Lowson Ilse Van Dromme Johan Vingerhoets Tobias Kamphuis Gert C. Scheper Javier Ruiz‐Guiñazú Saul N. Faust Christoph D. Spinner Hanneke Schuitemaker Johan Van Hoof Macaya Douoguih Frank Struyf Brian T. Garibaldi Timothy E. Albertson Christian Sandrock Janet Lee Mark R. Looney Victor F. Tapson Charles Shey Wiysonge Luis Humberto Anaya Velarde Daniel Backenroth Jisha Bhushanan Boerries Brandenburg Vicky Cárdenas Bohang Chen Fei Chen Polan Chetty Pei-Ling Chu Kimberly L. Cooper Jerome Custers Hilde Delanghe A. Duca Tracy Henrick Jarek Juraszek Catherine Nalpas Monika Peeters José Cirı́aco Pinheiro Sanne Roels Martin Ryser José A. Salas Samantha Santoro Matias Ilse Scheys Pallavi Shetty Georgi Shukarev Jeffrey J. Stoddard Willem Talloen NamPhuong Tran Nathalie Vaissière Elisabeth van Son-Palmen Jiajun Xu Erin Goecker Alexander L. Greninger Keith R. Jerome Pavitra Roychoudhury Simbarashe Takuva J.L. Mendoza Eric D. Achtyes Habibul Ahsan Azhar Alhatemi Nancy A. Allen José Ramón Arribas Ghazaleh Bahrami Lucía Bailón Ali Ahsan Bajwa Jonathan Baker Mira Baron Susana Benet Driss Berdaï Patrick Berger Todd Bertoch Claire Bethune Sybille Bevilacqua Maria Silvia Biagioni Santos Ian Binnian Karen Bisnauthsing Jean‐Marc Boivin Hilde Bollen Sandrine Bonnet Alberto M. Borobia Élisabeth Botelho-Nevers Phil Bright Vianne Britten Claire Brown Amanda Buadi Erik Buntinx Lesley Burgess Larry M. Bush María Rosario Capeding Quito Osuna Carr Amparo Carrasco Mas Hélène Catala Katrina Cathie T S Caudill Fernando Cereto Castro Kénora Chau

10.1016/s1473-3099(22)00506-0 article EN The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2022-09-13

The public health nutrition workforce is well placed to contribute bold climate action; however, tertiary educators are seeking practical examples of how adequately prepare our future workforce. This study examines the responses university students engaged in a co-designed planetary education workshop as part their training. A mixed-methods approach was used collect and interpret student four interactive tasks facilitated during an in-person workshop. Data were analysed using statistical...

10.1017/s1368980024002611 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Public Health Nutrition 2025-01-07

Quality of life (QoL) assessment is important when monitoring over time the recovery stroke-survivors living at home. This study explores associations between QoL and socioeconomic factors, functional impairments self-reported dissatisfaction with received information home-care services among survivors two years after stroke onset. problem remains partially addressed though optimal may improve survivors' QoL.Stroke-survivors admitted to all hospitals in Luxembourg 18 months or more...

10.1186/1471-2377-14-92 article EN cc-by BMC Neurology 2014-04-28

School is a multi-cultural setting where students need social, material, physical, and mental resources to attain school achievement. But they are often lacking, especially for immigrant students. In an early adolescence context, this study assessed risk difficulties among European non-European immigrants the roles of socioeconomic characteristics, physical health, psychological social relationships, living environment, unhealthy behaviours. This cross-sectional included 1,559 middle-school...

10.1186/1471-2458-12-453 article EN cc-by BMC Public Health 2012-06-19

Body mass index assessment using self-reported height and weight (BMIsr) can encounter refusals under/over-reporting while for with measured data (BMIm) be more frequent. This could relate to socioeconomic health-related factors. We explored these issues by investigating numerous potential factors: gender, age, family structure, father's occupation, income, physical/sports activity, subjective perception, school performance, unhealthy behaviours, physical/psychological health, social...

10.1186/1471-2458-13-815 article EN cc-by BMC Public Health 2013-09-08

Suicide attempt (SA) is common in early adolescence and the risk may differ between boys girls nonintact families partly because of socioeconomic, school, health-related difficulties. This study explored gender family disparities role these covariates. Questionnaires were completed by 1,559 middle-school adolescents from north-eastern France including sex, age, socioeconomic factors (family structure, nationality, parents’ education, father’s occupation, income, social support), grade...

10.1155/2014/314521 article EN BioMed Research International 2014-01-01

To develop satisfactorily, adolescents require good health-related quality of life (QOL, including physical health, psychological social relationships and living environment). However, for poorly understood reasons, it is often lacking, especially among immigrants with lower family socioeconomic resources. This study assessed QOL European non-European immigrant the contributions difficulties, unhealthy behaviors, violence. It included 1,559 middle-school from north-eastern France (mean age...

10.3390/ijerph110201694 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2014-01-30

The risk of suicide behaviors in immigrant adolescents varies across countries and remains partly understood. We conducted a study France to examine adolescents' likelihood experiencing ideation the last 12 months (SI) lifetime attempts (SA) compared with their native counterparts, contribution socioeconomic factors school, behavior, health-related difficulties. Questionnaires were completed by 1559 middle-school from north-eastern including various factors, SI, SA, first occurrence over...

10.3390/ijerph13111070 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2016-11-01

Multi-morbidity such as cumulating mental health, behavioral, and school difficulties (consumptions of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, hard drugs, obesity, depressive symptoms, suicide attempts, involvement in violence, low performance) is common early adolescence can be favored by a number socioeconomic factors (gender, age, nationality, family structure, parents’ education, father’ occupation, income). This study assessed the concurrent roles various multi-morbidity defined cumulated (CD)...

10.1186/1475-9276-12-65 article EN cc-by International Journal for Equity in Health 2013-01-01

10.1016/j.aap.2015.04.031 article EN Accident Analysis & Prevention 2015-05-06

Despite considerable efforts, progress in the implementation of sexuality education (SE) has been uneven. This study identified six "positive-deviant" low- and middle-income countries, i.e., countries that had scaled up, sustained enhanced their SE programs when many others—in similar social, cultural economic circumstances—were not able to do so. In other words, they were significantly consistently more successful than norm. Countries shortlisted using a validated framework analyzed three...

10.1080/15546128.2024.2377071 article EN cc-by American Journal of Sexuality Education 2024-08-18

Undiagnosed arterial hypertension is frequent. Whether it associated with gender and the absence of cardiovascular-disease warning signs unknown. Knowledge features undiagnosed-hypertension subjects may help their identification in primary care.To examine whether gender, alcohol consumption, smoking status, health cardiovascular diseases/diabetes, familial history, anti-cholesterol treatment, GP-consultation frequency, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference metabolic measurements were...

10.1093/fampra/cmy075 article EN Family Practice 2018-08-22

We assessed the associations of substance (alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and other illicit drugs) use adolescents with that their family members (father, mother, step-parent, brothers/sisters, grandparents) peers, mediating role school mental difficulties (SMDs) which remained insufficiently addressed.

10.1080/00332747.2024.2303897 article EN Psychiatry 2024-02-20

Background: Aortic stiffness is a feature of arterial aging and associated with dismal cardiovascular prognosis. We examined whether central general adiposity an independent predictor accelerated aortic stiffening 20 years later in initially healthy midlife individuals. Methods: Participants from the STANISLAS cohort study (826 participants aged 30–60 Lorraine region France) underwent clinical biological measurements at baseline (1994–1995) after ≈20 (2011–2016). Adiposity included waist...

10.1097/hjh.0000000000001796 article EN Journal of Hypertension 2018-06-07

ObjectiveSchool-behavior-health difficulties (SBHDs) may alter physical/mental capabilities and consequently increase injury risk during daily activities. This study assessed the associations of potential SBHDs their cumulative number (SBHDcn) with various types among younger adolescents. Methods: The population included 1,559 middle-school adolescents in France (10–18 years, 98% under 16,778 boys 781 girls). They completed a questionnaire at school-year end collecting socioeconomic features...

10.1080/00332747.2023.2238571 article EN Psychiatry 2023-07-31

Families have greatly changed over time and little is known about primary care access barriers for adolescents associated with family type. We assessed disparities in lack of listening treatment explanations (LLTE) by general practitioners (GP), adherence (LTA) GP change the confounding roles socioeconomic factors, school, behaviour health difficulties among 1559 middle-school-aged (9.9-18.8 years old) who completed a questionnaire on sex, age, characteristics (family structure, nationality,...

10.1071/py15159 article EN Australian Journal of Primary Health 2016-08-17

Studies related to a systematic approach for intervention design reduce whole-body vibration (WBV) exposure are scarce. This study presents identifying, selecting and prioritizing safety interventions fulfill that research gap.

10.1080/10803548.2022.2159176 article EN International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics 2022-12-15
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