keirnj11/Thesis_MSEPI

The Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Among Adolescent and Young Women in Kenya and Associations in Adulthood Risk Behavior. # Thesis_MSEPI Analysis of the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among adolescent and young women in Kenya, and their associations with adulthood risk behaviors. ## Project Overview This repository contains the analytic workflow for my thesis research on **Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)** among adolescent and young women in Kenya. The project focuses on estimating ACE prevalence and examining how cumulative exposure to ACEs is associated with selected adulthood risk behaviors. The repository includes: - data cleaning and transformation from REDCap exports - recoding of ACE-related survey variables - creation of analytic indicators and composite ACE scores - exploratory data analysis and descriptive summaries - reproducible notebooks for thesis-related analyses This project demonstrates skills in: - data cleaning and transformation in **R** - epidemiologic and public health analysis - survey variable recoding and derived feature creation - exploratory data analysis - reproducible research workflows - communicating applied research findings ## Research Question **What is the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences among adolescent and young women in Kenya, and how are these experiences associated with adulthood risk behaviors?** ## Repository Structure ```text . ├── README.md ├── LICENSE ├── Thesis.Rmd ├── thesis_EDA.Rmd ├── thesis_ETL.qmd ├── Jared_Thesis Proposal with tables_2025-5-20_JP DK.docx └── AGYWPharmacyPrEPRCT-JKExport_DATA_2025-05-28_1636.csv ``` ### Current file roles - `thesis_ETL.qmd` Extract, clean, and transform REDCap export data into an analysis-ready dataset. - `thesis_EDA.Rmd` Perform exploratory analysis, calculate ACE prevalence, derive ACE summary variables, and create descriptive tables. - `Thesis.Rmd` Combined notebook/report for cleaning, recoding, and summarizing the dataset. - `Jared_Thesis Proposal with tables_2025-5-20_JP DK.docx` Thesis proposal and supporting tables. ## Data The project uses R …