Zaina Mchome Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

PhD thesis / book

1. Mchome, Z. (2021). An Ethnography of Child Growth: socio-cultural context and meanings attached to child growth in southeastern Tanzania. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.169360197

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Aloyce, D., Mshana, G., Peter, E., Malibwa, D., Buller, A. M., Mchome, Z., Kapiga, S., &Stöckl, H. (2023). Pathways of romantic jealousy to intimate partner violence in Mwanza, northern Tanzania. Family Relations, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12880

2. Aloyce D, Stöckl H, Malibwa D, Peter E, Mchome Z, Dwarumpudi A, Buller AM, Kapiga S, Mshana G. Men's Reflections on Romantic Jealousy and Intimate Partner Violence in Mwanza, Tanzania. Violence Against Women. 2022 Aug 30:10778012221108421. doi: 10.1177/10778012221108421. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36039538.

3. Gerry, Mshana, Donati Malibwa, Diana Aloyce, Esther Peter, Zaina Mchome, Saidi Kapiga, and Heidi Stöckl. “Same Habitus in New Field? How Mobile Phone Communication Reproduces Masculinities and Gender Inequality in Intimate Relationships in Mwanza, Tanzania.” Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, (May 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075221097936.

4. Annapoorna Dwarumpudi, Gerry Mshana, Diana Aloyce, Esther Peter, Zaina Mchome, Donati Malibwa, Saidi Kapiga& Heidi Stöckl (2022) Coping responses to intimate partner violence: narratives of women in North-west Tanzania, Culture, Health & Sexuality, DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2022.2042738

5. Serpa Pimentel Anna; Mshana, Gerry; Aloyce, Diana; Peters, Esther; Malibwa, Donati; Mchome, Zaina; Dwarumpudi, Annapoorna; Kapiga, Saidi; Stöckl, Heidi (2021). Women’s understanding of economic abuse in North-Western Tanzania. Women's Health, 17,https://doi.org/10.1177/17455065211042180.

6. Mshana, G., Mchome, Z., Aloyce, D. et al. Contested or complementary healing paradigms? Women’s narratives of COVID-19 remedies in Mwanza, Tanzania. J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine 17, 30 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-021-00457-w

7. Zaina Mchome, Gerry Mshana, Esther Peter, Diana Aloyce, Saidi Kapiga, and Heidi Stöckl. 2021. "Women’s Narratives about COVID-19, Preventive Practices and Sources of Information in Northwestern Tanzania" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 10: 5261. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105261.

8. Zaina Mchome, Gerry Mshana, Diana Aloyce, Esther Peter, Donati Malibwa, Saidi Kapiga, and Heidi Stoeckl. “Don’t you think it is violence forcing me to have sex while not happy?” Women’s conceptualization of enjoyable sex and sexual intimate partner violence in Mwanza, Tanzania. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020 October; 17(21), E7937; doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217937.

9. Zaina Mchome, Ajay Bailey, Sepideh Yousefzadeh, and Hinke Haisma. “When I Breastfeed, It Feels as if my Soul Leaves the Body”: Maternal Capabilities for Healthy Child Growth in Rural Southeastern Tanzania. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020 August; 17(17), 6215; doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176215.

10. Zaina Mchome, Ajay Bailey, Flora Kessy, Shrinivas Darak, and Hinke Haisma. “Post-partum sex taboos and child growth in Southeastern Tanzania: implications for child care.” Maternal and Child Nutrition 2020 July; e13048. doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13048.

11. Zaina Mchome, Ajay Bailey, Shrinivas Darak, and Hinke Haisma. “A child may be tall but also stunted”: Conceptualization of and meanings attached to childhood height and short stature in rural Tanzania. Maternal and Child Nutrition 2019 Jul; 15(3):e12769. doi: 10.1111/mcn.12769.

12. Zaina Mchome, Ajay Bailey, Shrinivas Darak, Flora Kessy, and Hinke Haisma. “He usually has what we call normal fevers”: Cultural Perspectives on Healthy Child Growth in Rural Southeastern Tanzania: An ethnographic enquiry. PLoS One2019 Sep 11;14(9): e0222231. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222231.

13. Zaina Mchome, Esther Richards, SooriNnko, John Dusabe, Elizabeth Mapella, and Angela Obasi. “A ‘mystery client’ evaluation of adolescent sexual and reproductive health services in health facilities from two regions in Tanzania.” PLoS One2015 Mar 24;10(3): e0120822. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120822

14. Dusabe John, Zaina Mchome, Soori Nnko, John Changalucha, and Angela Obasi. ““There are bugs in condom”: Tanzania close to community providers’ ability to offer effective adolescent reproductive health services.” The Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2015 Jan;41(1): e2. doi: 10.1136/jfprhc-2014-100915.

15. Dusabe John, Soori Nnko, John Changalucha, Zaina Mchome, Brenda Kitilya, Gregory Payne, Elisabeth Mapella, and Angela Obasi. “Design of a community-based mobile phone text message referral intervention in Tanzania.” Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 2013 Jul;19(5):295-7. doi: 10.1177/1357633X13492291.