Manyara Anthony Muchai, Musotsi Protus
School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Global Health and Ageing Research Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
East Afr Health Res J. 2024;8(2):215-221. doi: 10.24248/eahrj.v8i2.784. Epub 2024 Jun 26.
The prevalence of diabetes is on the rise globally, with likely disproportionate increase in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, diabetes has been acknowledged as one of the top non-communicable diseases needing prevention and control. Research can contribute to diabetes prevention and control: however, the landscape of diabetes research in Kenya remains understudied.
PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Google Scholar and ProQuest were searched for relevant articles. We included studies on humans, reporting on any type of diabetes, conducted in Kenya between 2000 to 2020.
From the search, 983 records were retrieved out of which 102 met the study inclusion criteria. Most studies were facility based (71%) cross sectional (65%) and descriptive (71%) conducted in Nairobi (38%) between 2013-2020 (82%), focused on diabetes control, (71%) and funded by organisations/institutions from high income countries (73%).
Despite the recent increase in research outputs, there is still limited diabetes research being conducted in Kenya necessitating more research in the country and particularly outside Nairobi to inform prevention and control efforts. Specifically, more focus should be given to etiological and intervention studies (which use longitudinal and randomised controlled trial designs), community-based and public health research. Finally, increased local funding for diabetes research is required.
全球糖尿病患病率呈上升趋势，撒哈拉以南非洲地区的增长可能尤为显著。在肯尼亚，糖尿病已被公认为需要预防和控制的主要非传染性疾病之一。研究有助于糖尿病的预防和控制：然而，肯尼亚糖尿病研究的情况仍未得到充分研究。
检索了PubMed、MEDLINE、Scopus、PsycINFO、CINAHL、谷歌学术和ProQuest等数据库以查找相关文章。我们纳入了2000年至2020年在肯尼亚进行的、针对任何类型糖尿病的人体研究报告。
通过检索，共检索到983条记录，其中102条符合研究纳入标准。大多数研究以医疗机构为基础（71%），为横断面研究（65%）且具有描述性（71%），于2013年至2020年期间在内罗毕开展（38%），聚焦于糖尿病控制（71%），且由高收入国家的组织/机构资助（73%）。
尽管近期研究产出有所增加，但肯尼亚开展的糖尿病研究仍然有限，该国需要开展更多研究，尤其是在内罗毕以外地区，为预防和控制工作提供信息。具体而言，应更多关注病因学和干预研究（采用纵向和随机对照试验设计）、基于社区的研究和公共卫生研究。最后，需要增加对糖尿病研究的本地资金投入。
