MKWAWA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Hecker, T., Mkinga, G., Hach, K., Ssentuuwa, R., Machumu, M., Rygaard, N. P., … Scharpf, F. (2022). Testing the psychometric quality of screening tools for the well-being of children and caregivers in alternative care-settings: a multi-informant study with families in Tanzania. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 18(4), 672–685. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450128.2022.2075068

Hecker, T., Mkinga, G., Kartmann, E., Nkuba, M., Hermenau, K, et al. (2022). Sustainability of effects and secondary long-term outcomes: One-year follow-up of a cluster-randomized controlled trial to prevent maltreatment in institutional care. PLOS Global Public Health, 2(5), e0000286. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000286 

Hecker, T., Mkinga, G., Kirika, A., Nkuba, M., Preston, J., Hermenau, K. (2021). Preventing maltreatment in institutional care: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in orphanages in East Africa. Preventive Medicine Reports, 24, 101593. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101593

Hecker, T., Mkinga, G., Ssenyonga, J., & Hermenau, K. (2017). Interaction Competencies with Children (ICC) – An approach for preventing violence, abuse, and neglect in institutional care in Sub-Saharan Africa. In A. V. Rus, S. R. Parris, & E. Stativa (Eds.), Child Maltreatment in Residential Care-History, Research, and Current Practice. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 357-378. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-57990-0_17

Hermenau, K., Kaltenbach, E., Mkinga, G. and Hecker, T. (2015). Improving care quality and preventing maltreatment in institutional care – a feasibility study with caregivers. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 937. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00937 

Mattonet, K., Kabelege, E., Mkinga, G. et al. School-based prevention of teacher and parental violence against children: Study protocol of a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Tanzania. BMC Public Health 24, 2367 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19888-7

Mkinga, G., Kirika, A., Hecker, T. and Hermenau, K (2025) Orphans and other vulnerable children in Tanzanian care institutions: Experiences of maltreatment and mental health problems. Child Protection and Practice, 5 (2025) 100155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100155

Mkinga, G., Kirika, A., Nkuba, M., Simeon Mgode, S., Huth, M. & Hecker, T (2022) Caregiver-specific factors and orphanage-context factors contributing to maltreatment of children in institutional care: A multi-level analysis of 24 orphanages in Tanzania. Developmental Child Welfare, 4 (2), 154-173. DOI: 10.1177/25161032221099979

Scharpf F, Masath FB, Mkinga G, Kyaruzi E, Nkuba M, Machumu, M. & Hecker T. (2023) Prevalence of suicidality and associated factors of suicide risk in a representative community sample of families in three East African refugee camps. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02506-z

Scharpf, F., Kirika, A., Masath, F. B., Mkinga, G., Kyaruzi, E., Nkuba, M.,Machumu, M., & Hecker, T. (2021). Reducing physical and emotional violence by teachers using the intervention Interaction Competencies with Children – for Teachers (ICC-T): study protocol of a multi-country cluster randomized controlled trial in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. BMC Public Health 21, 1930. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11950-y

Scharpf, F., Mkinga, G., Masath, F. B. & Hecker, T. (2021): A socio‑ecological analysis of risk, protective and promotive factors for the mental health of Burundian refugee children living in refugee camps. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 30 (10), 1651-1662. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01649-7 

Scharpf, F., Mkinga, G., Neuner, F., Machumu, M. & Hecker, T. (2021). Fuel to the fire: The escalating interplay of attachment and maltreatment in the transgenerational transmission of psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 33 (4), 1308–1321. DOI: 10.1017/S0954579420000516