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    Pregnant women's access to maternal health information and its impact on healthcare utilization behaviour in rural Tanzania by Hilda A. Mwangakala

    Published 2016
    “…Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine rural women s access to maternal health information and its impact on levels of skilled healthcare utilization. …”
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    Maternal self-efficacy in mothers of children with and without clinical feeding problems by Caroline Jordan

    Published 2016
    “…In study 1, thematic analysis of interviews with 10 mothers of children with, and 10 mothers of children without, clinical feeding problems revealed that mothers of children with clinical feeding problems appeared to have less maternal self-efficacy for managing parenting challenges than mothers in the non-clinical group. …”
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    Supplementary information files for Maternal height-standardized prevalence of stunting in 67 low- and middle-income countries by Omar Karlsson, Rockli Kim, Barry Bogin, SV Subramanian

    Published 2021
    “…SPS correlated better than CPS with other population-level measures of child health.Conclusions: Our study suggests that CPS is sensitive to adjustment for maternal height. …”
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    Maternal height-standardized prevalence of stunting in 67 low- and middle-income countries by Omar Karlsson, Rockli Kim, Barry Bogin, SV Subramanian

    Published 2021
    “…SPS correlated better than CPS with other population-level measures of child health. Conclusions: Our study suggests that CPS is sensitive to adjustment for maternal height. …”
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    The PERUSANO study: quantitative dataset by Emily Rousham, Rebecca Pradeilles, Rossina Pareja, Hilary M. Creed-Kanashiro

    Published 2022
    “…In each study area, we purposively selected the principal health centre and one subsidiary health centre. …”
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    The PERUSANO study: questionnaire for quantitative survey by Emily Rousham, Rebecca Pradeilles, Rossina Pareja, Hilary M. Creed-Kanashiro

    Published 2022
    “…In each study area, we purposively selected the principal health centre and one subsidiary health centre. …”
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    The PERUSANO study: Caregivers, health centre and day care centre influences on infant and young child feeding practices: dataset for caregivers by Emily Rousham, Rebecca Pradeilles, Rossina Pareja, Hilary Creed-Kanashiro, Rosario Bartolini

    Published 2022
    “…Participants/key informants were purposefully selected to cover the main roles within the health facilities (health professionals involved in CRED care, nutritionists, primary caregivers of children and community health agents), and CUNAMAS day care services (nursery caregivers, district nursery technical managers, mother guides, and primary caregivers of children).  …”
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    Potential effectiveness of community health strategy to promote exclusive breastfeeding in urban poor settings in Nairobi, Kenya: a quasi-experimental study by Elizabeth W. Kimani-Murage, Shane A. Norris, Martin K. Mutua, Frederick Wekesah, Milka Wanjohi, Nelson Muhia, Peterrock Muriuki, Thaddaeus Egondi, Catherine Kyobutungi, Alex C. Ezeh, Rachel N. Musoke, Stephen T. McGarvey, Nyovani J. Madise, Paula Griffiths

    Published 2016
    “…The Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) study was a cluster randomized trial; the control arm (MIYCN-Control) received standard care involving community health workers (CHWs) visits for counselling on antenatal and postnatal care. …”
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    The PERUSANO study: Caregivers, health centre and day care centre influences on infant and young child feeding practices: dataset for the day care centres (CUNAMAS) by Emily Rousham, Rebecca Pradeilles, Rossina Pareja, Hilary Creed-Kanashiro, Rosario Bartolini

    Published 2022
    “…Participants/key informants were purposefully selected to cover the main roles within the health facilities (health professionals involved in CRED care, nutritionists, primary caregivers of children and community health agents), and CUNAMAS day care services (nursery caregivers, district nursery technical managers, mother guides, and primary caregivers of children).  …”
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    The PERUSANO study: Caregivers, health centre and day care centre influences on infant and young child feeding practices: interview guides for the day care centres (CUNAMAS) by Emily Rousham, Rebecca Pradeilles, Rossina Pareja, Hilary Creed-Kanashiro, Rosario Bartolini

    Published 2022
    “…Participants/key informants were purposefully selected to cover the main roles within the health facilities (health professionals involved in CRED care, nutritionists, primary caregivers of children and community health agents), and CUNAMAS day care services (nursery caregivers, district nursery technical managers, mother guides, and primary caregivers of children).  …”
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    The PERUSANO study: Caregivers, health centre and day care centre influences on infant and young child feeding practices: codebook for analysis for the day care centres (CUNAMAS) by Emily Rousham, Rebecca Pradeilles, Rossina Pareja, Hilary Creed-Kanashiro, Rosario Bartolini

    Published 2022
    “…Participants/key informants were purposefully selected to cover the main roles within the health facilities (health professionals involved in CRED care, nutritionists, primary caregivers of children and community health agents), and CUNAMAS day care services (nursery caregivers, district nursery technical managers, mother guides, and primary caregivers of children).  …”
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    Patterns of BMI development between 10-42 years of age and their determinants in the 1970 British Cohort Study by Russell M. Viner, Silvia Costa, Will Johnson

    Published 2018
    “…Background Mixture modelling is a useful approach to identify sub-groups in a population who share similar trajectories. …”
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    Infant and young children's nutritional health and feeding practices in relation to flooding in Bangladesh by Sophie Goudet

    Published 2019
    “…Insufficient research exists into understanding the mechanisms leading to poor nutritional child health related to flooding in urban slums. Maternal nutritional status associated with infant and child health has been established previously, but rarely in the aftermath of a flood. …”
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    Socioeconomic status and biological factors on the nutritional health of an urban community of Cape Verdean children residing in Portugal by Ana Lucia Vieira Peixoto Andre

    Published 2017
    “…To compare the findings with previous projects conducted in 1993 and 2009 in the same location with Cape Verdean ancestry children and with Portuguese ancestry children (national study conducted in 2009). To determine what early life factors have significant effect on these children's nutritional health. …”
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    Infant feeding practices and postnatal depression of South Asian women living in the United Kingdom by Sayeda Z. Noor

    Published 2005
    “…It is made up of two independent studies - the first one is conducted on the Bangladeshi women living in Loughborough with particular emphasis on infant feeding while the second one is conducted on essentially the Bangladeshi and the Pakistani women living in the Sure Start Westgate area of Newcastle Upon Tyne with particular interest in maternal mental health. …”
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    In rural Gambia, do adolescents have increased nutritional vulnerability compared with adults? by Simon M. Schoenbuchner, Sophie E. Moore, Will Johnson, Mohammed Ngum, Bakary Sonko, Ann Prentice, A.M. Prentice, K.A. Ward

    Published 2018
    “…Given the importance of maternal health for reproductive outcomes and intergenerational health, the results of the study, albeit with limited biomarkers available, indicate adolescent girls are no more compromised than adult women or males from the same population.…”
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    Social value of a nutritional counselling and support program for breastfeeding in urban poor settings, Nairobi by Sophie Goudet, Paula Griffiths, Caroline W. Wainaina, Teresia N Macharia, Frederick Wekesah, Milka Wanjohi, Peterrock Muriuki, Elizabeth W. Kimani-Murage

    Published 2018
    “…Background: In Kenya, poor maternal nutrition, suboptimal infant and young child feeding practices and high levels of malnutrition have been shown among the urban poor. …”
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    The relationship between income-generating activities of women, dietary behaviours and feeding practices of infants and young children in urban Ghana by Jedidah Tetteh

    Published 2022
    “…Maternal income-generating activities (IGAs) play an important role in the health and nutrition of infants and young children. …”
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    Effectiveness of home-based nutritional counselling and support on exclusive breastfeeding in urban poor settings in Nairobi: A cluster randomized controlled trial by Elizabeth W. Kimani-Murage, Paula Griffiths, Frederick Wekesah, Milka Wanjohi, Nelson Muhia, Peterrock Muriuki, Thaddaeus Egondi, Catherine Kyobutungi, Alex C. Ezeh, Stephen T. McGarvey, Rachel N. Musoke, Shane A. Norris, Nyovani J. Madise

    Published 2017
    “…The intervention arm received regular home-based nutritional counselling by CHWs trained on maternal infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) and standard care while the control arm received optimized standard care that included home-based counselling by CHWs trained on primary health (which includes general community nutrition) and maternity care, but were not specifically trained on MIYCN as for the intervention CHVs. …”
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    Socioeconomic inequalities in child growth and development in Sri Lanka compared to other South Asian countries by Damith Chacrawarthige

    Published 2024
    “…It is more likely that the lower prevalence of stunting in Sri Lanka is related to there being fewer mothers belonging to the lowest maternal education groups. Paper 3 showed that an arguably high proportion of the association between SEP and stunting and wasting in Sri Lanka was mediated by household nutrition or caregiving environment. …”
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    Effectiveness of the baby-friendly community initiative on exclusive breastfeeding in Kenya by EW Kimani-Murage, J Kimiywe, AN Mutoro, C Wilunda, FM Wekesah, P Muriuki, BM Mwangi, BM Samburu, NJ Madise, ST McGarvey, Paula Griffiths

    Published 2021
    “…Mothers in the intervention group received standard maternal, infant and young child nutrition counselling, support from trained community health volunteers, health professionals and community and mother support groups, whereas those in the control group received standard counselling only. …”
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