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Does alleviating poverty affect mothers' depressive symptoms? A quasi-experimental investigation of Mexico's Oportunidades programme

quasi-experimental designs

Ozer EJ, Fernald LCH, Weber A.
GSID: _jal-X-IPz0J
EJ Ozer, LCH Fernald, A Weber… - International journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com

… quasi-experimental design does not benefit from the same strength of causal inference that could be interpreted from an experimental design … using the same analytical methods that confirmed that a quasi-experimental approach showed similar results to a true...

Parallel deficits in linear growth and mental development in low-income Mexican infants in the second year of life

socioeconomic status & related terms (e.g., low income)

Fernald LC, Neufeld LM.
GSID: X6zhul-Au1cJ
LC Fernald, LM Neufeld, LR Barton, L Schnaas… - Public health …, 2006 - cambridge.org

… Socio-economic status (SES) predicts a myriad of child health … For example, children from low-income backgrounds in the … improves the development of term low-birth-weight infants. …

Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries

interventions

Alderman H, Behrman J, Fernald LCH.
GSID: K0nFUMUcX9sJ
PL Engle, LCH Fernald, H Alderman, J Behrman… - The Lancet, 2011 - Elsevier

This report is the second in a Series on early child development in low-income and middle-income countries and assesses the effectiveness of early child development interventions …

Combining pre-school teacher training with parenting education: A cluster-randomized controlled trial

Pre-school

Özler B, Fernald LCH, Kariger P.
GSID: D_vrVotGMKAJ
B Özler, LCH Fernald, P Kariger, C McConnell… - Journal of Development …, 2018 - Elsevier

We used a randomized, controlled study to evaluate a government program in Malawi, which aimed to support child development by improving quality in community-based, informal preschools through teacher training, financial incentives, and group-based parenting support. …

Depressive symptoms are associated with blunted cortisol stress responses in very low-income women

socioeconomic status & related terms (e.g., low income)

Fernald LC, Gertler PJ.
GSID: IpIo8e-_bdEJ
HM Burke, LC Fernald, PJ Gertler… - Psychosomatic …, 2005 - journals.lww.com

… As female gender ( 27,28 ) and low socioeconomic status (SES… (eg, intercepts) and cortisol reactivity (eg, slopes). On the … positive β 04 DEPRESSION i term, which estimates the …

Socioeconomic gradients and child development in a very low income population: evidence from Madagascar

socioeconomic status & related terms (e.g., low income)

Fernald LCH, Weber A, Galasso E.
GSID: H_6Wwg6op1AJ
LCH Fernald, A Weber, E Galasso… - Developmental …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library

… highest and lowest socioeconomic status categories doubled … between two groups (eg highest versus lowest wealth quintiles) … -term measure of anthropometric status, reached its lowest …

Socio-economic status and body mass index in low-income Mexican adults

socioeconomic status & related terms (e.g., low income)

Fernald LCH.
GSID: gElz2RDrng4J
LCH Fernald - Social science & medicine, 2007 - Elsevier

… National data from poorer countries in Latin America, such as Guatemala and Honduras, for example, show higher levels of SES associated with a greater prevalence of obesity; …

Effects of integrated child development and nutrition interventions on child development and nutritional status

Science interventions

Fernald LCH.
GSID: OKKwp2o91XoJ
SM Grantham‐McGregor, LCH Fernald… - Annals of the New …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library

We conducted a systematic review of studies that examined the effect of interventions combining a child development component with a nutrition one; in some cases the nutrition …

Questionnaire anxiety.

Psychological reports

Brown LB, Fernald LD.
PMID: 6079260
Psychol Rep. 1967 Oct;21(2):537-40. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1967.21.2.537.

No abstract available.

Prescription for health: changing primary care practice to foster healthy behaviors.

Annals of family medicine

Cifuentes M, Fernald DH, Green LA, Niebauer LJ, Crabtree BF, Stange KC, Hassmiller SB.
PMID: 16049083
Ann Fam Med. 2005 Jul-Aug;3:S4-11. doi: 10.1370/afm.378.

PURPOSE: The leading causes of premature death in the United States are linked to 4 behaviors: smoking, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and risky alcohol use. We report lessons from 17 exploratory projects funded under Prescription for Health that tested...

Early life growth trajectories and future risk for overweight.

Nutrition & diabetes

Jones-Smith JC, Neufeld LM, Laraia B, Ramakrishnan U, Garcia-Guerra A, Fernald LC.
PMID: 23381665
Nutr Diabetes. 2013 Feb 04;3:e60. doi: 10.1038/nutd.2012.32.

OBJECTIVE: Standard approaches have found that rapid growth during the first 2 years of life is a risk factor for overweight in later childhood. Our objective was to test whether growth velocity, independent of concurrent size, was associated with...

Cluster-randomised controlled trials of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene and nutritional interventions in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: the WASH Benefits study design and rationale.

BMJ open

Arnold BF, Null C, Luby SP, Unicomb L, Stewart CP, Dewey KG, Ahmed T, Ashraf S, Christensen G, Clasen T, Dentz HN, Fernald LC, Haque R, Hubbard AE, Kariger P, Leontsini E, Lin A, Njenga SM, Pickering AJ, Ram PK, Tofail F, Winch PJ, Colford JM.
PMID: 23996605
BMJ Open. 2013 Aug 30;3(8):e003476. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003476.

INTRODUCTION: Enteric infections are common during the first years of life in low-income countries and contribute to growth faltering with long-term impairment of health and development. Water quality, sanitation, handwashing and nutritional interventions can independently reduce enteric infections and...

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