R K N Mwadime

• Nutrition, hygiene, and stimulation education to improve growth, cognitive, language, and motor development among infants in Uganda

  Open Access•Grace K M Muhoozi, Prudence Atukunda et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Nutrition•2017

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  Stunting is associated with impaired cognitive and motor function. The effect of an education intervention including nutrition, stimulation, sanitation, and hygiene on child growth and cognitive/language/motor development, delivered to impoverished mothers in Uganda, was assessed. In a community-based, open cluster-randomized trial, 511 mother/children dyads aged 6-8 months were enrolled to an intervention (n = 263) or control (n = 248) group. Th…

• The principles and practices of nutrition advocacy

  Open Access•David Pelletier, Rukhsana Haider et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Nutrition•2013

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  Advocacy represents an intervention into complex, dynamic and highly contextual socio-political systems, in which strategies and tactics must be adjusted on a continual basis in light of rapidly changing conditions, reactions from actors and feedback. For this reason, the practice of advocacy is often considered more art than science. However, capacities and practices for advocacy can be strengthened by sharing and analysing experiences in varyin…

• Predictors of nutritional status among participants in a rice irrigation scheme in Kenya

  R K N Mwadime, A M Omwega et al.•ARTICLE•Ecology of Food and Nutrition•1996

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  A cross‐sectional household survey of 187 households in, and 168 households from surrounding areas of a rice irrigation scheme in Kenya was carried out in order to study individual and social characteristics associated with childhood malnutrition. The proportion of under‐fives who had wt/age, wt/ht and ht/age indices below minus 2 standard deviations of the WHO‐NCHS reference values was higher among participants in the scheme than among non‐parti…

• Predictors of nutritional status among participants in a rice irrigation scheme in Kenya

  R K N Mwadime, A M Omwega et al.•ARTICLE•Ecology of Food and Nutrition•1996

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  A cross‐sectional household survey of 187 households in, and 168 households from surrounding areas of a rice irrigation scheme in Kenya was carried out in order to study individual and social characteristics associated with childhood malnutrition. The proportion of under‐fives who had wt/age, wt/ht and ht/age indices below minus 2 standard deviations of the WHO‐NCHS reference values was higher among participants in the scheme than among non‐parti…

• The principles and practices of nutrition advocacy

  Open Access•David Pelletier, Rukhsana Haider et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Nutrition•2013

  Añadir item

  Advocacy represents an intervention into complex, dynamic and highly contextual socio-political systems, in which strategies and tactics must be adjusted on a continual basis in light of rapidly changing conditions, reactions from actors and feedback. For this reason, the practice of advocacy is often considered more art than science. However, capacities and practices for advocacy can be strengthened by sharing and analysing experiences in varyin…

• Nutrition, hygiene, and stimulation education to improve growth, cognitive, language, and motor development among infants in Uganda

  Open Access•Grace K M Muhoozi, Prudence Atukunda et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Nutrition•2017

  Añadir item

  Stunting is associated with impaired cognitive and motor function. The effect of an education intervention including nutrition, stimulation, sanitation, and hygiene on child growth and cognitive/language/motor development, delivered to impoverished mothers in Uganda, was assessed. In a community-based, open cluster-randomized trial, 511 mother/children dyads aged 6-8 months were enrolled to an intervention (n = 263) or control (n = 248) group. Th…

Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 obras) · Medicine (3 obras) · Demography (2 obras) · Demography (2 obras) · Environmental health (2 obras) · Anthropometry (1 obras) · Bayley Scales of Infant Development (1 obras) · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (1 obras) · Cognition (1 obras) · Developmental psychology (1 obras)