Thalia Sparling

Dados Biográficos

ID1404969
NOMEThalia Sparling
PRENOMESThalia
SOBRENOMESparling
ASSINATURASPARLING T
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of London
ORCID0000-0002-8071-3232
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2015
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Nutrition-sensitive agriculture programme impacts women’s mental health via food security in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessThalia Sparling, Cesar Cornejo et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Food insecurity and malnutrition, as well as poor mental health, negatively impact millions of people worldwide and can reinforce each other, compounded by gender inequity. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions have the potential to improve these simultaneously. We analysed the impact of a homestead food production (HFP) programme on women's mental health, including pathways through food insecurity, women's empowerment and d…

  • Global Mental Health and Nutrition

    Open AccessThalia Sparling, Bryan Cheng et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Both malnutrition and poor mental health are leading sources of global mortality, disease, and disability. The fields of global food security and nutrition (FSN) and mental health have historically been seen as separate fields of research. Each have undergone substantial transformation, especially from clinical, primary care orientations to wider, sociopolitical approaches to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. In recent years, the trajectorie…

  • Maternal depression is associated with less dietary diversity among rural Nepali children

    Open AccessLaurie C Miller, Sumanta Neupane et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Maternal depression has been associated with adverse child growth and development; less is known about its relation to children's diet. In a cross-sectional study embedded at endline of a longitudinal community development intervention, mothers of 629 children (age 23-66 months) in rural Nepal responded to household and children's diet questionnaires and were screened for depression. Child anthropometry and development (Ages and Stages Questionna…

  • Parental depression and nutrition

    Open AccessR P Adhikari, Ryoko Williamson et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2020

    Objective: The present study aims to assess associations between parental depression and parental and child nutritional status and diets in Nepal. Design: A cross-sectional survey conducted from June to September 2017. Setting: This monitoring survey was conducted in sixteen of forty-two Suaahara intervention districts spanning mountains, hills and plains in Nepal. Multi-stage cluster sampling was used to sample communities in this survey. Partic…

  • Depression among women of reproductive age in rural Bangladesh is linked to food security, diets and nutrition

    Open AccessThalia Sparling, Thalia M Sparling et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2020

    Objective: To quantify the relationship between screening positive for depression and several indicators of the food and nutrition environment in Bangladesh. Design: We used cross-sectional data from the Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition (FAARM) trial in Bangladesh to examine the association of depression in non-peripartum (NPW) and peripartum women (PW) with food and nutrition security using multivariable logistic regress…

  • Assessing the impact of microfinance programming on children

    Open AccessLindsay Stark, Nafessa Kassim et al.ARTICLEDisasters2015Referências: 14

    This paper presents an evaluation of the long-term impact of microfinance programmes on Acehnese children during the post-tsunami recovery. The study, conducted from June to August 2010, examined the impact of microfinance programming six years after the tsunami. The sample consisted of 185 microfinance participants, with a comparison group of 192 individuals who did not participate in microfinance programmes. All respondents were parents, interv…