Andrew J Prendergast

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ID2283003
NOMBREAndrew J Prendergast
NOMBRESAndrew J
APELLIDOPrendergast
FIRMAPRENDERGAST A J
AFILIACIONESQueen Mary University of London
ORCID0000-0001-7904-7992
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS21
TOTAL DE CITAS23
TOTAL COMO AUTOR21
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2014
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • Is health, growth and development impaired in children who are Hepatitis B-exposed but uninfected

    Open AccessSheila F Lumley, Elaine Parker et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    An estimated 254 million people are living with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection worldwide. Many infants are born to mothers with HBV but do not themselves acquire the infection. It is unclear whether this exposure to HBV in early life - without the development of active infection - may be associated with adverse outcomes. We propose the term “HBV-exposed uninfected (HBEU)”, drawing parallels with the HIV field which recognises that chil…

  • Caring for children with SAM

    Open AccessTim Brown, Kusum Datta et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2024

    This paper draws from qualitative research undertaken with the mothers and primary caregivers of children aged under 5 years old and in recovery from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), as well as other community members, across three study sites in Kenya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The paper highlights how nutrition-related stigma is constructed and enacted in complex ways, by multiple actors and across diverse settings. Adopting an intersectional appro…

  • Child play and caregiver support to promote convalescence following severe acute malnutrition in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessJacqueline Kabongo, Louisa Mudawarima et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    Children hospitalised for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) have a high risk of mortality, relapse and rehospitalisation following hospital discharge. Current approaches fail to promote convalescence, or to address the underlying social determinants of SAM, meaning that restoration of long-term health, growth and neurodevelopment is not achieved. Although guidelines recommend play and stimulation to promote recovery, most caregivers are not support…

  • Parental and healthcare provider attitudes towards the Healthy Child Programme in England

    Open AccessTahmid Rahman, Joseph Freer et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Various challenges prevent the HCP from providing equitable and effective care to every child. However, the service was recognised as very valuable by users and providers despite systemic difficulties

  • Convalescing from SAM

    Open AccessTim Brown, Kusum Datta et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024Referencias: 41

    It is widely recognised that children recovering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), remain vulnerable to risk of death following hospital discharge due to a wide range of biological and social factors. In light of this heightened risk, we report here on a qualitative study which aimed to better understand the caring contexts that children recovering from SAM were recuperating in within the high density urban and suburban districts of Harare, Z…

  • Formulation and acceptability of local nutrient‐dense foods for young children

    Open AccessDexter Chagwena, Shamiso Fernando et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2023

    Stunting affects almost one-quarter of children globally, leading to reduced human capacity and increased long-term risk of chronic disease. Despite intensive infant and young child feeding (IYCF) interventions, many children do not meet their requirements for essential nutrients. This study aimed to assess the feasibility of implementing an IYCF intervention utilizing nutrient-dense powders from egg, biofortified sugar beans and Moringa oleifera…

  • Does stunting still matter in high-income countries

    Open AccessJoseph Freer, Joanna Orr et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2023

  • Preventive small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements reduce severe wasting and severe stunting among young children

    Open AccessKathryn G Dewey, David Finch et al.ARTICLE2022Citada por: 4Referencias: 43

    Including SQ-LNSs in preventive interventions to promote healthy child growth and development is likely to reduce rates of severe wasting and stunting. This meta-analysis was registered at www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO as CRD42019146592.

  • The Friendship Bench as a brief psychological intervention with peer support in rural Zimbabwean women

    Open AccessShamiso Fernando, Tim Brown et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2021

    VHW-delivered problem-solving therapy and peer-support was acceptable and showed promising results in this pilot evaluation, leading to quantitative and qualitative improvements in mental health among rural Zimbabwean women. Scale-up of the Friendship Bench in rural areas would help close the treatment gap for common mental disorders

  • Recovery of children following hospitalisation for complicated severe acute malnutrition

    Open AccessMutsa Bwakura-Dangarembizi, Cherlynn Dumbura et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Nutritional recovery and hospital readmission following inpatient management of complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are poorly characterised. We aimed to ascertain patterns and factors associated with hospital readmission, nutritional recovery and morbidity, in children discharged from hospital following management of complicated SAM in Zambia and Zimbabwe over 52-weeks posthospitalization. Multivariable Fine-Gray subdistribution hazard m…

  • Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements for children age 6–24 months

    Open AccessElizabeth L Prado, Charles D Arnold et al.ARTICLE2021

  • Postdischarge interventions for children hospitalized with severe acute malnutrition

    Open AccessChristie CA Noble, Jonathan P Sturgeon et al.ARTICLE2021

  • Characteristics that modify the effect of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation on child growth

    Open AccessKathryn G Dewey, K Ryan Wessells et al.ARTICLE2021Citada por: 19Referencias: 66

  • Effects of improved complementary feeding and improved water, sanitation and hygiene on early child development among HIV-exposed children

    Open AccessJaya Chandna, Robert Ntozini et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Introduction: HIV-exposed uninfected children may be at risk of poor neurodevelopment. We aimed to test the impact of improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) on early child development (ECD) outcomes. Methods: Sanitation Hygiene Infant Nutrition Efficacy was a cluster randomised 2×2 factorial trial in rural Zimbabwe ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01824940). Pregnant women were eligible if they lived…

  • Maternal caregiving capabilities are associated with child linear growth in rural Zimbabwe

    Open AccessJoice Tome, Mduduzi NN Mbuya et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2020

    Between birth and 2 years, children's well-being depends on the quality of care they receive from caregivers, primarily their mothers. We developed a quantitative survey instrument to assess seven psychosocial characteristics of women that determine their caregiving ability ('maternal capabilities': physical health, mental health, decision-making autonomy, social support, mothering self-efficacy, workload and time stress, and gender norm attitude…

  • Associations between Household-Level Exposures and All-Cause Diarrhea and Pathogen-Specific Enteric Infections in Children Enrolled in Five Sentinel Surveillance Studies

    Open AccessJosh M Colston, Abu Syed Golam Faruque et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Diarrheal disease remains a major cause of childhood mortality and morbidity causing poor health and economic outcomes. In low-resource settings, young children are exposed to numerous risk factors for enteric pathogen transmission within their dwellings, though the relative importance of different transmission pathways varies by pathogen species. The objective of this analysis was to model associations between five household-level risk factors-w…

  • Predictors of inpatient mortality among children hospitalized for severe acute malnutrition

    Open AccessRadhini Karunaratne, Jonathan P Sturgeon et al.ARTICLE2020

  • Independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene, and improved complementary feeding, on child stunting and anaemia in rural Zimbabwe

    Open AccessJean H Humphrey, Mduduzi NN Mbuya et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: Child stunting reduces survival and impairs neurodevelopment. We tested the independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), and improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) on stunting and anaemia in in Zimbabwe. METHODS: We did a cluster-randomised, community-based, 2 × 2 factorial trial in two rural districts in Zimbabwe. Clusters were defined as the catchment area of between one and four villag…

  • The implications of three major new trials for the effect of water, sanitation and hygiene on childhood diarrhea and stunting

    Open AccessOliver Cummings, Benjamin F Arnold et al.ARTICLEBMC Medicine2019

    BACKGROUND: Three large new trials of unprecedented scale and cost, which included novel factorial designs, have found no effect of basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions on childhood stunting, and only mixed effects on childhood diarrhea. Arriving at the inception of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, and the bold new target of safely managed water, sanitation and hygiene for all by 2030, these results warrant t…

  • The Wash Benefits and SHINE trials

    Open AccessAmy J Pickering, Clair Null et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2019

    Child stunting is a global problem and is only modestly responsive to dietary interventions. Numerous observational studies have shown that water quality, sanitation, and handwashing (WASH) in a household are strongly associated with linear growth of children living in the same household. We have completed three randomised efficacy trials testing improved household-level WASH with and without improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) on stun…

  • The stunting syndrome in developing countries

    Open AccessAndrew J Prendergast, Jean H HumphreyARTICLEPaediatrics and International…2014

    Linear growth failure is the most common form of undernutrition globally. With an estimated 165 million children below 5 years of age affected, stunting has been identified as a major public health priority, and there are ambitious targets to reduce the prevalence of stunting by 40% between 2010 and 2025. We view this condition as a 'stunting syndrome' in which multiple pathological changes marked by linear growth retardation in early life are as…