Nicholas Ngʼandu

Biographic Data

ID4810104
NAMENicholas Ngʼandu
GIVEN NAMESNicholas
FAMILY NAMENgʼandu
SIGNATURENGʼANDU N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
H-INDEX2

  • Maternal and infant health problems after normal childbirth

    A B Ransjö-Arvidson, K Chintu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1998Cited by: 1References: 17

    STUDY OBJECTIVES: The main aim of the study was to discover if a midwife home visiting programme has a significant effect on the prevalence of health problems and breast feeding behaviour of mothers who delivered normally and their healthy fullterm newborn babies, during a period of 42 days after delivery. Another aim was to compare the mothers', the midwife's, and the doctor's findings of prevalence of health problems at the end of the puerperiu…

  • Evaluating the Dimensional Structure of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment-Short form

    Open AccessJohn Ferron, John M Ferron et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1994

    This study explores the dimensional structure of the Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment-Short Form (HOME-SF). Confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate three hypothesized factor structures. Data pertain to 1,250 children up to 2 years old, assessed by the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). All models were found to be unsatisfactory. The global fit indexes were low, solutions were inadmissible, and many of t…

  • A Structural Model for the Developmental Status of Young Children

    Patricia Garrett, John Ferron et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1994Cited by: 2

    Patricia Garrett, John Ferron, Nicholas Ng'Andu, Donna Bryant, Gloria Harbin, A Structural Model for the Developmental Status of Young Children, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 147-163

  • Is Rural Residency a Risk Factor for Childhood Poverty?1

    Open AccessPatricia Garrett, Nicholas Ng''Andu et al.ARTICLERural Sociology1994Cited by: 7References: 14

    The influence of rural variables on young children's poverty status, adjusting for individual and family characteristics, is explored. The literature suggests that specific demographic variables exert an overwhelming influence on children's poverty status. This is confirmed with data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results also suggest that the residential histories of children have consequences for their poverty status, even afte…

  • Parasitic infections, Anaemia and nutritional status of adolescents in rural Zambia

    Nicholas Ngʼandu, N H Ng'anduARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition1992

    A Study of 414 rural primary schoolchildren with high prevalence of undernutrition was conducted to determine the relationships between parasitic infections, anaemia and nutritional status. It was found that the mean values for weight‐for‐age, a measure of undernutrition, decreased sharply with increasing age and they varied significantly with the month when the survey was undertaken. It was also found that anaemia was significantly associated wi…

  • Child growth and duration of breast feeding in urban Zambia

    Nicholas Ngʼandu, N H Ng'andu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1990Cited by: 6

    STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to investigate the relationship between duration of breast feeding and growth of children. DESIGN--The study was a survey of randomly selected clusters of households. SETTING--The study was community based and took place in an urban township with a population of over 43,000 people in Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia. PARTICIPANTS--The sample consisted of 438 children aged 0 to 59 months surveyed between October 1984…