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Frances E. Aboud

Frances E. Aboud

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Psychology

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Overview

Frances E. Aboud is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of medicine, with particular emphasis on pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Their work spans subfields such as nutrition and dietetics, education, safety research, and general health professions.

Aboud's research topics cover areas including child nutrition and water access, infant development and preterm care, global maternal and child health, early childhood education and development, poverty, education, and child welfare, child nutrition and feeding issues, as well as family and disability support research.

The following publication venues frequently feature their work:

  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • Children
  • Global Health Science and Practice
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • The Lancet Global Health

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Aboud include:

  • Jill Luoto
  • Italo López García
  • Maureen M. Black
  • Sk Masum Billah
  • Sayaka Horiuchi

Significant recent papers by Frances E. Aboud include:

  • Group-based parenting interventions to promote child development in rural Kenya: a multi-arm, cluster-randomised community effectiveness trial, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • Father involvement and early child development in a low-resource setting, 2022, Social Science & Medicine
  • Implementation of UNICEF and WHO's care for child development package: Lessons from a global review and key informant interviews, 2023, Frontiers in Public Health
  • An Implementation Evaluation of A Group-Based Parenting Intervention to Promote Early Childhood Development in Rural Kenya, 2021, Frontiers in Public Health
  • Pre-pregnancy iodized salt improved children's cognitive development in randomized trial in Ethiopia, 2020, Maternal and Child Nutrition

Aboud has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Elsevier BV: "Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing: A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya," released in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Breastfeeding and Child Cognitive Development: New Evidence From a Large Randomized Trial

    Michael S. Kramer;Frances Aboud;Elena Mironova;Irina Vanilovich

  • Responsive Feeding Is Embedded in a Theoretical Framework of Responsive Parenting

    Maureen M. Black;Frances E. Aboud

  • The formation of in-group favoritism and out-group prejudice in young children: are they distinct attitudes?

    Frances E. Aboud

  • A Longitudinal Study of White Children's Racial Prejudice as a Social-Cognitive Development.

    Anna Beth Doyle;Frances E. Aboud

  • Cross-race peer relations and friendship quality

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  • Global health and development in early childhood.

    Frances E. Aboud;Aisha K. Yousafzai

  • Race, ethnicity, and culture in child development: contemporary research and future directions.

    Stephen M. Quintana;Frances E. Aboud;Ruth K. Chao;Josefina Contreras-Grau

  • Measuring friendship quality in late adolescents and young adults: McGill Friendship Questionnaires.

    Morton J. Mendelson;Frances E. Aboud

  • Interventions to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination in Children and Adolescents

    Frances E. Aboud;Sheri R. Levy

  • Determinants of friendship selection and quality: Developmental perspectives.

    Frances E. Aboud;Morton J. Mendelson

  • Interventions to reduce prejudice and enhance inclusion and respect for ethnic differences in early childhood: A systematic review

    Frances E. Aboud;Colin Tredoux;Linda R. Tropp;Christia Spears Brown

  • Iodine and Mental Development of Children 5 Years Old and Under: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Karim Bougma;Frances E. Aboud;Kimberly B. Harding;Grace S. Marquis

  • Developmental Patterns in the Flexibility of Children's Ethnic Attitudes

    Anna-Beth Doyle;Jocelyne Beaudet;Frances Aboud

  • Parental and peer influences on children's racial attitudes☆

    Frances E. Aboud;Anna-Beth Doyle

  • The Resolution of Social Conflict between Friends.

    Janice Nelson;Frances E. Aboud

  • Evaluation of an early childhood preschool program in rural Bangladesh

    Frances E. Aboud

  • Challenges to changing health behaviours in developing countries: A critical overview

    Frances E. Aboud;Daisy R. Singla

  • Behaviour change communication targeting four health behaviours in developing countries: a review of change techniques.

    Ciara Briscoe;Frances Aboud

  • The effect of preschool dialogic reading on vocabulary among rural Bangladeshi children

    Aftab Opel;Syeda Saadia Ameer;Frances E. Aboud

  • Does talk of race foster prejudice or tolerance in children

    Frances E. Aboud;Anna Beth Doyle

  • The Devlopment of Prejudice in Childhood and Adolescence

    Frances E. Aboud

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald M. Taylor
Donald M. Taylor McGill University
Kenneth J. Gergen
Kenneth J. Gergen Swarthmore College
Lynn S. Liben
Lynn S. Liben Pennsylvania State University
Blaine Ditto
Blaine Ditto McGill University
Eric Fombonne
Eric Fombonne Oregon Health & Science University
Anna-Beth Doyle
Anna-Beth Doyle Concordia University
Diane Hughes
Diane Hughes New York University
Christia Spears Brown
Christia Spears Brown University of Kentucky
Kim L. Lavoie
Kim L. Lavoie University of Quebec at Montreal
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore

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