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Barriers to Infant and Child-feeding Practices: A Qualitative Study of Primary Caregivers in Rural Uganda
The purpose of this study was to explore the barriers to the use of appropriate infant and young child-feeding practices by primary caregivers living in a rural Ugandan district. A community-based qualitative design and focus group discussions were used for collecting data from primary caregivers of...
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International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4438654/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25995727 |
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author | Nankumbi, Joyce Muliira, Joshua K. |
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description | The purpose of this study was to explore the barriers to the use of appropriate infant and young child-feeding practices by primary caregivers living in a rural Ugandan district. A community-based qualitative design and focus group discussions were used for collecting data from primary caregivers of children aged 0 to 24 month(s). On an average, each of the four focus group discussions had 11 participants. The focus group discussions were conducted using a structured interview guide and were tape-recorded. The recorded data were later transcribed and analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis techniques. All the participants were females, and the majority had low levels of education and at least one child in the age-group of 0-24 month(s) in their household. The findings show that the main barriers to the use of appropriate infant and young child-feeding practices fall under four themes: caregiver's knowledge about breastfeeding, caregiver's knowledge about complimentary feeding, influence of culture custodians on the caregivers, and patterns and burden of other responsibilities the caregivers have in the household. The four categories of barriers imply that there are various missed opportunities to implement hospital and community-based interventions to improve infant and young child-feeding practices, which is one way of preventing malnutrition. Therefore, in rural areas of Uganda, the major factors responsible for the high prevalence of malnutrition among infants and children are still those related to knowledge, culture, and social status of the primary caregivers. |
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spelling | pubmed-44386542015-05-20 Barriers to Infant and Child-feeding Practices: A Qualitative Study of Primary Caregivers in Rural Uganda Nankumbi, Joyce Muliira, Joshua K. J Health Popul Nutr Original Papers The purpose of this study was to explore the barriers to the use of appropriate infant and young child-feeding practices by primary caregivers living in a rural Ugandan district. A community-based qualitative design and focus group discussions were used for collecting data from primary caregivers of children aged 0 to 24 month(s). On an average, each of the four focus group discussions had 11 participants. The focus group discussions were conducted using a structured interview guide and were tape-recorded. The recorded data were later transcribed and analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis techniques. All the participants were females, and the majority had low levels of education and at least one child in the age-group of 0-24 month(s) in their household. The findings show that the main barriers to the use of appropriate infant and young child-feeding practices fall under four themes: caregiver's knowledge about breastfeeding, caregiver's knowledge about complimentary feeding, influence of culture custodians on the caregivers, and patterns and burden of other responsibilities the caregivers have in the household. The four categories of barriers imply that there are various missed opportunities to implement hospital and community-based interventions to improve infant and young child-feeding practices, which is one way of preventing malnutrition. Therefore, in rural areas of Uganda, the major factors responsible for the high prevalence of malnutrition among infants and children are still those related to knowledge, culture, and social status of the primary caregivers. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2015-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4438654/ /pubmed/25995727 Text en © INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH, BANGLADESH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Papers Nankumbi, Joyce Muliira, Joshua K. Barriers to Infant and Child-feeding Practices: A Qualitative Study of Primary Caregivers in Rural Uganda |
title | Barriers to Infant and Child-feeding Practices: A Qualitative Study of Primary Caregivers in Rural Uganda |
title_full | Barriers to Infant and Child-feeding Practices: A Qualitative Study of Primary Caregivers in Rural Uganda |
title_fullStr | Barriers to Infant and Child-feeding Practices: A Qualitative Study of Primary Caregivers in Rural Uganda |
title_full_unstemmed | Barriers to Infant and Child-feeding Practices: A Qualitative Study of Primary Caregivers in Rural Uganda |
title_short | Barriers to Infant and Child-feeding Practices: A Qualitative Study of Primary Caregivers in Rural Uganda |
title_sort | barriers to infant and child-feeding practices: a qualitative study of primary caregivers in rural uganda |
topic | Original Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4438654/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25995727 |
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