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The Sociocultural Factors Underlying Latina Mothers’ Infant Feeding Practices

In this study, we examined the sociocultural factors underlying infant feeding practices. We conducted four focus groups with 19 Latina mothers of children 0 to 2 years of age enrolled in Early Head Start programs in the United States over a 1-year period. We found these mothers considered both scie...

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Autores principales: Cheney, Ann M., Nieri, Tanya, Davis, Elizabeth, Prologo, Joe, Valencia, Esmirna, Anderson, Ashaunta T., Widaman, Keith, Reaves, Christina, Sullivan, Greer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30746425
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333393618825253
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author Cheney, Ann M.
Nieri, Tanya
Davis, Elizabeth
Prologo, Joe
Valencia, Esmirna
Anderson, Ashaunta T.
Widaman, Keith
Reaves, Christina
Sullivan, Greer
author_facet Cheney, Ann M.
Nieri, Tanya
Davis, Elizabeth
Prologo, Joe
Valencia, Esmirna
Anderson, Ashaunta T.
Widaman, Keith
Reaves, Christina
Sullivan, Greer
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description In this study, we examined the sociocultural factors underlying infant feeding practices. We conducted four focus groups with 19 Latina mothers of children 0 to 2 years of age enrolled in Early Head Start programs in the United States over a 1-year period. We found these mothers considered both science- and family-based feeding recommendations. However, advice from family was often inconsistent with science- and nutrition-based recommended feeding practices. In the interest of showing respect and preserving harmonious relationships, some mothers accepted family advice instead of recommended practices while others employed strategies to follow recommended practices without offending. Nutrition educators need to consider the intersection of macro, organizational, and community factors with micro-level processes in shaping the implementation of recommended feeding practices within family systems. Nutrition interventions for Latino families should capitalize on Latina mothers’ strategies for navigating multiple information sources while preserving cultural values and family relationships.
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spelling pubmed-63604732019-02-11 The Sociocultural Factors Underlying Latina Mothers’ Infant Feeding Practices Cheney, Ann M. Nieri, Tanya Davis, Elizabeth Prologo, Joe Valencia, Esmirna Anderson, Ashaunta T. Widaman, Keith Reaves, Christina Sullivan, Greer Glob Qual Nurs Res Single-Method Research Article In this study, we examined the sociocultural factors underlying infant feeding practices. We conducted four focus groups with 19 Latina mothers of children 0 to 2 years of age enrolled in Early Head Start programs in the United States over a 1-year period. We found these mothers considered both science- and family-based feeding recommendations. However, advice from family was often inconsistent with science- and nutrition-based recommended feeding practices. In the interest of showing respect and preserving harmonious relationships, some mothers accepted family advice instead of recommended practices while others employed strategies to follow recommended practices without offending. Nutrition educators need to consider the intersection of macro, organizational, and community factors with micro-level processes in shaping the implementation of recommended feeding practices within family systems. Nutrition interventions for Latino families should capitalize on Latina mothers’ strategies for navigating multiple information sources while preserving cultural values and family relationships. SAGE Publications 2019-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6360473/ /pubmed/30746425 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333393618825253 Text en © 2019 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Davis, Elizabeth
Prologo, Joe
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Widaman, Keith
Reaves, Christina
Sullivan, Greer
The Sociocultural Factors Underlying Latina Mothers’ Infant Feeding Practices
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360473/
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