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A mixed-methods longitudinal study of Marshallese infant feeding beliefs and experiences in the United States: a study protocol

BACKGROUND: Arkansas has the largest population of Marshallese Pacific Islanders residing in the continental United States. Marshallese are disproportionately burdened by poorer maternal and infant health outcomes. Exclusive breastfeeding can prevent or help mitigate maternal and infant health dispa...

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Autores principales: Ayers, Britni L., Bogulski, Cari A., Haggard-Duff, Lauren, Selig, James P., McElfish, Pearl A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8401343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34454559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-021-00412-1
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author Ayers, Britni L.
Bogulski, Cari A.
Haggard-Duff, Lauren
Selig, James P.
McElfish, Pearl A.
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description BACKGROUND: Arkansas has the largest population of Marshallese Pacific Islanders residing in the continental United States. Marshallese are disproportionately burdened by poorer maternal and infant health outcomes. Exclusive breastfeeding can prevent or help mitigate maternal and infant health disparities. However, exclusive breastfeeding among United States Marshallese communities remains disproportionately low, and the reasons are not well documented. This paper describes the protocol of a mixed-methods concurrent triangulation longitudinal study designed to explore the beliefs and experiences that serve as barriers and/or facilitators to exclusive breastfeeding intention, initiation, and duration among Marshallese mothers in northwest Arkansas. METHODS: The mixed-methods design collects qualitative and quantitative data during simultaneous data collection events, at third trimester, six weeks postpartum, and six months postpartum. Quantitative and qualitative data will be analyzed separately and then synthesized during the interpretation phase. The research team will disseminate results to study participants, research stakeholders, the broader Marshallese community, and fellow researchers. DISCUSSION: Findings and results will be presented in subsequent manuscripts upon completion of the study. This study will be an important first step to better understand beliefs and experiences to exclusive breastfeeding intention, initiation, and duration in this community and will inform tools and interventions to help improve health outcomes. The study will also aid in filling the gap in research and providing essential information on the infant feeding beliefs and barriers among a Marshallese community in Arkansas. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13006-021-00412-1.
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spelling pubmed-84013432021-08-30 A mixed-methods longitudinal study of Marshallese infant feeding beliefs and experiences in the United States: a study protocol Ayers, Britni L. Bogulski, Cari A. Haggard-Duff, Lauren Selig, James P. McElfish, Pearl A. Int Breastfeed J Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Arkansas has the largest population of Marshallese Pacific Islanders residing in the continental United States. Marshallese are disproportionately burdened by poorer maternal and infant health outcomes. Exclusive breastfeeding can prevent or help mitigate maternal and infant health disparities. However, exclusive breastfeeding among United States Marshallese communities remains disproportionately low, and the reasons are not well documented. This paper describes the protocol of a mixed-methods concurrent triangulation longitudinal study designed to explore the beliefs and experiences that serve as barriers and/or facilitators to exclusive breastfeeding intention, initiation, and duration among Marshallese mothers in northwest Arkansas. METHODS: The mixed-methods design collects qualitative and quantitative data during simultaneous data collection events, at third trimester, six weeks postpartum, and six months postpartum. Quantitative and qualitative data will be analyzed separately and then synthesized during the interpretation phase. The research team will disseminate results to study participants, research stakeholders, the broader Marshallese community, and fellow researchers. DISCUSSION: Findings and results will be presented in subsequent manuscripts upon completion of the study. This study will be an important first step to better understand beliefs and experiences to exclusive breastfeeding intention, initiation, and duration in this community and will inform tools and interventions to help improve health outcomes. The study will also aid in filling the gap in research and providing essential information on the infant feeding beliefs and barriers among a Marshallese community in Arkansas. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13006-021-00412-1. BioMed Central 2021-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8401343/ /pubmed/34454559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-021-00412-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Ayers, Britni L.
Bogulski, Cari A.
Haggard-Duff, Lauren
Selig, James P.
McElfish, Pearl A.
A mixed-methods longitudinal study of Marshallese infant feeding beliefs and experiences in the United States: a study protocol
title A mixed-methods longitudinal study of Marshallese infant feeding beliefs and experiences in the United States: a study protocol
title_full A mixed-methods longitudinal study of Marshallese infant feeding beliefs and experiences in the United States: a study protocol
title_fullStr A mixed-methods longitudinal study of Marshallese infant feeding beliefs and experiences in the United States: a study protocol
title_full_unstemmed A mixed-methods longitudinal study of Marshallese infant feeding beliefs and experiences in the United States: a study protocol
title_short A mixed-methods longitudinal study of Marshallese infant feeding beliefs and experiences in the United States: a study protocol
title_sort mixed-methods longitudinal study of marshallese infant feeding beliefs and experiences in the united states: a study protocol
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8401343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34454559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-021-00412-1
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