| Title: |
Understanding the enablers and barriers to appropriate infants and young child feeding practices in India: A systematic review |
| Authors: |
Dhami, MV; Ogbo, FA; Akombi‐inyang, BJ; Torome, R; Agho, KE; Akombi-Inyang, Blessing |
| Source: |
urn:ISSN:2072-6643 ; Nutrients, 13, 3, 1-36 |
| Publisher Information: |
MDPI |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales): UNSWorks |
| Subject Terms: |
32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; 4206 Public Health; 42 Health Sciences; Nutrition; Prevention; Behavioral and Social Science; Pediatric Research Initiative; Breastfeeding; Lactation and Breast Milk; 3.1 Primary prevention interventions to modify behaviours or promote wellbeing; Reproductive health and childbirth; Age Factors; Bottle Feeding; Breast Feeding; Databases; Factual; Diet; Feeding Behavior; Humans; India; Infant; Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; complementary feeding; infant and young child feeding; anzsrc-for: 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; anzsrc-for: 4206 Public Health; anzsrc-for: 42 Health Sciences; anzsrc-for: 0908 Food Sciences; anzsrc-for: 1111 Nutrition and Dietetics; anzsrc-for: 3202 Clinical sciences |
| Description: |
Despite efforts to promote infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, there is no collective review of evidence on IYCF enablers and barriers in India. This review was conducted using 2015 Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta‐Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines. Six computerized bibliographic databases, Scopus, PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Embase, and Ovid MEDLINE, were searched for published studies on factors associated with IYCF practices in India from 1 January 1993, to 30 April 2020. IYCF practices examined were early initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding, continued breastfeeding at one year, introduction to solid semi‐solid or soft foods, minimum dietary diversity, minimum meal frequency, minimum acceptable diet, continued breastfeeding at two years, predominant breastfeeding, and bottle feeding. In total, 6968 articles were retrieved, and 46 studies met the inclusion criteria. The common enablers of IYCF were higher maternal socioeconomic status (SES) and more frequent antenatal care visits (ANC) (≥3). Common barriers to IYCF practices were low SES and less frequent ANC. The review showed that the factors associated with IYCF practices in India are largely modifiable and multi‐factorial. Improving IYCF practices would require the adoption of both facilities‐ and community‐based policy interventions at the subnational and national levels in India. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
https://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_79962; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13030825 |
| DOI: |
10.3390/nu13030825 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_79962; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/4ecf01c3-5728-4bfd-b0bf-8ab0a192fa78/download; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13030825 |
| Rights: |
open access ; https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 ; CC BY ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; free_to_read |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.BE2501A3 |
| Database: |
BASE |