Examination of facilitators and barriers to home-based supplemental feeding with ready-to-use food for underweight children in western Uganda

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 115-129

  Ickes, Scott Bradley ^a   Jilcott, Stephanie B ^b   Myhre, Jennifer A ^c   Adair, Linda S ^d   Thirumurthy, Harsha ^e   Handa, Sudhanshu ^f   Bentley, Margaret E ^d   Ammerman, Alice S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c World Harvest Mission Uganda ^*  (Uganda)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementary feeding; Cultural context; Ethnographic methods; Food intake; Nutritional interventions; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PRESERVATION; HOME; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READY TO USE FOOD; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UGANDA; UNDERWEIGHT;

CAREGIVERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DIETARY FATS; FEMALE; FOOD, FORMULATED; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; SOCIAL FACILITATION; THINNESS; UGANDA; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WEANING;

EID: 83055180144     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2010.00260.x     Document Type: Article

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