Community approval required for periconceptional adolescent adherence to weekly iron and/or folic acid supplementation: A qualitative study in rural Burkina Faso

Reproductive Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Compaoré, Adélaïde ^a   Gies, Sabine ^b,c   Brabin, Bernard ^d,f   Tinto, Halidou ^a   Brabin, Loretta ^e  

^a Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé   (Burkina Faso)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c Medical Mission Institute   (Germany)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adherence; Adolescents; Burkina Faso; Iron supplementation; Non pregnant; Pregnant; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; FOLIC ACID; IRON;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NULLIPARA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL ATTENDANCE; YOUNG ADULT; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADOLESCENT NUTRITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DRUG THERAPY; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON INTAKE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RURAL HEALTH; TRANSCULTURAL CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BURKINA FASO; COHORT STUDIES; CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOLIC ACID; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IRON, DIETARY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 85043761474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12978-018-0490-y     Document Type: Article

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