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A qualitative study exploring perceived barriers to infant feeding and caregiving among adolescent girls and young women in rural Bangladesh

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Title
A qualitative study exploring perceived barriers to infant feeding and caregiving among adolescent girls and young women in rural Bangladesh
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BMC Public Health, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-2115-5
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Kristy M. Hackett, Umme S. Mukta, Chowdhury S. B. Jalal, Daniel W. Sellen

Abstract

Infant feeding and caregiving by adolescent girls and young women in rural Bangladesh remains relatively understudied despite high potential vulnerability of younger mothers and their children due to poverty and high rates of early marriage and childbearing. This key knowledge gap may hamper the effectiveness of maternal, infant and child health interventions not specifically tailored to teenage mothers. This study aimed to narrow this gap by documenting key barriers to optimal infant and young child feeding and caregiving perceived by adolescent girls and young women in rural Bangladesh. Focus group discussions and in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 70 adolescent girls and young women participating in a community-based adolescent empowerment program in two rural regions of northwestern Bangladesh. Participants were stratified into three groups: unmarried, married without child, and married with child(ren). Thematic analysis was performed to elucidate dominant ideas regarding challenges with child feeding and caregiving across participant strata. Participants in all three strata and in both geographical regions attributed actual and anticipated caregiving difficulties to five major contextual factors: early marriage, maternal time allocation conflicts, rural life, short birth intervals, and poverty. Indications are that many girls and young women anticipate difficulties in feeding and caring for their future children from an early age, and often prior to motherhood. Participants articulated both perceived need and unmet demand for additional education in infant and young child feeding, childcare, and family planning techniques. Provision during adolescence of appropriate education, services and financial aid to support best practices for infant feeding and childcare could significantly improve maternal self-efficacy, mental health, nutrition security and young childcare, nutrition and health in rural Bangladesh. Lessons learned can be applied in future programs aimed at supporting adolescent women along a continuum of care.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Indonesia 1 <1%
Rwanda 1 <1%
Unknown 328 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 55 17%
Student > Bachelor 39 12%
Researcher 36 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 26 8%
Other 51 15%
Unknown 94 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 67 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 57 17%
Social Sciences 34 10%
Psychology 15 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 4%
Other 33 10%
Unknown 111 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 August 2015.
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#14,693,880
of 22,821,814 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#10,806
of 14,867 outputs
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#143,805
of 264,425 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#235
of 323 outputs
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