scholarly journals Eating difficulties in early childhood and its relation to parental feeding practices / Dificultades de alimentación en la primera infancia y su relación con las prácticas parentales de alimentación

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-207
Author(s):  
Laura Andrea Castaño Tobón ◽  
Mariana Molano Vargas ◽  
María Teresa Varela Arévalo
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
El Niño ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Child Feeding ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Feeding Difficulties ◽  
Early Childhood Health ◽  
Parental Feeding

Abstract The objectives of this study were to describe the feeding practices of parents who have children in early childhood, as well as to compare those parents of children with and without feeding difficulties (FD). Participants were 93 fathers/mothers between 20 and 44 years old, 33 of them had children with FD. The fathers/mothers completed the feeding section of the Parenting Practices Questionnaire to promote Early Childhood Health Habits (PCHS, for its acronym in Spanish), which assess responsive, non-responsive, indulgent and negligent practices; in addition, they answered eight questions aimed at investigating the context of child feeding. Most of parents reported using responsive practices (monitoring, setting limits and modeling); however, parents of children with FD also highlighted the use of non-responsive practices (e.g., pressure or nagging their children to eat), indulgences (e.g., feeding the child in the place the child chooses) and negligent (e.g. leave the child alone at the time of eating). The results base that interaction in feeding situations is as important as the quality and quantity of food consumed by the child, making it possible to visualize the problem of FD in early childhood.Resumen Los objetivos de este estudio fueron describir las prácticas de alimentación de padres que tienen hijos en la primera infancia, así como comparar entre aquellos padres de hijos con y sin dificultades de alimentación (DDA). Participaron 93 padres/madres de entre 20 y 44 años de edad, 33 de los cuales tenían hijos con DDA. Los padres/madres completaron el apartado de alimentación del Cuestionario de Prácticas de Crianza para promover Hábitos de Salud en la primera infancia (PCHS), que evalúa las prácticas responsivas, no responsivas, indulgentes y negligentes; además de ocho preguntas dirigidas a indagar el contexto de alimentación del niño. La mayoría de los padres reportó utilizar prácticas responsivas (monitoreo, establecimiento de límites y modelamiento); sin embargo, en los padres de niños con DDA además destacó el empleo de prácticas no responsivas (e.g., presionar o regañar al niño para que coma), indulgentes (e.g., darle la comida en el lugar que el niño elija) y negligentes (e.g. dejar solo al niño al momento de comer). Los resultados fundamentan que la interacción en las situaciones de alimentación es tan importante como la calidad y cantidad de alimentos que el niño consume, permitiendo visibilizar la problemática de las DDA en la primera infancia. 

scholarly journals Maternal Time Poverty Drives Suboptimal Complementary Feeding Practices in the El Niño Affected Eastern Ethiopia Community

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asnake Ararsa Irenso ◽  
Shiferaw Letta ◽  
Addisu Sebsibe ◽  
Abiyot Asfaw ◽  
Gudina Egata ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
El Niño ◽  
Time Allocation ◽  
Complementary Feeding ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Child Feeding ◽  
Eastern Ethiopia ◽  
Time Poverty ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: Ethiopia is affected by recurrent drought and food insecurity crises including from El Niño, the climatic change that lasted from mid-2014 through 2016 and caused the failure of the rainy seasons in eastern Ethiopia. The event is expected to have a detrimental effect on the already suboptimal complementary feeding practices. However, there is a lack of research on how climatic events affect child feeding. Hence, the study was intended to explore how El Niño influenced the complementary feeding practices and experiences of the food-insecure community of eastern Ethiopia from March to September 2016.Methods: This study was an exploratory qualitative study that used a phenomenological approach. The study was conducted in the food-insecure setting of Gale Mirga kebele of Kersa district. The study involved 11 focus group discussion (FGD) comprising a total of 76 participants, including three FGDs with mothers, three FGDs with Health Development Army leaders (HDA); two FGDs with fathers, two FGDs with traditional birth attendants, and one FGD with religious leaders. The Atlas.ti software was used for coding and thematic analysis.Results: El Niño aggravated failed crop and livestock loss were reported to directly reduce the quantity and quality of food available to feed young children, resulting in more frequent skipping of meals, less animal protein sources and over-reliance of cereal-based food. The impact of El Nino on livelihoods often resulted in both parents working away from home with child feeding delegated to older children or other family members. Maternal absence from home was a barrier to participation in community-based nutrition activities. Short birth spacing and low fathers’ involvement in feeding also reduced the time available to mothers to devote to child feeding.Conclusions: The maternal suboptimal time allocation to child feeding is central to the poor complementary feeding practices in El Niño stricken food-insecure settings of Eastern Ethiopia. The women should be supported with climate-resilient livelihoods options in their villages, thus allowing them both to feed their children and attend nutrition education sessions with HDA. Such sessions should focus on food processing demonstrations to improve the nutritional quality of plant-based complementary foods.

scholarly journals Mothers' Care: Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Bellés-Obrero ◽  
Antonio Cabrales ◽  
Sergi Jimenez-Martin ◽  
Judit Vall-Castello
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Parental Investments ◽  
Early Childhood Health

scholarly journals Effect of Improving Housing Conditions on Early Childhood Health in Rural Sudan

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Obbey A. Elamin
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Housing Sector ◽  
Childhood Health ◽  
Under Five ◽  
Under Five Children ◽  
Early Childhood Health ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Piped Water

Improving housing sector in rural areas is important to improve health status of under-five children. Propensity score matching using nonparametric kernel estimates is used to examine the effect of improving rural structure of houses in rural Sudan and provide them with services like access to clean piped water, sanitation on improving under-five children health. The prevalence of diarrhoea and cough in rural Sudan are used as measures of health outcome and data from the Sudan Household Health Survey in 2010 is used. Our results show that providing houses with piped water can reduce prevalence of diarrhoea and cough by 22 and 24 percentage points, respectively. Gas cooking fuel reduces the prevalence rates by 26 and 29 percentage points, respectively. Construction materials of walls have strong impact on reducing the prevalence of both illnesses. We recommend that the quality of piped water should be observed and maintained in good standard to ensure that clean water is supplies to the household sector. Developing the housing sector in the rural has many advantages in improving early childhood health in Sudan and it should be one of the priorities of the government.

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