ArticleBMJ open2020
Nurture Early for Optimal Nutrition (NEON) programme: qualitative study of drivers of infant feeding and care practices in a British-Bangladeshi population.
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- Parental engagement with complementary feeding information in the United Kingdom: A qualitative evidence synthesis.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- A collaborative approach to develop an intervention to strengthen health visitors' role in prevention of excess weight gain in children.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- Engaging South Asian Communities in the United Kingdom to Explore Infant Feeding Practices and Inform Intervention Development: Application of the REPLACE Approach.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Application of the Behaviour Change Wheel to Optimise Infant Feeding in Bangladeshi and Pakistani Communities in the UK: Co-Development of the Learning About Infant Feeding Together (LIFT) Intervention.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Breastfeeding in Turkey: practices, barriers, and cultural dynamics for global insights.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Economic evaluation: costing participatory learning and action cycles with women's groups to improve feeding, care and dental hygiene for South Asian infants in London.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Developing a community facilitator-led participatory learning and action women's group intervention to improve infant feeding, care and dental hygiene practices in South Asian infants: NEON programme.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022Article
- Participatory learning and action (PLA) to improve health outcomes in high-income settings: a systematic review protocol.BMJ open · 2022Article
- A structured collaborative approach to intervention design using a modified intervention mapping approach: a case study using the Management and Interventions for Asthma (MIA) project for South Asian children.BMC medical research methodology · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo explore optimal infant feeding and care practices and their drivers within the British-Bangladeshi population of East London, UK, as an exemplar to inform development of a tailored, coadapted participatory community intervention.
designQualitative community-based participatory research.
settingCommunity and children's centres and National Health Service settings within Tower Hamlets, London, UK.
participants141 participants completed the community study including: British-Bangladeshi mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers of infants and young children aged 6-23 months, key informants and lay community members from the British-Bangladeshi population of Tower Hamlets, and health professionals working in Tower Hamlets.
results141 participants from all settings and generations identified several infant feeding and care practices and wider socioecological factors that could be targeted to optimise nutritional outcomes. Our modifiable infant feeding and care practices were highlighted: untimely introduction of semi and solid foods, overfeeding, prolonged parent-led feeding and feeding to 'fill the belly'. Wider socioecological determinants were highlighted, categorised here as: (1) society and culture (e.g. equating 'chubby baby' to healthy baby), (2) physical and local environment (e.g. fast food outlets, advertising) and (3) information and awareness (e.g. communication with healthcare professionals around cultural norms).
conclusionsParenting interventions should be codeveloped with communities and tailored to recognise and take account of social and cultural norms and influence from different generations that inform infant feeding and care practices and may be of particular importance for infants from ethnically diverse communities. In addition, UK infant feeding environment requires better regulation of marketing of foods for infants and young children if it is to optimise nutrition in the early years.
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