Implementing an early-life nutrition intervention through primary healthcare: staff perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nutrition interventions targeting early childhood can be cost-effective and may provide lifelong, intergenerational benefits. From October 2022 to April 2023 the Nutrition Now (NN) e-learning resource was implemented within Early Childhood Education and Care centres and the Maternal and Child Healthcare Centre (MCHC) in a southern Norwegian municipality. As part of the NN project, the present study aims to explore the MCHC staff's experiences with implementing the NN resource, to gain insights into measures important to scale up digital early-life nutrition interventions.

Methods

Three group interviews were conducted among public health nurses and midwives alongside one individual interview with the department leader of a MCHC in May 2023. An inductive thematic an

SUBMITTER: Osorio NG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11414156 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature