Factors influencing perceptions of processed baby foods and feeding practices among Indian mothers: a qualitative investigation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore how professionally qualified, working Indian mothers conceptualize healthy foods in general, perceive processed infant and baby foods available commercially and what feeding practices they actually follow with their children at home.

Design

Five focus groups with 8-12 participants were conducted around the participants' conceptualization of healthy food, their perceptions about commercially available processed baby and infant foods and their actual feeding practices that they routinely follow with their children. Discussion transcripts were analyzed using an inductive coding approach.

Setting

India.

Participants

Fifty-one professionally qualified, working women with at least one child under 5 years of age.

Results

Participants agreed

SUBMITTER: Singh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11460025 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature