Exploring the feasibility of a culturally tailored infant nutrition intervention: a qualitative study of perspectives from community facilitators and attendees in a pilot randomised controlled trial - Nurture Early for Optimal Nutrition (NEON) in East London.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Appropriate and healthy feeding practices can enhance a child's health, prevent obesity and reduce chronic metabolic disease risks. Given the ethnic variations in feeding practices and metabolic risk, interventions must be community specific. Culturally tailored grassroots interventions targeting infant feeding can induce behavioural changes, mitigating chronic metabolic disease risks in later life.The aim of this study was to explore participant feedback and inform intervention delivery methods within marginalised communities.

Methods

A pilot three-arm cluster randomised controlled trial was conducted in the Tower Hamlets and Newham boroughs of London, involving community participatory learning and action groups. The study recruited 186 South Asian (Indian, Ban

SUBMITTER: Manikam L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11816512 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature