Behaviour change communication for child feeding in social assistance: A scoping review and expert consultation.

ABSTRACT: To increase the effectiveness of social assistance on child nutrition, programmes are increasingly combined with behaviour change communication for improved infant and young child feeding (BCC for IYCF). Unfortunately, there is limited knowledge about which BCC strategies are most effective when combined with social assistance. A systematic scoping review and an expert consultation was conducted to (1) describe the landscape of BCC for IYCF strategies used in social assistance within low- and middle-income countries and (2) to examine the effects of these BCC strategies on IYCF practices and child nutrition. Ten quantitative, three qualitative and four mixed methods studies were reviewed and complemented by 12 expert consultations carried out between August and October 2020. In most of the

SUBMITTER: Barnett I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9218306 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature