Food-based nutrition counselling and education intervention for improved diets of pregnant women in rural Malawi: a qualitative study of factors influencing dietary behaviour change.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We wanted to identify factors related to dietary behavioural change among impoverished pregnant women in the face of nutrition education and counselling, describing what creates an enabling environment and barriers for dietary change.

Design

We used qualitative data from a cluster-randomised maternal education trial and conducted a thematic analysis using a social ecological framework to describe the factors that influenced dietary adherence.

Setting

Mangochi district in rural Malawi.

Participants

We interviewed ten pregnant women and conducted four sets of focus group discussions with twenty-two significant family members (husbands and mothers-in-law) and twelve counsellors.

Results

The participants' experiences showed that the main barriers o

SUBMITTER: Katenga-Kaunda LZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991754 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature