Knowledge about food classification systems and value attributes provides insight for understanding complementary food choices in Mexican working mothers

Rodriguez-Oliveros, Maria Guadalupe; Bisogni, Carole A.; Frongillo, Edward A.

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2014.08.022

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“…Based on the first phase of the study, as well as the generic FES recommendations, the research team selected five value dimensions that affect caregivers' food decision-making (Pelto & Armar-Klemesu, 2011;Rodriguez-Oliveros, Bisogni, & Frongillo, 2014). The dimensions were healthiness, child acceptance, convenience, modernity, and appeal.…”

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Patterns of cultural consensus and intracultural diversity in Ghanaian complementary feeding practices

Kalra

Pelto

Tawiah

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Maternal & Child Nutrition

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Designing effective interventions to improve infant and young child (IYC) feeding requires knowledge about determinants of current practices, including cultural factors. Current approaches to obtaining and using research on culture tend to assume cultural homogeneity within a population.The purpose of this study was to examine the extent of cultural consensus (homogeneity) in communities where interventions to improve IYC feeding practices are needed to address undernutrition during the period of complementary feeding. A second, related objective was to identify the nature of intracultural variation, if such variation was evident. Selected protocols from the Focused Ethnographic Study for Infant and Young Child Feeding Manual were administered to samples of key informants and caregivers in a peri-urban and a rural area in Brong-Ahafo, Ghana.Cultural domain analysis techniques (free listing, caregiver assessment of culturally significant dimensions, and food ratings on these dimensions), as well as open-ended questions with exploratory probing, were used to obtain data on beliefs and related practices. Results reveal generally high cultural consensus on the 5 dimensions that were assessed (healthiness, appeal, child acceptance, convenience, and modernity) for caregiver decisions and on their ratings of individual foods. However, thematic analysis of caregiver narratives indicates that the meanings and content of the constructs connoted by the dimensions differed widely among individual mothers. These findings suggest that research on cultural factors that affect IYC practices, particularly cultural beliefs, should consider the nature and extent of cultural consensus and intracultural diversity, rather than assuming cultural homogeneity. KEYWORDScaregiver beliefs, cultural domain analysis, cultural homogeneity, focused ethnographic study, Ghana, implementation research

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Patterns of cultural consensus and intracultural diversity in Ghanaian complementary feeding practices

Kalra

Pelto

Tawiah

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Maternal & Child Nutrition

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“…This technique has the advantage of providing an efficient means of examining the cognitive, social, and cultural domains-or categories-by which individuals organize their knowledge, and it does not require literacy. 2,3 As a component of mixed methods research, cultural domain analysis can offer useful insight into the cognitive systems of caregivers by melding quantitative measurements with qualitative interview data.…”

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“…12 It has been particularly useful in nutrition research for illuminating the conceptual frameworks that underpin nutritional knowledge, including emic perspectives that contribute to food decision-making processes. 3,[13][14][15][16][17] As efforts to address malnutrition among infants and young children continue to evolve, pile sorting has emerged as an innovative tool for understanding caregiver decisions about complementary feeding. For example, Rodriguez-Oliveros and colleagues 3 used this technique in their study of complementary feeding in Mexico to understand how mothers perceived local foods.…”

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Results of Applying Cultural Domain Analysis Techniques and Implications for the Design of Complementary Feeding Interventions in Northern Senegal

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“…This paper draws on results from an ethnographic study conducted by PATH and Helite within two northern Senegalese communities as part of an implementation research effort to design a culturally relevant intervention addressing IYC malnutrition. The study used a choice involves a complex network of cognitive, evaluative, cultural, and situational influences (Nestle et al, 1998) has led to a growing body of research that seeks to understand these dynamics-namely, how individuals organize their thinking about food and, consequently, how these thought processes inform food choices (Blake et al, 2007;Blake et al, 2009;Blake, Bisogni, Sobal, Jastran, & Devine, 2008;Devine et al, 2009;Rodriguez-Oliveros, Bisogni, & Frongillo, 2014;Sobal & Bisogni, 2009). In the case of complementary feeding, "food choice" relies heavily on the food decisions of IYC caregivers, although it also involves IYC behaviours that signal acceptance or rejection of foods by children (Black & Aboud, 2011;Engle, Bentley, & Pelto, 2000).…”

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Using cognitive mapping to understand Senegalese infant and young child feeding decisions

Zobrist

Kalra

Pelto

et al. 2017

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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Caregivers make decisions about how to feed their infants and young children based on complex interactions of knowledge, beliefs, and values, as well as assessments of situational determinants, including economic and social constraints and opportunities. Because of the relationship of these factors to the adoption of new feeding behaviours, the development of nutrition interventions for this age group must be grounded in knowledge about the target population. This paper presents the results of a study that used cognitive mapping techniques to gain insight into mothers' knowledge and perceptions of foods for infants and young children and examine their significance for feeding decisions in Saint-Louis, northern Senegal. Guided by mixed-methods protocols from the Focused Ethnographic Study for Infant and Young Child Feeding Manual, in-depth interviews that included qualitative discussions and cognitive mapping techniques were conducted with 46 mothers in rural and peri-urban communities. We explored mothers' perceptions about five dimensions that affect food decision-making-healthiness, convenience, child acceptance, appeal, and modernity-and the relationship of these dimensions to 38 local food items. Data analysis entailed a combination of qualitative thematic analysis and descriptive statistics. In both communities, "healthiness" was the most valued dimension for food decision-making by a large margin, followed by child acceptance, appeal, modernity, and convenience. We explore how different interpretations and definitions of these dimensions, and their relationship to specific local food items, may influence the design and planning of nutrition interventions. The results support the importance of mixed-methods formative research to illuminate the emic perspectives of caregivers.

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Knowledge about food classification systems and value attributes provides insight for understanding complementary food choices in Mexican working mothers

Cited by 20 publications

References 32 publications

Patterns of cultural consensus and intracultural diversity in Ghanaian complementary feeding practices

Patterns of cultural consensus and intracultural diversity in Ghanaian complementary feeding practices

Results of Applying Cultural Domain Analysis Techniques and Implications for the Design of Complementary Feeding Interventions in Northern Senegal

Using cognitive mapping to understand Senegalese infant and young child feeding decisions

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