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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
arts and humanities
Development of a nutritionally adequate and culturally appropriate weaning food in Kwara State, Nigeria: An interdisciplinary approach
Social Science and Medicine, Volume 33, No. 10, Year 1991
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Description
A nutrition education program was undertaken in Kwara State, Nigeria to improve infant feeding practices and nutritional status of weaning-aged children. A series of ethnographic, market survey, epidemiological, dietary, clinical, and communications research studies were implemented to develop a culturally acceptable, yet nutritionally adequate, weaning food. A premise of the project was that the development and introduction of any new weaning food should be based upon ingredients available in the community and to households, at a low cost and with minimum preparation time, and that would be culturally acceptable by mothers for feeding young children. Initially, research was conducted to define the problem in both nutritional and anthropological terms. Data was collected to describe: (1) present patterns of infant feeding and their determinants; and (2) dietary intake and nutritional status of infants in the intervention area. This paper focuses on the process of defining the problem and developing an intervention from an interdisciplinary perspective. The development of the new weaning food, Eko-Ilera, a fortified pap based on the traditional weaning food, is described. © 1991.
Authors & Co-Authors
Bentley, Margaret E.
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dickin, Katherine L.
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Mebrahtu, Saba
United States, Ithaca
Cornell University
Kayode, Bode
Nigeria, Ilorin
University of Ilorin
Oni, Gbolahan A.
Nigeria, Ilorin
University of Ilorin
Verzosa, Cecilia C.
United States, Durham
Fhi 360
Brown, Kenneth H.
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Idowu, Joseph R.
Nigeria, Ilorin
Ministry of Health
Statistics
Citations: 72
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/0277-9536(91)90226-3
ISSN:
02779536
Research Areas
Food Security
Maternal And Child Health
Study Design
Randomised Control Trial
Cross Sectional Study
Ethnographic Study
Study Approach
Qualitative
Quantitative
Study Locations
Nigeria