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2023年11月27日 · “It has changed my life”: unconditional cash transfers and personalized infant feeding support- a feasibility intervention trial among women living with HIV in western Kenya | International Breastfeeding Journal | Full Text. Research. Open access. Published: 27 November 2023.
2024年5月16日 · The World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund recommend exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months of an infant’s life. Although evidence suggests that maintaining breastfeeding ... Sasiwan Suthasmalee and Chadakarn Phaloprakarn. International Breastfeeding Journal 2024 19 :25.
- Conclusions
- Breastfeeding behaviors
- Descriptive statistics
- 1. How was the unconditional cash transfer used?
- 2. What happened when financial insecurity was reduced for women?
- 5. Was the intervention acceptable to women?
- Discussion
- Limitations
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
The Supporting Healthy Mothers intervention has potential to positively impact women across the per-inatal period and beyond by increasing financial security and supporting women to overcome infant feeding chal-lenges and should be assessed in larger trials.
Women self-reported their breastfeeding behaviors via electronic surveys. We posed a variety of direct questions at various timepoints and allowed for explanations to be recorded along with the multiple choice/ select all that apply survey responses.
Frequencies, or means and standard deviations (or medians and interquartile ranges (IQR), if skewed) were calculated to describe food insecurity, depressive symptoms and perceived stress at three timepoints.
Above all and without exception, women used the money to purchase food and water. In addition to these basic needs, most women also reported buying clothes, baby items, or other household items such as mattresses for sleeping or pots for cooking. Using the money for rent, school fees, medical bills, or for trans-portation to the clinic was also men...
“It has changed my life” is how most participants described their experience with Supporting Healthy Mothers. Women explained, the money transfers had spared them from desperate circumstances such as needing to beg for money or food. Financial insecu-rity had been a primary stressor for women—straining relationships and leaving at least two women f...
All women reported that the intervention was good just the way it was delivered, reporting that it helped, it changed their life, that there was nothing negative and/or that they felt supported. All women thought the intervention should continue helping women and/ or be expanded to reach other women (who are sufering). With regards to the infant fe...
Our objective was to assess the feasibility, acceptability and potential impact of a multilevel intervention aimed at addressing financial insecurity and suboptimal infant feeding through an unconditional cash transfer and per-sonalized, professional infant feeding support. Women found the two intervention components highly accept-able and describe...
Given our multi-component intervention and study design, we are unable to assess the lactation support ses-sions and unconditional cash transfer separately. The two components may contribute uniquely to perinatal women’s experiences and future research may be needed to understand the extent to which desired outcomes are impacted by each component. ...
The Supporting Healthy Mothers intervention consisting of unconditional cash transfers and personalized profes-sional infant feeding support was feasible and acceptable. We observed improvements in women’s food insecurity scores, and women reported the intervention positively afected their mental health and infant feeding experi-ences. The Supporti...
We would like to thank the staf of the sub-county hospitals for supporting our study as well as the participants who kindly shared their experiences with us. We would also like to thank Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) for providing ethical oversight and the Director General KEMRI for scientific and administrative support. Authors’ contribu...
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