Exploring healthcare professionals’ views of the acceptability of delivering interventions to promote healthy infant feeding practices within primary care: a qualitative interview study
posted on 2021-07-13, 08:10authored byElaine C. Toomey, Caragh Flannery, Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Ellinor K. Olander, Catherine B. Hayes, Tony Heffernan, Marita Hennessy, Sheena M. McHugh, Michelle Queally, Patricia M. Kearney, Molly Byrne, Caroline Heary
Objective: Early-life nutrition plays a key role in establishing healthy lifestyles and preventing chronic disease. This study aimed to (1) explore healthcare professionals’ (HCP) opinions on the acceptability of and factors influencing the delivery of interventions to promote healthy infant feeding behaviours within primary care and (2) identify proposed barriers/enablers to delivering such interventions during vaccination visits, to inform the development of a childhood obesity prevention intervention
Funding
Development of a structure identification methodology for nonlinear dynamic systems