Family level | |||
Promoters | Study number | Barriers | Study number |
Father’s occupation | 1 study [6] | Father’s occupation | 1 study [6] |
Mother with secondary or primary education | Mother with poor education | ||
Knowledge on appropriate CFP recommendations and benefits | Father with poor education | 1 study [6] | |
The practice of responsive feeding; applying the principles of psychosocial care during feeding e.g. strategies to overcome poor child appetite. | 1 study [33] | Lack of knowledge of CF | |
Higher number of food groups consumed in maternal diet | Maternal death leading to fostering of child | 1 study [42] | |
Education on health nutrition by health workers | 1 study [35] | Psychosocial care during feeding, Mothers’ strategies to overcome poor child appetite(e.g. force feed child refusing CF). | |
Mothers produced sufficient milk to feed baby for over 6 months | 1 study [35] | Limited engagement of mother with e.g. TV, radio, newspapers. | 1 study [6] |
Mother engages with media sources; newspapers, radio, TV | 1 study [6] | Cultural factors and taboos | |
Child in question is male | Family members influence CFP (Lack of support for appropriate CFP, advice, decision making, family dimensions etc.) | ||
Child’s taste and behavioural response to appropriate CF given (e.g. perceived preference). | 1 study [14] | Higher maternal parity | |
Maternal employment | |||
Perceived /actual inadequacy of Mother’s breast milk supply to breastfeed for 6 months. | |||
Time allocation of mother to household chores /work reduces time to address CFP | |||
Child’s taste and behavioural response to CF given (e.g. refuses/doesn’t cry when certain foods offered) | |||
Illness of parent | |||
Organisational level | |||
Promoters | Study number | Barriers | Study number |
Residence in urban area | Residence in rural area | ||
Interventions (e.g. health and Nutrition educators) advocating and stimulating families to practice WHO recommendations on CFP | 1 study [2] | Bureaucratic policies on IYCF practices and outreach of information on appropriate CFP to public. | 1 study [44] |
Mother having higher number of antenatal check ups | Mothers having no antenatal check-ups | 1 study [6] | |
Higher household food security | Living in areas that flood | ||
Household wealth index rich or richest | Household wealth index poor or poorest. | ||
Use of local officials to promote food already in households to be used as CF | 1 study [14] | Lower household food security | |
Lack of provision of maternity leave | 1 study [44] |