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Feeding characteristics of infants in a primary health care clinic in South Africa
Dissertation (MA (Speech-Language Pathology))--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/97479 Feeding characteristics of infants in a primary health care clinic in South Africa Kruger, Esedra Van der Linde, Jeannie nicholefuls@gmail.com Fuls, Nichole UCTD Feeding difficulties Feeding characteristics Oral-motor dysfunction Montreal Children’s Hospital Schedule for Oral Motor Assessment Dissertation (MA (Speech-Language Pathology))--University of Pretoria, 2019. BACKGROUND There is a limited amount of literature on the feeding characteristics and nature of possible feeding difficulties of infants in a primary health care (PHC) in South Africa. OBJECTIVE To describe feeding characteristics and determine the nature of feeding difficulties of infants in a PHC setting in South Africa. METHOD Two hundred infants aged six to 12 months (mean age = 8.54, Standard Deviation = 2.18) received a feeding screening by a speech-language therapist at a well-baby clinic in a semi-urban area using the Montreal Children’s Hospital-Feeding Scale (MCH-FS). A clinical feeding evaluation using the Schedule of Oral Motor Assessment (SOMA) was completed with 13 infants who failed the screen. RESULTS The MCH-FS identified 13 participants with feeding difficulties (6.5%) of which 11 were diagnosed with oral motor dysfunction (OMD) using the SOMA. The 6.5% (n=13) that failed, had mild (n=8;61.5%), moderate (n=2;15.4%), and severe (n=3;23.1%) feeding difficulties, as reported by caregivers using the MCH-FS. The MCH-FS revealed that distraction during mealtimes/following (n=42;21%), food refusal (n=31; 15.5%), caregiver unease about feeding (n=29;14.5%), and problems with vomiting, gagging or spitting (n=28;14%), were characteristics of feeding in this sample. Participants in the age groups six (n=3;27.3%) and 10 months (n=3;27.3%) were prone to OMD. Complementary feeding was introduced appropriately between six and eight months in the majority of the sample (n=122;82%). CONCLUSION The study was the first of its kind to describe the feeding characteristics of a group of infants during the transitional feeding stage in late infancy in South Africa. The findings may be used as a starting point for larger scale studies in a similar setting, investigating the development of future caregiver education and health care professional training programmes regarding transitional feeding. Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology MA (Speech-Language Pathology) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities SDG-02: Zero Hunger SDG-03: Good health and well-being 2024-08-07T08:03:12Z 2024-08-07T08:03:12Z 2020-05 2019-10 Dissertation * A2020 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/97479 en © 2021 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Feeding difficulties Feeding characteristics Oral-motor dysfunction Montreal Children’s Hospital Schedule for Oral Motor Assessment Feeding characteristics of infants in a primary health care clinic in South Africa |
| title | Feeding characteristics of infants in a primary health care clinic in South Africa |
| title_full | Feeding characteristics of infants in a primary health care clinic in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Feeding characteristics of infants in a primary health care clinic in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Feeding characteristics of infants in a primary health care clinic in South Africa |
| title_short | Feeding characteristics of infants in a primary health care clinic in South Africa |
| title_sort | feeding characteristics of infants in a primary health care clinic in south africa |
| topic | UCTD Feeding difficulties Feeding characteristics Oral-motor dysfunction Montreal Children’s Hospital Schedule for Oral Motor Assessment |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/97479 |