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Perceptions of healthcare providers and mothers on management and care of severely wasted children: a qualitative study in Karnataka, India. | LitMetric

Perceptions of healthcare providers and mothers on management and care of severely wasted children: a qualitative study in Karnataka, India.

BMJ Open

Division of Nutrition, St. John's Research Institute, St John's Medical College, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, a recognized research centre of University of Mysore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Published: May 2023

Objectives: To explore perceptions of healthcare providers and mothers of children with severe wasting on the perceived reasons for severe wasting, constraints on the management and barriers to caregiving and care-seeking practices.

Design: In-depth qualitative interviews conducted with healthcare providers and mothers of children with severe wasting.

Setting: Urban and rural locations in Karnataka state, India.

Participants: Healthcare providers (anganwadi workers, accredited social health activists, auxiliary nurse midwives, junior health assistant, medical officers, nutrition counsellors) from public healthcare centres and mothers of children with severe wasting.

Results: Forty-seven participants (27 healthcare providers, 20 mothers) were interviewed. Poverty of households emerged as the underlying systemic factor across all themes that interfered with sustained uptake of any intervention to address severe wasting. Confusion of 'thinness' and shortness of stature as hereditary factors appeared to normalise the condition of wasting. Management of this severe condition emerged as an interdependent phenomenon starting at the home level coupled with sociocultural factors to community intervention services with its supplemental nutrition programme and clinical monitoring with therapeutic interventions through an institutional stay at specialist referral centres. A single-pronged malnutrition alleviation strategy fails due to the complexity of the ground-level problems, as made apparent through respondents' lived experiences. Social stigma, trust issues between caregivers and care-seekers and varying needs and priorities as well as overburdened frontline workers create challenges in communication and effectiveness of services resulting in perpetuation of severe wasting.

Conclusions: To ensure a continuum of care in children with severe wasting, economic and household constraints, coordinated policies across the multidimensional determinants of severe wasting need to be addressed. Context-specific interventions are necessary to bridge communication gaps between healthcare providers and caregivers.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067592DOI Listing

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