Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Infant feeding practices and maternal work in a context of rapid industrialization

博士论文研究改进补助金：快速工业化背景下的婴儿喂养实践和孕产妇工作

• 批准号: 1324070
• 负责人: Andrea Wiley
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-15 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1324070&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Improvement; Grant

Adequate nutrition during the first two years of life is essential for proper growth/development and health. However, mothers must deal with competing demands of work and infant feeding, and the trade-offs they make between these demands have the potential to affect their own and their child's life history parameters. India is currently experiencing urbanization and the rise of professional opportunities for women that may alter IYCF practices, which heretofore have included extensive breastfeeding, and these in turn may have important impacts on infant growth and health. This project will investigate infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices and their relationship with maternal work in urban and rural India. To examine the trade-offs between IYCF practices and maternal economic activities, this study will employ a bio-cultural approach and a life history framework. This 12-month longitudinal study will examine the relationship between maternal work and the duration of exclusive breastfeeding, the quality and timing of the introduction of complementary foods, and ultimately how these are related to infant growth parameters and health. Furthermore, this study will also include ethnographic information on cultural norms and beliefs regarding IYCF practices, as well as allo-maternal care in a rapidly industrializing country and the relationship to IYCF practices. Examining maternal economic activities and IYCF practices allow for a better understanding of how to quantify the costs and benefits of different feeding strategies to both infants/children (in terms of growth and health) and mothers (in terms of economic and social gains or deficits) and how these vary based on household composition and the different employment opportunities that are available to women in the urban and rural samples.The data obtained from this study will be important in the context of policy discussions of the constraints imposed by the transition to the urban workforce on time available for breastfeeding and maternity leaves that are shorter than the current breastfeeding recommendations. This project will support the scientific training of a promising graduate student.

在生命的头两年中，足够的营养对于适当的生长/发展和健康至关重要。但是，母亲必须应对工作和婴儿喂养的竞争需求，而在这些需求之间做出的权衡有可能影响自己和孩子的人生历史参数。印度目前正在经历城市化以及可能改变IYCF做法的女性的职业机会的兴起，而迄今为止，这种做法包括广泛的母乳喂养，反过来又可能对婴儿的成长和健康产生重要影响。 该项目将调查婴儿和幼儿喂养（IYCF）的做法及其与印度城市和农村孕产妇工作的关系。为了研究IYCF实践与母亲经济活动之间的权衡，本研究将采用生物文化方法和生活历史框架。这项为期12个月的纵向研究将研究孕产妇的工作与独家母乳喂养的持续时间之间的关系，互补食品引入的质量和时机，以及最终与婴儿生长参数和健康有关。此外，这项研究还将包括有关IYCF实践的文化规范和信念，以及在快速工业化国家中的同种习惯以及与IYCF实践的关系的人种学信息。检查孕产妇的经济活动和IYCF实践可以更好地理解如何量化对婴儿/儿童（在成长和健康方面）和母亲（就经济和社会成长而言）（在经济和社会成长方面）（在经济和社会成长方面）（在经济和社会成就或缺陷方面）量化不同喂养策略的成本和收益，以及这些如何根据家庭组成以及对这些妇女的范围内的妇女的不同就业机会而变化。通过过渡到城市劳动力的施加，可用于母乳喂养和孕妇叶的时间短于当前的母乳喂养建议。 该项目将支持有前途的研究生的科学培训。