Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: a qualitative study in Soweto

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dc.contributor.authorNorris, Shane A.
dc.contributor.authorCohen, Emmanuel
dc.contributor.authorWrottesley, Stephanie V.
dc.contributor.authorPrioreschi, Alessandra
dc.contributor.authorSlemming, Wiedaad
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-28T07:03:13Z
dc.date.available2024-08-28T07:03:13Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentPaediatrics and Child Health
dc.description.abstractFrom a socio-anthropological study focusing on maternal body weight perceptions and dietary practices towards infants living in Soweto (South Africa), we studied how lay sociocultural traits may lead to early childhood obesity. Most mothers tended to socially value and normalize fatness. This propensity led mothers, particularly older women at home, to adopt high-calorie feeding practices towards infants, although some mothers tended to question these lay norms. Further works must consider how lay (emic) sociocultural norms in African townships can contradict biomedical (etic) messages, conveying for the community thinness as the acceptable standard, and may expose infants to early obesity.
dc.description.sponsorshipHELTI.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Research Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 113987.
dc.description.sponsorshipSouth African Medical Research Council.
dc.description.sponsorshipCanadian Institutes of Health Research.
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of the Witwatersrand Human Research Ethics Committee, Grant/AwardNumbers: M170707, M171129.
dc.description.submitterPM2024
dc.facultyFaculty of Health Sciences
dc.identifier.citationCohen, E., Slemming, W., Wrottesley, S. V., Prioreschi, A., &Norris, S. A. (2024). Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesityin South Africa: A qualitative study in Soweto. Children & Society, 38, 277–293. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12689
dc.identifier.issn0951-0605 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1099-0860 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1111/chso.12689
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/40350
dc.journal.titleChildren & Society
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.id0000-0001-7124-3788
dc.publisherWiley
dc.rights© 2023 National Children's Bureau and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
dc.schoolSchool of Public Health
dc.subjectBody weight perceptions
dc.subjectChildhood obesity
dc.subjectDietary practices
dc.subjectLay norms
dc.subjectSoweto
dc.subject.otherSDG-3: Good health and well-being
dc.titleMaternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: a qualitative study in Soweto
dc.typeArticle
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