{"doc_desc":{"title":"Evidence Based Implementation of Baby-Friendly Workplace Support Initiative and Evaluation of its potential feasibility and effectiveness on improving maternal and child nutrition and health","idno":"APHRC-KBWI-BIRTH-V10","producers":[{"name":"African Population and Health Research Center","abbreviation":"APHRC","affiliation":"","role":"Data Documentation"}],"prod_date":"2018-09-05","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 (September 2018)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"APHRC-KBWI-BIRTH-V10","title":"Evidence Based Implementation of Baby-Friendly Workplace Support Initiative and Evaluation of its potential feasibility and effectiveness on improving maternal and child nutrition and health","sub_title":"na","alt_title":"KBWI"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"African Population and Heath Research Center","affiliation":"APHRC"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"African Population and Heath Reserach Center","affiliation":"APHRC","role":"Producer"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"1-2-3 Survey, phase 1 [hh\/123-1]","series_info":"Phase 1 (Pre-implementation phase)\n\n\u00b7\tPre-implementation qualitative study\nRapid qualitative methods including in-depth interviews (IDIs), focus group discussions (FGDs) and key informant interviews (KIIs) were conducted with various stakeholders including women and men working in the tea plantation, the managers of the tea plantation; the Ministry of Health staff including national and county level, peer supporters and health facility staff serving the tea plantation; other business leaders and employee organizations, the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA); and community leaders. Targeted women were those who were either pregnant or mothers of children aged less than one year, their spouses and other men working in the plantation, employers and other stakeholders including Ministry of Health officials, County government, local community leaders and KEPSA.\n\u00b7\tBaseline Quantitative Survey\nQuantitative survey among all mothers of children aged less than one year working in the tea plantation before the implementation of the intervention to assess the experiences and satisfaction with existing workplace environment, work participation including absenteeism and cessation of work, productivity, breastfeeding practices including duration of exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding with complementary feeding. We will also assess nutritional status of children aged less than one year through anthropometry, and health status using mother-reported 14-days recall on morbidity. \nData from the pregnant women recruited during the baseline survey period on their IYCF practices and their previous experiences with combining work and breastfeeding, if applicable."},"version_statement":{"version_date":"2018-09-05","version_notes":"na"},"study_info":{"abstract":"Interventions that promote breastfeeding are critical for optimal child growth, development and survival, and the wellbeing and productivity of their mothers and families, and consequently to sustainable development. Workplace support for breastfeeding is key to sustainable development as it has an impact on the wellbeing of the employees and their economic productivity, and the growth and development of their children through mothers practicing optimal breastfeeding and care practices. UNICEF has proposed a model workplace support for breastfeeding initiative in a tea plantation that can be scaled to other similar workplaces in Kenya and beyond. The initiative is aimed at building \u201cBetter Business Practices for Children\u201d in order to minimize malnutrition in children following the signed commitment by Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) and Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) in 2010, in order to minimize malnutrition in children. The research team will conduct research in an identified tea plantation in Kericho in order to; (i) inform the design and implementation of the model workplace support for breastfeeding initiative; (ii) determine whether the intervention works by testing its operational feasibility and effectiveness on the health and wellbeing of women working in the tea plantation and their children and the women's' productivity; and (iii) assess the cost-benefit of the initiative; using a mixed methods approach. Ultimately, it is expected that the learning from this research will guide the scaling up of the workplace support initiative in Kenya and other settings in the developing world. A key anticipated product of this project will be its contribution to the development of the guidelines for workplace support in Kenya and beyond.","nation":[{"name":"Kenya","abbreviation":"KE"}],"geog_coverage":"One Rural area  in one county","analysis_unit":"Quantitative\n-All women with children aged less than one year\n-All pregnant women in the study community\n\n\nQualitative\n-Women of reproductive age, men, other community members including grandmothers, health care providers, community leaders and policy\/decision makers in the ministry of health and other key organizations and supervisors and managers at the tea estate."},"method":{"data_collection":{"coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"cit_req":"Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:\n- the Identification of the Primary Investigator\n- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)\n- the survey reference number\n- the source and date of download","disclaimer":"The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses."}}}}