ArticleBMC pediatrics2021
Feeding the critically ill child in intensive care units: a descriptive qualitative study in two tertiary hospitals in Ghana.
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- Factors that influence the provision of enteral feeding for critically ill children: a qualitative evidence synthesis.BMC nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- NICU nurses' knowledge, attitudes, practices, and influencing factors regarding breastfeeding of newborns: a scoping review.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Review
- Adopting a Comprehensive Approach to Improve Nutritional Status among Critically Ill Children in Low-Resource Settings: A Narrative Review.International journal of preventive medicine · 2026Review
- Determinants of jaundice severity in neonates admitted at a Teaching Hospital in Ghana.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Scabies Infection While Expressing Human Milk for Critically Ill Infants: Is It Safe?Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine · 2024Article
- Substandard feeding in children undergoing mechanical ventilation in pediatric intensive care unit: A retrospective cohort study in China.Belitung nursing journal · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundCritically ill children require optimum feeding in the intensive care units for speedy recovery. Several factors determine their feeding and the feeding method to adopt to address this phenomenon. The aim of this study was to explore and describe the feeding criteria of critically ill children at the neonatal and paediatric intensive care units.
methodsA descriptive qualitative design was used to conduct the study. Six focus group discussions were conducted, and each group had five members. In addition, twelve one-on-one interviews were conducted in two public tertiary teaching hospitals in Ghana and analyzed by content analysis using MAXQDA Plus version 2020 qualitative software. Participants were selected purposively (N = 42).
resultsThe decision to feed a critically ill child in the ICU was largely determined by the child's medical condition as well as the experts' knowledge and skills to feed. It emerged from the data that cup feeding, enteral, parenteral, and breastfeeding were the feeding processes employed by the clinicians to feed the critically ill children.
conclusionsRegular in-service training of clinicians on feeding critically ill children, provision of logistics and specialized personnel in the ICU are recommended to reduce possible infant and child mortality resulting from suboptimal feeding.
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