Table1: Interview guide at 6, 9 and 12 months
How did you interact with your baby during the main meal (lunch),
yesterday?
- Yesterday, during the meal time, did you do anything to encourage
(child’s name) to eat? If yes, what did you do? If no, ask for
reasons? Is it always like that or there are situations you do it
differently, if yes when and what do you do different and why?
- Yesterday, during the meal time, while feeding (child’s name) did you
talk to him/ her? What did you say? Is it always like that or there
are situations you do it differently, if yes when and what do you do
different and why?
- Yesterday, during the meal time, did (child’s name) self-feed (eat by
him/herself, using hands or utensil) at any moment during the meal? If
yes, did the child (name) self-feed the whole time, half of the time
or a little time? Is it always like that or there are situations you
do it differently. What difficulties would you have in doing this?
- Yesterday, during the meal time, did (child’s name) stop eating, and
you think he/she did not eat enough, what did you do? Is it always
like that or there are situations you do it differently, if yes when
and what do you do different and why? If the mother answers: “I
motivated her/him to eat”: How did you motivate her/him to eat? Is it
always like that or there are situations you do it differently, and
why?
- What difficulties would you have in motivating the child to eat when
you think he /she did not eat enough?
- If the mother doesn’t say she would motivate: Why wouldn’t you
motivate?
- What factors do you think make it difficult for you to interact with
your child during feeding? How do they make it difficult your
interactions?