Discordance in exclusive breastfeeding between maternal recall and deuterium dose-to-mother technique during the first 6 months of infants: A multi-country study in Asia.
Pattanee WinichagoonTippawan PongcharoenTetra FadjarwatiErmin WinarnoNorima A KarimEnkhzul PurevsurenTanvir AhmadAyesha YameenManjula HettiarachchiKunchit JudprasongNga Tran ThuyHien Vu Thi ThuMd Munirul IslamChristine SlaterTinku ThomasAlexia J Murphy-AlfordPublished in: European journal of clinical nutrition (2023)
This study showed there were declining levels of EBF from 3 to 6 months in the participating countries from Asia and the agreement between maternal recall and DTM technique to classify EBF was low. To ensure that the DTM technique can be more widely used in evaluating breastfeeding promotion programs, consensus on the appropriate NMOI cutoff and simplification of the DTM protocol is necessary.