Judith Kimiywe

Biographic Data

ID7558509
NAMEJudith Kimiywe
GIVEN NAMESJudith
FAMILY NAMEKimiywe
SIGNATUREKIMIYWE J
AFFILIATIONSKenyatta University
ORCID0000-0001-7884-659X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Diets of infants and young children in two counties of Kenya

    Open AccessJudith Kimiywe, Hope C Craig et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices are influenced by many context-specific factors related to local food systems as well as social and cultural practices. Understanding these local contextual perspectives is essential for designing effective programs and policies. This paper uses focused ethnographic study methods to examine challenges experienced by mothers related to IYCF in two counties in Kenya, a country with considerable hetero…

  • Effectiveness of the baby‐friendly community initiative on exclusive breastfeeding in Kenya

    Open AccessElizabeth Kimani‐Murage, Judith Kimiywe et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    The baby-friendly hospital initiative (BFHI) promotes exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) in hospitals, but this is not accessible in rural settings where mothers give birth at home, hence the need for a community intervention. We tested the effectiveness of the baby-friendly community initiative (BFCI) on EBF in rural Kenya. This cluster randomized study was conducted in 13 community units in Koibatek sub-county. Pregnant women aged 15-49 years were r…

  • Mothers’ perceptions on and learning from infant and young child-feeding videos displayed in Mother and Child Health Centers in Kenya

    Open AccessLauriina Schneider, Mikko Kosola et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: The objective was to explore mothers’ perceptions on educational videos on infant and young child-feeding practices, and to assess whether viewing frequencies would influence maternal knowledge, attitudes and feeding practices (KAP). Design: A set of forty-seven videos were displayed in health centres for 6 months. At 3 months, we conducted focus group discussions (FGD) with mothers and, at 6 months, administered KAP-questionnaire-base…

  • Maternal knowledge in complementary feeding following Baby Friendly Community Initiative in Koibatek, Kenya

    Open AccessMildred Maingi, Judith Kimiywe et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2020

    The Kenyan Ministry of Health has developed a National Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding with the goal of improving feeding practices for infants and children. In order to promote appropriate infant feeding, the government has explored implementation of the Baby Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI). This study assessed maternal knowledge of attributes of complementary feeding following implementation of BFCI in Koibatek, Kenya. A randomi…

  • Effectiveness of Baby Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI) on complementary feeding in Koibatek, Kenya

    Open AccessMildred Maingi, Judith Kimiywe et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    ISRCTN03467700 . Registration 24 September 2014. Retrospectively registered

  • Is competence enough to enable Kenyan mothers to make good infant and young child feeding decisions

    Open AccessLauriina Schneider, Sari Ollila et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2017

    The aim of this study was to explore factors associated with maternal infant and young child feeding motivation in urban and rural Kenya. We conducted 18 focus group discussions with mothers of children 0 to 23 months of age and healthcare workers. The data were transcribed, translated, and explored following the principles of content analysis. We first explored and coded the data inductively and categorized it according to emerging themes repres…

  • Zinc, iron and calcium are major limiting nutrients in the complementary diets of rural Kenyan children

    Open AccessElaine L Ferguson, Peter Chege et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2015

    Poor quality infant and young child (IYC) diets contribute to chronic under-nutrition. To design effective IYC nutrition interventions, an understanding of the extent to which realistic food-based strategies can improve dietary adequacy is required. We collected 24-h dietary recalls from children 6-23 months of age (n = 401) in two rural agro-ecological zones of Kenya to assess the nutrient adequacy of their diets. Linear programming analysis (LP…

  • Predictors of overweight and obesity in adult women in Nairobi Province, Kenya

    Open AccessRegina W Mbochi, Elizabeth Kuria et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2012

    The predictors of overweight and obesity showed that urbanization and the nutrition transition were well established in the sample of women studied in the high SE groups. They exhibited a sedentary lifestyle and consumed a diet high in energy, protein, fat, cholesterol, and alcohol and lower in fibre and carbohydrate compared with those in the low SE groups