{
  "abstract": "Background Cup feeding is an alternative method to provide nutrition to infants exhibiting difficulties in breastfeeding. Paladai is a cup commonly used to feed milk to infants in several parts of India. Parental reports of infant feeding help address feeding concerns and establish successful oral feeding.Method This cross-sectional study was conducted in a quaternary care hospital in South India. The NeoEAT-Paladai/cup in Tamil was developed through a systematic process of cross-cultural adaptation and included 64 items. A total of 325 Tamil-speaking mothers of children younger than 7 months who were fed through the paladai exclusively or partially, along with breastfeeding, completed the NeoEAT-Paladai (Tamil).Results Factor analysis of the responses yielded five subscales with high internal consistency reliability across subscales (α=0.858 to 0.908) and the full scale (α=0.963). Test-retest reliability was high for the full scale (intraclass correlation=0.995). Infants with feeding concerns demonstrated significantly higher total and subscale scores than infants without feeding concerns (p<0.001).Conclusion The NeoEAT-Paladai (Tamil) allows clinicians and caregivers of Tamil-speaking populations to monitor the feeding behaviours of infants when being fed by paladai.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India"
      ],
      "name": "Gopalakrishnan Jayapradha"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Neonatology, Sri Ramachandra University Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India"
      ],
      "name": "Prakash Amboiram"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India"
      ],
      "name": "Sanjanaa Anand"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India"
      ],
      "name": "Deekshitha Akula"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Neonatal nurse practitioner and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Britt Frisk Pados"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India"
      ],
      "name": "Lakshmi Venkatesh"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of Neonatal Eating Assessment Tool (NeoEAT)-Paladai/cup feeding in Tamil: a caregiver-reported assessment tool",
  "uid": "95c21594-1250-54c9-a1b4-165f147668ad"
}