A study on Infant and young child feeding practices among children aged less than 24 months in an Urban slum of Raichur – A cross-sectional study.
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
Introduction: After the age of six months the nutritional requirement of the child will no longer be met with breast milk alone. Timely introduction of solid and semisolid foods, appropriate quantity and quality is very essential failing which, risk of malnutrition increases. Therefore the present study was taken up with the objective of assessing the infant and young child feeding practices of children less than 24 months. Materials and methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in the urban field practice area of a medical college in Raichur, Karnataka. Based on DLHS 4 data on proportion of children under 6 months who were exclusively breast fed, a sample size of 171 was obtained. A pretested semi structured questionnaire was framed based on WHO IYCF questionnaire to collect data.. Results: Mothers of 178 children were included in the study. Proportion of male and female children exclusively breast fed were 45% and 55% respectively. Colostrum was discarded by 19.4% mothers and amongst them 11.3% perceived it to be dirty. Minimum acceptable diet (MAD) requirement was met only in 12.4% of the children. Conclusion: Inappropriate infant and young child feeding practices are highly prevalent. A minimum acceptable diet criterion according to the WHO recommendation was met only in 1/8th of the study population. There is a need to create awareness on the importance of proper feeding practices in the community to improve the nutritional status of the under-five population.
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Swetha Rajeshwari, Ayesha Nawaz, Sathyanarayana P, Vandana G
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- EP ID EP525751
- DOI 10.26727/NJRCM.2018.7.3.158-162
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