Knowledge Attitude and Practice of Complimentary Feeding Among Mothers Attending Immunization Centre ,RIMS, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
Improving infant and young child feeding practices plays critical role in health and development of children and impact child survival. The objective of this study was to describe the relationships between mother’s sociodemographic characteristics and mother’s knowledge ,attitude and practices (KAP) of infant and young child complementary feeding attending immunization centre RIMS. This study was a cross sectional study done at Immunization Centre, RIMS, Ranchi from August 2015 to October 2015 .All mothers having children of 6 to 24 months of age who attended the Immunization centre of RIMS during our study period were included as our sample population . The collected data was exposed to statistical analysis. It was seen that out of 252 , 112 (44.4%) babies were 6 –10 months of age, majority were 136 (54%) males. About 212 (84.1%) of the respondents were residing in the urban area. Out of 252 respondents, 48(19%) were iliiterate,27(10.7%)were literate but not taken formal education ,whereas 175 (69.4%) of the respondents were Educated. Both Nuclear and Joint family was found to be equivalent which was 128(50.8%) in nuclear as compared to 124(49.2%)joint families. Majority i.e 230 (91.3%) of the mothers were housewives .It was concluded that there was a knowledge and practice gap of duration of exclusive breast feeding and initiation and continuation of ideal complementary feeding.
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Anit Kujur, Vidyasagar, Shamim Haider, Vivek Kashyap
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