A COMMUNITY BASED STUDY ON INFANT AND YOUNG FEEDING PRACTICES IN A RURAL AREA OF KARNATAKA.
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2012, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
[b]BACKGROUND:[/b] Adequate nutrition during infancy and early childhood is critical to the development of children’s full human potential. [b]OBJECTIVE[/b]: The main objective was to assess the Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices and associated socio demographic variables among children aged less than two years in rural areas METHODS: A community based, cross sectional descriptive study was done during Sept 09-Aug 2010 which is the rural field practice area of Shri. B. M. Patil Medical College SBMPMC. The data was computed and analyzed using SPSS statistical package (version 13.0). [b]RESULTS[/b]: During the study period 264 mothers of infants and young children interviewed with the questionnaire and 159 out of 264 had received prelacteal feeds (males 64 % and females56.3 %). Illiterate mothers (69.7%) practiced more prelacteal feeding than the literate mothers (54.6%). 36% received exclusive breast feeding for a period six months. Majority of the illiterate mothers were practicing early (31.4%) and delayed weaning (32.5%).Poor socioeconomic status, illiteracy, birth spacing and cultural beliefs had significant effect on infant and young children feeding practices. [b]CONCLUSIONS[/b]: The study re-emphasized the need for conducting continued infant and child feeding intervention programmes especially for the mother during antenatal and postnatal checkups.
Authors and Affiliations
Sharvanan Udayar, Angadi M. M, Rekha Udgiri, Santosh Patil
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