Weaning pattern and practices in rural women from wardha district of Maharashtra state
Journal Title: UNKNOWN - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: Many children in rural communities of developing countries die of nutrition-related causes due to lack of nutrition education and low purchasing power of the families, which result in low-quality weaning foods and poor feeding practices. Objectives: To assess weaning pattern and practices in children up to the age of 2 years in a representative sample of rural communities in Wardha district and to study the determinants influencing these practices in rural area. Material and Method: The present cross-sectional Descriptive study was undertaken in rural area of Wardha District. Data was collected by house to house visit after informed written consent. Respondents were mother of infant and child in the age group of 0 to 23 months. Structured interview schedule was used for data collection. The main outcome variables were timely initiation of Liquid, semi-solid or soft diet and solid diet. Data is presented as proportion, percentage and test of significance was applied where ever appropriate. Result: Approximately found that 46.6% had initiated liquid diet timely, 53% semisolid diet and 39.5% solid diet ,56.6% of secondary educated had not initiated solid diet timely and 77.7% of working mothers too. Conclusion: This study noticed a high proportion of the mothers used local ingredients to formulate weaning foods for their babies. The nutritional compositions of these foods is of average quality and aren’t suitable as weaning foods, particularly for child of low-income parents who do not have access to commercial weaning foods.
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Dr. Smrutiranjan Nayak, Pallavi Gawande, Nikhil Dhande, Abhay Mudey, Ashish Nagrale
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