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Meal frequency and dietary diversity feeding practices among children 6-23 months of age in Wolaita Sodo town, Southern Ethiopia.
| Τίτλος: | Meal frequency and dietary diversity feeding practices among children 6-23 months of age in Wolaita Sodo town, Southern Ethiopia. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Mekonnen TC; Department of Public Health, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia. teferachane@gmail.com., Workie SB; School of Public Health, Wolaita Sodo University, Sodo, Ethiopia., Yimer TM; Departments of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia., Mersha WF; Departments of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. |
| Πηγή: | Journal of health, population, and nutrition [J Health Popul Nutr] 2017 May 19; Vol. 36 (1), pp. 18. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 May 19. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: BioMed Central Country of Publication: Bangladesh NLM ID: 100959228 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2072-1315 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 16060997 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Health Popul Nutr Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: May 2015- : London: BioMed Central Original Publication: Dhaka, Bangladesh : ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research, c2000- |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Diet, Healthy*/ethnology , Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena*/ethnology , Meals*/ethnology , Patient Compliance*/ethnology , Urban Health*/ethnology , Feeding Methods*, Malnutrition/*prevention & control, Ethiopia/epidemiology ; Malnutrition/epidemiology ; Malnutrition/ethnology ; Caregivers ; Child Development ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Developing Countries ; Female ; Government Employees ; Health Literacy ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Mothers ; Nutrition Surveys ; Prevalence ; Socioeconomic Factors |
| Περίληψη: | Background: Child feeding practices are multidimensional, and they change rapidly within short age intervals. Suboptimal complementary feeding practices contribute to a rapid increase in the prevalence of undernutrition in children in the age of 6-23 months. Information on child feeding practices among urban resident is limited in Ethiopia. The aim was to measure minimum meal frequency and dietary diversity and associated factors among children 6-23 months of age in Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out to select 623 mothers/caregivers with 6-23 months of children reside in Wolaita Sodo town using systematic sampling from March 02 to 20, 2015. An interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to gather information on socio-demographic, child feeding practices and health-related characteristics. Data were entered to Epi-Data version 3.02 and transported to SPSS version 21 for further analysis. Binary logistic regression was used to see the association between the outcome variables and explanatory variables, and multivariable logistic regression was performed to identify independent predictors of minimum dietary diversity and meal frequency. Results: The study revealed that the percentage of 6-23 months of children who meet the recommended level of minimum dietary diversity and meal frequency were 27.3 and 68.9%, respectively. Mothers/caregivers who were housewives and government employees feed their children more diversified foods as compared to mothers who were private workers. As compared to children 17-23 months of age, children in the age group of 6-8 and 9-11 months had better probability to meet minimum dietary diversity. Government-employed and illiterate mothers were less likely to feed their children to fulfil the minimum requirement of meal frequency. Children in the age of 9-11 months were also less likely to be fed frequently. Conclusions: Even though the study showed better progress as compared to the national prevalence of complementary feeding practices, child feeding practices in the study area were inadequate and not achieving WHO infant and young child feeding recommendations. Strengthening the available strategies and creating new intervention measures to improve socioeconomic status, maternal literacy and occupation opportunity for better practices of child feedings are compulsory actions for the government and policymakers. |
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| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: 6–23 months of children; Dietary diversity; Meal frequency; Southern Ethiopia |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20170521 Date Completed: 20180402 Latest Revision: 20220409 |
| Update Code: | 20260130 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC5437677 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s41043-017-0097-x |
| PMID: | 28526058 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 2072-1315 |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s41043-017-0097-x |