Infant- and Young Child-feeding Practices in Mongolia To Assess the Indicators of Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices Among 0- 23 Months Old Children (P04-161-19)
Abstract Objectives To assess the indicators of infant and young child feeding practices among 0- 23 months old children. Methods This cross-sectional studies was conducted all 21 provinces of the 4 economic regions of the country and capital Ulaanbaatar city in 2017. In total, 350 children aged less than two years selected through revised 125-cluster sampling using of the indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices were revised during the International Consensus Meeting organized be WHO in 2007 Results The proportions of infants with early initiation of breastfeeding (83.7%) and exclusive breastfeeding under six months (58.3%) and the prevalence continued breastfeeding at 2 years 47.3% were low. Conclusions The main problems revealed from the study were inappropriate complementary feeding practices. Our findings have highlighted the need to encourage mothers to enrich their traditional wheat- based complementary foods add more animal source foods and vegetables. Funding Sources The financial and technical support from UNICEF. Supporting Tables, Images and/or Graphs