An epidemiological study of feeding practices, immunization status and childhood infections between 6 months to five years of age and its association with acute malnutrition in a rural area of Palghar district of Maharashtra

Background: Breastfeeding is the normal way of providing young infants with the nutrients they need for healthy growth and development. Methods: A community based cross sectional study was conducted among 800 mothers from urban and rural areas of Rangareddy District. A pre designed pre tested questionnaire was used to interview the mothers. Questionnaire contained questions related to demographic factors and breast feeding practices. Institutional Ethical clearance was taken. Results: The overall prevalence of exclusive breast feeding was 65%, being comparatively more in rural area (68%) which was statistically significant. Colostrum was discarded by 15% mothers in urban and 9% in rural area. Breast feeding was initiated within 1 hour in 184 (46%) in urban area and in 148 (37%) in rural area. Conclusions: Though mothers from rural area had certain favorable breast feeding practices such as demand feeding, colostrum being given but still various inappropriate practices were prevalent in both rural and urban areas.

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Infant and young child feeding practices among mothers of children aged 6 months -2 years in a rural area of Haryana: A qualitative study

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care ◽

10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_164_20 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. 3392

Author(s):

BhushanDattatray Kamble ◽

Ravneet Kaur ◽

BhabaniPrasad Acharya ◽

Mehul Gupta ◽

Batch Batch B

Keyword(s):

Young Child ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Rural Area ◽

Feeding Practices ◽

Child Feeding ◽

Young Child Feeding ◽

Child Feeding Practices ◽

Infant And Young Child

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STUDY OF NUTRITIONALAND IMMUNIZATION STATUS IN CHILDREN 6 MONTHS TO 3 YEARS ATTENDING IMMUNIZATION CLINIC, UHTC, IGIMS, PATNA.

10.36106/ijsr/6000169 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Abha Kumari ◽

Sanjay Kumar Choudhary* ◽

Sanjay Kumar

Keyword(s):

Breast Feeding ◽

Low Socioeconomic Status ◽

Severe Acute Malnutrition ◽

Acute Malnutrition ◽

Great Effort ◽

Exclusive Breast Feeding ◽

Number Of Children ◽

Immunization Status ◽

Good Nutrition ◽

Moderate Acute Malnutrition

Background: In the rst three years of life, good nutrition plays an important role in forming a good foundation that has impact on child's future physical and mental development. In this study we are focussing on the nutritional and immunization status in children 6months to 3 years attending immunization clinic,UHTC,IGIMS,PATNA with special emphasis to identify moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and severe acute malnutrition (SAM) cases. Methods : It is an observational study carried out immunization clinic at UHTC,I.G.I.M.S. Patna included 400 cases age between 6 months to 3 years This study was conducted from January 2019 to June 2019 in immunization clinic UHTC, IGIMS Patna. Results:Incidence of SAM and MAM is 7.5% and 30.75 % respectively. Female predominance was seen in SAM and MAM i.e. 53.4% and 54.6% respectively. Signicant association of under-nutrition was found with LBW (p<0.05), not giving exclusive breast feeding up to 6 months of life (p<0.05) and, Low socioeconomic status (p<0.001). Higher numbers of females were unvaccinated. Conclusions: Despite our great effort for improving maternal and child health, signicant number of children are malnourished and unimmunized. So, for their better health we need to start from birth, institutional delivery, exclusive breast feeding, immunization, and timely introduction of complementary feeds, marriages at appropriate age, proper antenatal visits and birth spacing.

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