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Improving the intake of nutritious food in children aged 6-23 months in Wuyi County, China – a multi-method approach

AIM: To develop affordable, appropriate, and nutritious recipes based on local food resources and dietary practices that have the potential to improve infant feeding practices. METHODS: We carried out a mixed methods study following the World Health Organization’s evaluation guidelines on the promot...

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Autores principales: Wu, Qiong, van Velthoven, Michelle H.M.M.T., Chen, Li, Car, Josip, Rudan, Diana, Saftić, Vanja, Zhang, Yanfeng, Li, Ye, Scherpbier, Robert W.
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Publicado: Croatian Medical Schools 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23630143
http://dx.doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2013.54.157
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author Wu, Qiong
van Velthoven, Michelle H.M.M.T.
Chen, Li
Car, Josip
Rudan, Diana
Saftić, Vanja
Zhang, Yanfeng
Li, Ye
Scherpbier, Robert W.
author_facet Wu, Qiong
van Velthoven, Michelle H.M.M.T.
Chen, Li
Car, Josip
Rudan, Diana
Saftić, Vanja
Zhang, Yanfeng
Li, Ye
Scherpbier, Robert W.
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description AIM: To develop affordable, appropriate, and nutritious recipes based on local food resources and dietary practices that have the potential to improve infant feeding practices. METHODS: We carried out a mixed methods study following the World Health Organization’s evaluation guidelines on the promotion of child feeding. We recruited caregivers with children aged 6-23 months in Wuyi County, Hebei Province, China. The study included a 24-hour dietary recall survey, local food market survey, and development of a key local food list, food combinations, and recipes. Mothers tested selected recipes at their homes for two weeks. We interviewed mothers to obtain their perceptions on the recipes. RESULTS: The 24-hour dietary recall survey included 110 mothers. Dietary diversity was poor; approximately 10% of children consumed meat and only 2% consumed vitamin A-rich vegetables. The main reason for not giving meat was the mothers’ belief that their children could not chew and digest meat. With the help of mothers, we developed six improved nutritious recipes with locally available and affordable foods. Overall, mothers liked the recipes and were willing to continue using them. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study using a systematic evidence-based method to develop infant complementary recipes that can address complementary feeding problems in China. We developed recipes based on local foods and preparation practices and identified the barriers that mothers faced toward feeding their children with nutritious food. To improve nutrition practices, it is important to both give mothers correct feeding knowledge and assist them in cooking nutritious foods for their children based on locally available products. Further research is needed to assess long-term effects of those recipes on the nutritional status of children.
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spelling pubmed-36623892013-05-23 Improving the intake of nutritious food in children aged 6-23 months in Wuyi County, China – a multi-method approach Wu, Qiong van Velthoven, Michelle H.M.M.T. Chen, Li Car, Josip Rudan, Diana Saftić, Vanja Zhang, Yanfeng Li, Ye Scherpbier, Robert W. Croat Med J Improving Global Child Health AIM: To develop affordable, appropriate, and nutritious recipes based on local food resources and dietary practices that have the potential to improve infant feeding practices. METHODS: We carried out a mixed methods study following the World Health Organization’s evaluation guidelines on the promotion of child feeding. We recruited caregivers with children aged 6-23 months in Wuyi County, Hebei Province, China. The study included a 24-hour dietary recall survey, local food market survey, and development of a key local food list, food combinations, and recipes. Mothers tested selected recipes at their homes for two weeks. We interviewed mothers to obtain their perceptions on the recipes. RESULTS: The 24-hour dietary recall survey included 110 mothers. Dietary diversity was poor; approximately 10% of children consumed meat and only 2% consumed vitamin A-rich vegetables. The main reason for not giving meat was the mothers’ belief that their children could not chew and digest meat. With the help of mothers, we developed six improved nutritious recipes with locally available and affordable foods. Overall, mothers liked the recipes and were willing to continue using them. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study using a systematic evidence-based method to develop infant complementary recipes that can address complementary feeding problems in China. We developed recipes based on local foods and preparation practices and identified the barriers that mothers faced toward feeding their children with nutritious food. To improve nutrition practices, it is important to both give mothers correct feeding knowledge and assist them in cooking nutritious foods for their children based on locally available products. Further research is needed to assess long-term effects of those recipes on the nutritional status of children. Croatian Medical Schools 2013-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3662389/ /pubmed/23630143 http://dx.doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2013.54.157 Text en Copyright © 2013 by the Croatian Medical Journal. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Improving Global Child Health
Wu, Qiong
van Velthoven, Michelle H.M.M.T.
Chen, Li
Car, Josip
Rudan, Diana
Saftić, Vanja
Zhang, Yanfeng
Li, Ye
Scherpbier, Robert W.
Improving the intake of nutritious food in children aged 6-23 months in Wuyi County, China – a multi-method approach
title Improving the intake of nutritious food in children aged 6-23 months in Wuyi County, China – a multi-method approach
title_full Improving the intake of nutritious food in children aged 6-23 months in Wuyi County, China – a multi-method approach
title_fullStr Improving the intake of nutritious food in children aged 6-23 months in Wuyi County, China – a multi-method approach
title_full_unstemmed Improving the intake of nutritious food in children aged 6-23 months in Wuyi County, China – a multi-method approach
title_short Improving the intake of nutritious food in children aged 6-23 months in Wuyi County, China – a multi-method approach
title_sort improving the intake of nutritious food in children aged 6-23 months in wuyi county, china – a multi-method approach
topic Improving Global Child Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23630143
http://dx.doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2013.54.157
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