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Correlates of the Timely Initiation of Complementary Feeding among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Rupandehi District, Nepal

Although the predictors of the timely initiation of complementary feeding are well-known elsewhere, there is less awareness of the topic in Nepal. The current study was undertaken to identify the correlates of timely initiation of complementary feeding among children aged 6–23 months. A community-ba...

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Autores principales: Acharya, Dilaram, Subedi, Radha, Lee, Kwan, Yoo, Seok-Ju, Gautam, Salila, Singh, Jitendra Kumar
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6111930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30082617
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children5080106
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author Acharya, Dilaram
Subedi, Radha
Lee, Kwan
Yoo, Seok-Ju
Gautam, Salila
Singh, Jitendra Kumar
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Subedi, Radha
Lee, Kwan
Yoo, Seok-Ju
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Singh, Jitendra Kumar
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description Although the predictors of the timely initiation of complementary feeding are well-known elsewhere, there is less awareness of the topic in Nepal. The current study was undertaken to identify the correlates of timely initiation of complementary feeding among children aged 6–23 months. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in the Rupandehi district, Nepal. A total of 155 mother-child pairs were selected using a simple random sampling technique. Logistic regression with adjustment for potential confounders was employed to examine the independent association between risk factors and the timely initiation of complementary feeding. Fewer than 3 in 5 children aged 6–23 months received complementary feeding at the recommended time. Literate mothers and a maternal occupation in the service or business sectors were found to be associated with complementary feeding at 6 months. In addition, child characteristics such as birth order, male children, and those fed micronutrients were also more likely to have been received complementary feeding at 6 months than their counterparts. Maternal education and occupation, and child characteristics such as, birth order, male gender, and micronutrient consumption, which are correlates of the timely initiation of complementary feeding, suggest that the Nepalese Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) programme should target these predictors while designing preventive strategies.
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spelling pubmed-61119302018-08-28 Correlates of the Timely Initiation of Complementary Feeding among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Rupandehi District, Nepal Acharya, Dilaram Subedi, Radha Lee, Kwan Yoo, Seok-Ju Gautam, Salila Singh, Jitendra Kumar Children (Basel) Article Although the predictors of the timely initiation of complementary feeding are well-known elsewhere, there is less awareness of the topic in Nepal. The current study was undertaken to identify the correlates of timely initiation of complementary feeding among children aged 6–23 months. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in the Rupandehi district, Nepal. A total of 155 mother-child pairs were selected using a simple random sampling technique. Logistic regression with adjustment for potential confounders was employed to examine the independent association between risk factors and the timely initiation of complementary feeding. Fewer than 3 in 5 children aged 6–23 months received complementary feeding at the recommended time. Literate mothers and a maternal occupation in the service or business sectors were found to be associated with complementary feeding at 6 months. In addition, child characteristics such as birth order, male children, and those fed micronutrients were also more likely to have been received complementary feeding at 6 months than their counterparts. Maternal education and occupation, and child characteristics such as, birth order, male gender, and micronutrient consumption, which are correlates of the timely initiation of complementary feeding, suggest that the Nepalese Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) programme should target these predictors while designing preventive strategies. MDPI 2018-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6111930/ /pubmed/30082617 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children5080106 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Subedi, Radha
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Yoo, Seok-Ju
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Singh, Jitendra Kumar
Correlates of the Timely Initiation of Complementary Feeding among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Rupandehi District, Nepal
title Correlates of the Timely Initiation of Complementary Feeding among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Rupandehi District, Nepal
title_full Correlates of the Timely Initiation of Complementary Feeding among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Rupandehi District, Nepal
title_fullStr Correlates of the Timely Initiation of Complementary Feeding among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Rupandehi District, Nepal
title_full_unstemmed Correlates of the Timely Initiation of Complementary Feeding among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Rupandehi District, Nepal
title_short Correlates of the Timely Initiation of Complementary Feeding among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Rupandehi District, Nepal
title_sort correlates of the timely initiation of complementary feeding among children aged 6–23 months in rupandehi district, nepal
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6111930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30082617
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children5080106
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