Appropriate complementary feeding practice and associated factors among mothers having children aged 6–24 months in Debre Tabor Hospital, North West Ethiopia, 2016

OBJECTIVE: This study was aimed to assess appropriate complementary feeding practice and associated factors among mothers having children aged 6–24 months in Debre Tabor Hospital, North West Ethiopia, 2016. RESULTS: In this study, 37.2% of mothers had appropriate complementary feeding practice. Moth...

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Autores principales: Dagne, Asrat Hailu, Anteneh, Kiber Temesgen, Badi, Marta Berta, Adhanu, Hadgay Hagos, Ahunie, Mekonnen Assefa, Tebeje, H/Mariam Demewozu, Aynalem, Getie Lake
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30961638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4259-3
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: This study was aimed to assess appropriate complementary feeding practice and associated factors among mothers having children aged 6–24 months in Debre Tabor Hospital, North West Ethiopia, 2016. RESULTS: In this study, 37.2% of mothers had appropriate complementary feeding practice. Mothers’ level of education above grade 12 (AOR = 2.96, CI 1.2–7.62), husbands’ occupation (AOR = 4.01, CI 1.3–12.44), mothers ‘having exclusive breast feeding practice (AOR = 6.12, CI 3.04–12.3), health education about exclusive breast feeding during antenatal care visit (AOR = 5.59, CI 1.24–25.17) and advice on appropriate complementary feeding practice during antenatal care visit (AOR = 6.34, CI 1.5–26.91), and mothers who have got under 5 unit service due to infant and young children illness (AOR = 0.44, CI 0.22–0.89) were statistically significant variables for appropriate complementary feeding practice.

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