Assessment of Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices of Caregiver’s in Jashore City, Bangladesh

• 作者: Afroza Sharmin M. N. A. Siddiqui Mahbubur Alam Dewan Md. Jannatul Ferdaus Md. Sidur Rahman Niaz Mahmud Tanvir Ahmad
• 来源期刊: 食品与营养科学(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: BREASTFEEDING COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING INFANT and Young Child CAREGIVERS
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（3）
• 页码范围: 194-206
• 页数: 13页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

Since infant and young child feeding practices play an important role in ameliorating childhood nutrition, an exploratory and descriptive study has thus been conducted employing a previously developed questionnaire at Ad-din shisu Hospital, Jashore, Bangladesh to obtain better insights about the breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices among infant and young child feeding caregivers. Out of 260 babies, 54% were female and 46% were male. Nearly all caregivers were found having the idea that breast milk is the best food for newborn babies. Around 81.9% of caregivers think that breast milk contains all the nutrients the baby needs to flourish, but in case of protection from disease, only 18.1% of caregivers think that it protects the baby from certain diseases. Around 46.9% mothers practiced early initiation of breastfeeding and they offered breast milk to their newborn right away (within one hour) after delivery, 53.5% lactating mothers had proper knowledge about breastfeeding methods, 39.6% mothers never practiced burping after breastfeeding, 66.4% mothers had normal delivery, 33.6% mothers had caesarian section, 99% mothers offered colostrums to their babies and only 1% of them didn’t give the colostrums. Besides, 88.8% continued breastfeeding up to 24 months or more along with 83.8% caregivers starting complementary feeding from six months, 55.4% caregivers said baby’s immune system is less developed, so they get attacked by infection easily and 44.6% caregivers said “their tummies are vulnerable to infection”, and 48.8% of the caregivers followed the type of hygiene required. Our findings revealed information on the knowledge, attitude, and practices of the caregiver’s towards breastfeeding and complementary feeding.