Index for measuring child feeding practices

Srivastava, Neena; Sandhu, Amarjit K.

doi:10.1007/s12098-007-0061-7

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“…No such association was calculated in the study of tea garden workers. 27 In present study in Infants >6 months of age normal nutritional status was seen in 56.90%, 27.03% and 27.27% of adequate, inadequate and no complementary feeding group respectively. Grade IV malnutrition was seen in 8.62%, 9.91% and 11.36% of adequate, inadequate and no complementary feeding group infants respectively.…”

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“…26 A study from Gujarat also showed similar result in which a significant association were revealed between positive Complementary Feeding practices and nutritional status of the Infants as measured by and Weight for Age Z score (p<0.01). 27 On reviewing literature, we could not find any study in which an association has been found between nutritional status and breast feeding upto 6 months and with complementary feeding after 6 months in comparison with undernourished Infants of Grade I, II, III, IV.…”

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The relationship between feeding and nutritional status: a prospective and observational study conducted in northern region of India

Kaur

Singh

Pannu

et al. 2018

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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Background: The health of Infants to a great extent depends upon the feeding practices and its awareness among the mothers. This study was conducted in Tertiary care hospital to find the correlation between feeding pattern with nutritional status.Methods: Infants in the age group of 14 weeks to 1 year formed the sample of the study. The nutritional status was assessed in relation to breast feeding practice among infants ≤6 months. Among infants >6 months of age, the nutritional status was assessed in relation to adequacy and timely start of weaning. Correlation was observed, and test of significance was applied through chi square test.Results: Total 591 infants were included in the study out of which 232 infants were ≤6 months of age [120 (51.72%) were exclusively breastfed and 112 (48.28%) were top fed]. Out of these breast feed infants, 86/120 (71.67%) had normal nutrition compared to 54/112 (48.21%) of top-fed babies. Infants >6 months of age were 359 in number [116 (32.31%) were having adequate complementary feed, 111 (30.92%) were having inadequate complementary feed and 132 (36.77%) did not receive any complementary feed]. Out of these infants in the age group of >6 months, 56.90% of adequate complementary feed group, 27.03% of receiving inadequate complementary feed and 27.27% of not received complementary feed were having normal nutritional status. The association between nutritional status and breast feeding in ≤6 months and complementary feed in >6 months has been found to be statistically significant (p value < 0.05, d.f =1).Conclusions: Breastfeeding as well as adequate complementary feed has positive correlation to nutritional status in infants even when compared with the malnourished infants of grade I, II, III and IV.

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The relationship between feeding and nutritional status: a prospective and observational study conducted in northern region of India

Kaur

Singh

Pannu

et al. 2018

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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“…Studies in Ethiopia, Latin America and Burkina Faso reported that infant and child feeding index was a predictor of HAZ and WAZ score [13,23,24,25] (23,24,25,13). The studies done in India, Garg et al reported association between child feeding index score and under nutrition [22] whereas Srivastava et al failed to find so [26].…”

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Under Nutrition and its Association With Infant and Young Child Feeding Summary Index Among 6 to 23 Months In Demba Gofa Woreda, Southern Ethiopia

Mekonnen¹

2017

JNHFS

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Background: Infant and Young child feeding practices remain a common problem in Ethiopia. Infant and young child practices are multidimensional and changes rapidly. The previously developed indicators could not be able to show the simultaneous effect of different dimension of complementary feeding and has focused on single practices over a narrow age range and has not addressed the impact of adequate or optimal infant and child feeding. Thus this study had shown the simultaneous effect of feeding practice in the study area in particular and in Ethiopia at large via summary index.

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“…This is because the CF practices encompass a series of inter-related behaviours that must be considered simultaneously and are, therefore, difficult to summarize into one or a few variables that accurately reflect these practices (5–6). …”

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Index for Measuring the Quality of Complementary Feeding Practices in Rural India

Garg

Chadha

2010

J Health Popul Nutr

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This community-based cross-sectional study was undertaken to develop a complementary feeding index (CFI) to assess the adequacy of complementary feeding (CF) practices and determine its association with growth of infants, aged 6-12 months, in rural Indian population. The study was conducted in six villages of Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh, India. A structured interview schedule was used for eliciting information from 151 mothers of infants, aged 6-12 months, on CF practices. Data on CF practices were scored using the CFI developed. Measurements of weight and length were taken. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were done using the SPSS software (version 13). The results revealed that the CF practices were suboptimal in the sample. The mean±standard deviation (SD) CFI scores ranged from a low value of 7.09±3.21 in 6-8 months old infants to a comparatively-higher value of 9.69±2.94 in 9-12 months old infants. Using the CFI it could be identified that infants (n=151) had poor dietary diversity, with only 31% and 18% of the infants reportedly being fed the recommended number of food-groups during 6-8 and 9-12 months respectively. The food-frequency scores of the CFI showed that cereals and diluted animal milk were the major foodgroups fed to the infants in this setting. Analysis of nutritional status revealed that 24.5% of the infants were stunted (length-for-age [LAZ] <-2SD), 25% were underweight (weight-for-age [WAZ] <-2SD), and 17% were wasted (weight-for-age [WLZ] <-2SD). Significant associations (p<0.05) were observed between the meal-frequency and the dietary diversity of the CFs of infants aged 6-8 months and 9-12 months and the WAZ and LAZ indices of their nutritional status. On multivariate analysis of factors affecting the LAZ, WAZ and WLZ scores, the CFI was significantly associated (p<0.05) with LAZ whereas maternal education and breastfeeding frequency were significantly (p<0.01) associated with WAZ and WLZ. Per-capita income, parity, and birth-order were the significant (p<0.05) determinants of the CFI. The CFI developed is an exploratory attempt to summarize and quantify the key CF practices into a composite index, which would reflect the CF practices holistically. This index can be used as an easy tool by programme planners for identifying, targeting, and monitoring the deficient CF practices and also advocating the importance of the CF at policy level.

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Index for measuring child feeding practices

Cited by 25 publications

References 4 publications

The relationship between feeding and nutritional status: a prospective and observational study conducted in northern region of India

The relationship between feeding and nutritional status: a prospective and observational study conducted in northern region of India

Under Nutrition and its Association With Infant and Young Child Feeding Summary Index Among 6 to 23 Months In Demba Gofa Woreda, Southern Ethiopia

Index for Measuring the Quality of Complementary Feeding Practices in Rural India

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