TY - JOUR AU - Jaiswal, Prashant K. AU - Gupta, Shubhra A. AU - Verma, Nirmal PY - 2019/05/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Role of mother’s knowledge and feeding practices in improvement of children from severe acute malnutrition JF - International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health JA - Int J Community Med Public Health VL - 6 IS - 6 SE - Original Research Articles DO - 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20192323 UR - https://www.ijcmph.com/index.php/ijcmph/article/view/4681 SP - 2565-2569 AB - <p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Under nutrition is significant health problem in India as well as in Chhattisgarh, recent NFHS 4 data shows that there is increase in number of children who are severely wasted from 5.6% in NFHS 3 to 8.4% in Chhattisgarh. Literature shows appropriate feeding practices and break in malnutrition infection cycle help malnourished child to recover, so present study was planned with the objective to find out the role of mother knowledge regarding feeding practices and management of minor ailments related to improvement of severe acute malnourished children discharged cured from nutritional rehabilitation centres in Chhattisgarh.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> A community based study was planned among children discharged as cured from NRC between March to December 2017. They were followed in community to find out socio-demographic factor, feeding practice after discharge, mother knowledge score, household dietary diversity using 24 hour recall method &amp; anthropometric measurements.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> Out of 156 children discharged as cured from March to December 2017, total 132 children were covered during the survey from January to June 2018. It was observed that improvement in nutritional status after discharge was significantly associated with increasing knowledge score for mother regarding nutrition and children who were separately feed after discharge from NRC.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Mother knowledge regarding nutrition and management of minor ailments and feeding practice to child after discharge are important factors associated with the improvement of children from SAM.</p> ER -