Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices among Mothers Residing in Urban Slums of Agartala: A Cross-Sectional Study

Introduction: Inappropriate child feeding practices is a major contributor of undernutrition and childhood mortalityin India. The optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices rank among the most effective intervention to improve child health and nutritional status. Objective: 1. To study...

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Autores principales:	Amar Tripura, Subrata Baidya, Paramita Chowdhuri
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Publicado:	Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine 2021
Materias:	complementary feeding colostrum exclusive breast feeding feeding patterns feeding related behavior Medicine R Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:40f7de4fd2f5430882fbee305d86fe7e2021-11-17T07:06:06ZInfant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices among Mothers Residing in Urban Slums of Agartala: A Cross-Sectional Study10.51957/Healthline_223_20212229-337X2320-1525https://doaj.org/article/40f7de4fd2f5430882fbee305d86fe7e2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.healthlinejournal.org/index_pdf/370.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2229-337Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2320-1525Introduction: Inappropriate child feeding practices is a major contributor of undernutrition and childhood mortalityin India. The optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices rank among the most effective intervention to improve child health and nutritional status. Objective: 1. To study the IYCF practices among mothers residing in urban slums of Agartala. 2. To study the factors associated with exclusive breast feeding and Minimum acceptable dietary intake. Method: This was a community based Cross-sectional study conducted among 180 mothers of children <24 months, residing in Urban slums of Agartala. Multistage simple random sampling procedure was adopted, and ‘WHO standard questionnaire for IYCF practices’ was used to assess the IYCF practices.Results: The study showed that the prevalence of exclusive breast feeding under 6 months was 67.39% and 91.70% mothers were continuing breast feeding at 2 years of age. Regarding complementary feeding practices, 67.20%, 73.90% and 58.95% children were having food with minimum dietary diversity, minimum meal frequency andminimum acceptable dietary (MAD) intake respectively. Early initiation of breast feeding was significantly associated with breast feeding practices (p value-0.00). Whereas, increasing age (p value-0.00),higher birth order (p value-0.03) and type of family (p value-0.01) had significant association with MAD intake. Conclusion: Study reveals suboptimal IYCF practices in the slums. There is urgent need to strengthen the on-going programs on IYCF practices targeting children with younger age and higher birth order.Amar TripuraSubrata Baidya Paramita Chowdhuri Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicinearticlecomplementary feedingcolostrumexclusive breast feedingfeeding patternsfeeding related behaviorMedicineRPublic aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENHealthline, Vol 12, Iss 3, Pp 20-27 (2021)
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spellingShingle	complementary feeding colostrum exclusive breast feeding feeding patterns feeding related behavior Medicine R Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 Amar Tripura Subrata Baidya Paramita Chowdhuri Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices among Mothers Residing in Urban Slums of Agartala: A Cross-Sectional Study
description	Introduction: Inappropriate child feeding practices is a major contributor of undernutrition and childhood mortalityin India. The optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices rank among the most effective intervention to improve child health and nutritional status. Objective: 1. To study the IYCF practices among mothers residing in urban slums of Agartala. 2. To study the factors associated with exclusive breast feeding and Minimum acceptable dietary intake. Method: This was a community based Cross-sectional study conducted among 180 mothers of children <24 months, residing in Urban slums of Agartala. Multistage simple random sampling procedure was adopted, and ‘WHO standard questionnaire for IYCF practices’ was used to assess the IYCF practices.Results: The study showed that the prevalence of exclusive breast feeding under 6 months was 67.39% and 91.70% mothers were continuing breast feeding at 2 years of age. Regarding complementary feeding practices, 67.20%, 73.90% and 58.95% children were having food with minimum dietary diversity, minimum meal frequency andminimum acceptable dietary (MAD) intake respectively. Early initiation of breast feeding was significantly associated with breast feeding practices (p value-0.00). Whereas, increasing age (p value-0.00),higher birth order (p value-0.03) and type of family (p value-0.01) had significant association with MAD intake. Conclusion: Study reveals suboptimal IYCF practices in the slums. There is urgent need to strengthen the on-going programs on IYCF practices targeting children with younger age and higher birth order.
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author	Amar Tripura Subrata Baidya Paramita Chowdhuri
author_facet	Amar Tripura Subrata Baidya Paramita Chowdhuri
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title	Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices among Mothers Residing in Urban Slums of Agartala: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short	Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices among Mothers Residing in Urban Slums of Agartala: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full	Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices among Mothers Residing in Urban Slums of Agartala: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr	Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices among Mothers Residing in Urban Slums of Agartala: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed	Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices among Mothers Residing in Urban Slums of Agartala: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort	infant and young child feeding (iycf) practices among mothers residing in urban slums of agartala: a cross-sectional study
publisher	Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/40f7de4fd2f5430882fbee305d86fe7e
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Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices among Mothers Residing in Urban Slums of Agartala: A Cross-Sectional Study

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