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Greener Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health Vol. 9(1), pp. 1-9, 2021 ISSN: 2354-2381 Copyright ©2021, the copyright of this article is retained by the author(s)
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Parental Knowledge and Compliance Practices to Breastfeeding Guidelines and Nutritional Status of Infants
Enedy Zyakaka1; Namo Gwisai1; Reginald Dennis Gwisai2*
1Department of Food and Nutrition, Solusi University.
2Department of Academics, Unicaf University.
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Article No.: 100520126 Type: Research
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This study assesses parental knowledge and compliance with recommended breastfeeding guidelines and nutritional status of infants aged 1-23 months. A quantitative orientation and purposive sampling was used to collect data using convenience from 80 parents (40 males and 40 females located from the health centre) and their children (40 infants) aged 1 – 23 months. Data on nutrition knowledge of parents and breastfeeding practices of infants by their mothers were collected with the help of structured questionnaires. Anthropometric measurements of infants were measured to estimate their nutrition status. The weight of each infant was measured using the weight scale while the height was measured using a height board. The measurements were used to calculate underweight, stunting and wasting of infants using z-scores. Participants demonstrated moderate levels of knowledge and practices of breastfeeding. Most (79%) parents reported that they took a forward decision to breastfeed their children before the children were born. Most (58%) of the parents acquired this information from family members while 33% from health personnel. On the other hand observations revealed that most (60%) of the parents also took a decision to stop breastfeeding through the advice of family members while 32.5% reported that the advice came from health personnel. This study revealed that most (80%) of the infants were stunted, underweight (52.5%) while 22.5% were wasted. It is recommended that nutrition education programmes on infant breastfeeding practices should involve all members of the family. |
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Accepted: 08/10/2020 |
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*Corresponding Author Reginald Dennis Gwisai E-mail: reginalddgwisai@ yahoo.co.uk; r.gwisai@ zimbabwe.unicaf.org |
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Keywords: Breastfeeding practices; compliance; Infants; extended family . |
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Cite this Article: Zyakaka E; Gwisai N; Gwisai RD (2021). Parental Knowledge and Compliance Practices to Breastfeeding Guidelines and Nutritional Status of Infants. Greener Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health, 9(1): 1-9. |
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