دورية أكاديمية
Use of Mother Child Protection Card for Improving Infant Feeding Practices
| العنوان: | Use of Mother Child Protection Card for Improving Infant Feeding Practices |
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| المؤلفون: | Prabhakar, Kamini, Kalaivani, K., Kowsalya, S., Ramachandran, Prema |
| المصدر: | The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics; Volume 56, Issue 4, October - December 2019; 351-364 ; 2348-621X ; 0022-3174 |
| بيانات النشر: | Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | Informatics Journals (Informatics Publishing Ltd.) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Public Health Nutrition, Mother Child Protection Card, under-three children, infant feeding, morbidity, nutritional status, Infant and young child feeding |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | India, Current time period, community based observational study |
| الوصف: | For the last four decades India had invested in interventions for improving household food security, supplementary feeding programmes and health care to pre-school children. However under-nutrition rates in under-five children continue to be high. Poor infant and young child feeding and caring practices had been identified as the major modifiable factors associated with under-nutrition especially in the critical first two years. Mother Child Protection Card (MCPC) was introduced as the critical intervention tool for combating these two factors and improving nutritional status of the children. A community based mixed longitudinal study was taken up in urban low middle income group mothers with under-three children to assess feasibility and impact of using MCPC as a supportive tool for nutrition and health education regarding infant and young child feeding and care during illness. Mothers readily accepted MCPC, kept it safely and produced it when requested. MCPC with authentic pictorial messages was used by all health and nutrition front line workers and research team; this practice ensured uniformity in nutrition and health education messages. Over 90% of infants at 2 months and over 2/3rd at 5 months were solely breast-fed. By 8th month almost all infants received semi-solid food. Almost all families accessed health care during illness and followed the advice regarding feeding during illness and convalescence. As a result the mean z scores for weight-for-age did not show any deterioration in the first year. MCPC is a useful tool in providing nutrition and health education and improving infant feeding practices. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| العلاقة: | https://www.informaticsjournals.com/index.php/ijnd/article/view/23980/18988Test; https://www.informaticsjournals.com/index.php/ijnd/article/view/23980Test |
| DOI: | 10.21048/ijnd.2019.56.4.23980 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.21048/ijnd.2019.56.4.23980Test https://www.informaticsjournals.com/index.php/ijnd/article/view/23980Test |
| حقوق: | Copyright (c) 2019 The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.19DFDDE2 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.21048/ijnd.2019.56.4.23980 |
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