Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences Collection

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    Dietary patterns of children aged 6 - 59 months and maternal nutritional knowledge in Chamwino district,Dodoma.
    (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2018) YUSUPH,CHRISTOPHER GEOFREY
    Under-nutrition in young children is widely distributed and fairly concentrated in the developing regions of the world. Over 150 million children suffer from under-nutrition globally. This study was carried out to determine factors affecting dietary patterns of children aged 6 months - 59 months and maternal nutritional knowledge in Chamwino Dodoma. The study was conducted at Chamwino district in Dodoma region. The study assumed a cross-sectional design in which data was collected once. Nutritional assessment was determined by using anthropometric measurements. WHO criterion was used to obtain indicators for nutritional status: weight-for-age, height-for-age, and weight -for-height. Structured questionnaire was used to assess nutritional knowledge of maternal towards health diets and a 24 hour dietary recall was used to quantify nutrient intake and food frequency questionnaire were used to asses’ dietary patterns of children in the household. Data was computed and analyzed by WHO Anthro and Statistical Product for Social Services (SPSS) version 20.WHO Anthro was used to analyse nutritional status of Children. Both descriptive and inferential variables were analysed by using SPSS, where data on dietary patterns, quantification of nutrients and maternal knowledge were computed. The results also show that 86.7% of the mothers did not receive any education and/ or training about nutrition and about 94.7 % of mothers were feeding colostrum to their child. Majority of the children expressed moderate to severely underweight (20%) (2.7%); stunting (52%) (14.7%); and wasting (4%) (1.3%). Chi- square test, all indices (WAZ; HAZ and WHZ) were found to be significantly associated with socio - demographic at p values < 0.05 involving family size, marital status and education level and Maternal Nutritional Knowledge at p values < 0.05.Foodii consumption patterns shows that 15.3% of the children aged 6-8 months feed three times a day and 19.3% of the children age 9-11 months feed three times a day and also 38.5% of the children age 12-23 months feed three times a day. Also the results show that 100% of the household use cereals, 98.7% use legumes and nuts, 90.7% use oil and fats and 78.7% consume vitamins A rich vegetables and other vegetables. Furthermore, the study show that 81, 68, and 65.3 % of the children did not meet recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) of carbohydrates, protein and fats per day. On the other hand 85.3, 69.3, 25.4, 77.3 and 78.8 % did not meet RDAs for Calcium, zinc, iron, vitamin C and vitamin A per day respectively.