Dietary patterns of children aged 6 - 59 months and maternal nutritional knowledge in Chamwino district,Dodoma.
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2018
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
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.
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Dietary patterns, Maternal nutritional, Nutritional knowledge