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Complementary feeding practices among mothers and nutritional status of infants in Akpabuyo Area, Cross River State Nigeria

Overview of attention for article published in SpringerPlus, December 2016
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Title
Complementary feeding practices among mothers and nutritional status of infants in Akpabuyo Area, Cross River State Nigeria
Published in
SpringerPlus, December 2016
DOI 10.1186/s40064-016-3751-7
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Ekerette Emmanuel Udoh, Olukemi K. Amodu

Abstract

Malnutrition in infants during weaning has been attributed to inappropriate complementary feeding practices and it underlies more than one-third of child mortality in Nigeria. Thus, addressing the influence of complementary feeding practice on nutritional status may be an important approach to reducing the burden of child malnutrition. This cross-sectional study investigated the association between complementary feeding practices among mothers and nutritional status of their infants in Akpabuyo Local Government Area, Nigeria. The study enrolled 330 mother-child pairs from 10 randomly selected out of 32 Health Facilities in Akpabuyo. Socio-demographic information, child and maternal characteristics were obtained using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. Complementary feeding practices were assessed with World Health Organization infant and young child feeding indicators. Nutritional indicators wasting, underweight and stunting were determined. Prevalence of timely introduction of complementary feeding among infants aged 6-8 months was 85.4%, minimum dietary diversity rate was 31.5%, and minimum meal frequency 36.7%, the rate of minimum acceptable diet was 7.3%. One-third (33.3%) of the infants were underweight, 26.4%, wasted and 24.6%, stunted. Children who did not receive timely complementary foods had higher odds for wasting (OR 5.15; 95% CI 1.50-17.73). Children who did not receive the minimum dietary diversity had higher odds for underweight than children who received the minimum dietary diversity (OR 2.07; 95% CI 1.17-3.70). Children who did not receive the minimum feeding frequency were more likely to be stunted than their peers who received the minimum feeding frequency (OR 1.57; 95% CI 1.53-4.03). Sub-optimal complementary feeding predisposed to infant's malnutrition.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 605 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 115 19%
Student > Bachelor 94 16%
Researcher 35 6%
Student > Postgraduate 32 5%
Lecturer 27 4%
Other 69 11%
Unknown 233 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 165 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 97 16%
Social Sciences 25 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 4%
Environmental Science 8 1%
Other 44 7%
Unknown 244 40%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 August 2020.
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#2,840,018
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#163
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#8
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