Publication: Infant feeding practices of mothers in an urban area in Nepal
| creativeworkseries.issn | 1812-2027 | |
| dc.contributor.author | SH, Subba | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chandrashekhar, TS | |
| dc.contributor.author | VS, Binu | |
| dc.contributor.author | HS,Joshi | |
| dc.contributor.author | MS, Rana | |
| dc.contributor.author | SB, Dixit | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-25T06:52:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-07-25T06:52:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.description | Subba SH 1, TS Chandrashekhar2, Binu VS 3, Joshi HS 4, Rana MS 5, Dixit SB61 Associate Professor, 2, 4Assistant Professor 3 Assistant Professor of Biostatistics ,5Lecturer, 6Professor and HeadDepartment of Community Medicine, Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: Child health in developing countries including Nepal is a matter of serious concern as the prevalence of malnutrition among children continues to be high with 48.6% of children under five in Nepal being underweight. Since infant feeding practices adopted by mothers play a major role in influencing health of these children, there is a need to study the infant feeding practices prevalent in different areas in order to have pragmatic approaches to solve this problem. Materials and methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among mothers who attended the immunization clinics of 18 wards of Pokhara municipality area. They were interviewed with a semi-structured questionnaire on various aspects of infant feeding. Result: A total of 168 mothers were interviewed and prevalence of breastfeeding was 99.4% (167). Only 43.5% of the mothers initiated breastfeeding within one hour of birth and 60.5% were practicing exclusive breastfeeding at 5 months. Almost 40% of the mothers started complementary feeding before the recommended age of 6 months and 22.5 % delayed introduction of complementary feeding beyond the recommended age. Conclusion: Breast feeding practices adopted by mothers of Pokhara urban area are still lacking in terms of late initiation of and early starting of complementary feeding. There is a need to educate the mothers regarding proper infant feeding practices. Key words: infant feeding, breastfeeding, weaning | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14572/671 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Kathmandu University | |
| dc.title | Infant feeding practices of mothers in an urban area in Nepal | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.article.type | Original Article | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 47 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 42 | |
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