Top feeding practices for infant among mothers residing in selected areas of city

Abstract

Good and adequate nutrition for proper growth starts in pregnancy through infancy. During infancy period, feeding should supply all the essential nutrients to meet up with the fast growth requirement at this stage.

Aim: To assess knowledge regarding top feeding practices for infant among mothers. To assess attitude regarding top feeding practices for infant among mothers. To find correlation between knowledge and attitude. To find association between knowledge score and selected demographic variables. To develop the self-instructional module on healthy top feeding practices for infant.

Material and methods: Study was non-experimental evaluatory approach. Sample size consists of 300 Mothers of infants in selected areas of city. Sampling technique adopted for the study is Quota sampling technique. The investigator prepared questionnaires. Researcher collected the demographic variables through selfadministered, semi-structured questionnaire comprised of two sections. First section for demographic data and second section semi structured questionnaire used to assess knowledge of mothers regarding top feeding practices in infant. Third section is attitude scale used to assess attitude of mother towards the top feeding practices in infant.

Results: Knowledge regarding top feeding practices for infant among mothers, highest 200 (66.67%) mothers were having average knowledge and 69 (23%) were having good knowledge and attitude regarding top feeding practices for infant among mother, highest 152 (50.66%) mothers were having favorable level of attitude and 83 (27.63%) were having very favorable level of attitude.