Assessment of Nutritional Status of Children 0 - 2years and Associated Factors in Some Selected Primary Health Centres in Osun State
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2020
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Faculty of Education, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Abstract
This study assessed the nutritional status of. children under 0 - 2 years using anthropometric
measurement approach in selected primary Health Centers (PHC) in Ife orth Local Government
of Area of Osun State and identified mothers' perceived factors that influenced nutritional status
these children. lt also investigated the feeding practices engaged by mothers of 0-2 children.
A descriptive cross-sectional study that targeted a population of 200 mothers with children 0 - 2
years attending the selected PHCs used a simple random sampling technique to select a sample
size of 160 mothers using Slevin's formula. Weighing scale. stadiorneter. and Shakir's tape were
used to get data from 0 - 2 children while a self-structured questionnaire was used to collect data
from mothers of these children. Face and content validity of the questionnaire were ensured by
experts in related research field with a mean reliability coefficient of 0.66 using the test re-test
method. Data collected were analyzed using Emergency Nutrition Assessment for Standardized
Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transition (ENA for SMART) software and Statistical
Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. The research hypotheses ",-,ere tested using chi
square at 5% level of significance.
The study revealed that underweight (8.8%), stunting (9.4%) and wasting (6.9%) were found
among the children. Furthermore, lack of readily avai lable nutritional food, lack of money to buy
adequate food, inability of child to eat his or her food well, stringent work schedule and
husbands being the only source of income were major factors identified as hindering the
nutritional status of the children. About 91.2% of the mothers practiced exclusive breastfeeding
and 23.8% used locally available food as complementary feeding after exclusively breastfeeding
their children.
It is recommended that government authorities should organize women empowerment
programmes on skills acquisition to help them to be self-reliance.
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https://positivepsychology.org.ng/positive-psychology-and-counselling-journal.
Keywords
Nutritional status, Assessment, Breastfeeding, Exclusive breastfeeding, complementary feeding