Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences
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Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Research Article   
  Compliance to Recommended Complementary Feeding and Associated Factors among Mothers of Children Aged 6-23 Months in Meta-Robi, Oro Abulu Waga Dinka1
  Author(s): Abulu Waga Dinka*, Guta Cheru and Tadesse Kebebe
  
  Purpose Children's malnutrition is a major health concern in many developing countries including Ethiopia. Appropriate practices of infant and young child feeding practices including complementary feeding are critically important to improve this problem according to a recommendation by the World health organization. This study aimed to assess complementary feeding practices among mothers and caregivers of children aged 6-23 months in the Meta Robi district. Methods And Finding Community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Meta Robi district, Oromia region between Februarys and March 2018. Accordingly, a total of 625 mothers of children aged 6 to 23 months were included in the study. The proportion of timely introduction of complementary feeding among children 6-23 months of age was 459(73.4%) whereas appropriate complementary feedin.. View More»
  

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