Investigation of nutrition and feeding status among children under 2 years in Beijing / 中华预防医学杂志
Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine
; (12): 46-49, 2006.
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ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the nutrition status, breast feeding and complementary feeding among children under 2 years of age in Beijing.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>A stratified cluster randomly sampling method was used. After having got the compliance a questionnaire survey was carried out to 422 children < 2 year-old in total 18 districts of Beijing.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The average infant birth weight was 3325 g, the rate of weight (2500 g and > or = 4000 g were 2.8% and 13.0% respectively. The rate of exclusive breast-feeding, partial breast-feeding, bottle-feeding of infant under 4 months was 56.6%, 33.9% and 9.5% respectively. The average weaning time was 7.4 months. The rate of complementary feeding of infant up to 6 months was 99.4%. The average ages for addition of complementary feeding such as cereal, vegetable and fruit, egg, oil, nutrients in rural areas were later than those in urban.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>It is important to promote breast feeding and improve complementary feeding by education and intervention.</p>
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Main subject:
Rural Population
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Urban Population
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Bottle Feeding
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Breast Feeding
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China
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Nutrition Surveys
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Infant Food
Limits:
Humans
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Infant
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Newborn
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
Zh
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine
Year:
2006
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Article