A Study on Relationship between Newborns' Feeding Pattens and Mothers' Nutrition Knowledge,Attitude, and Behavior / 中华围产医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the relationship between newborn's feeding pattern and mother's knowledge-attitude-behavior in nutrition(K-A-B). Methods 246 pairs of mother and her newborn, 28?3 days old,were enrolled in the study,and questionnaire on the K-A-B was sent. Results The breaset-feeding rate of the newborn was 65.1%. 9.8% newborns were fed inappropriately. Only 65.5% mothers passed the examination of nutritional knowledge. However,88.5% mothers had positive attitude to receiving nutritional education. A lot of mothers have food preference. Nutritional lecture ,consultation in out patient department and by telephone were the nutritional education channels choiced by 78.5% mothers. Conclusion Breast-feeding rate of the newborns had been significantly reduced in comparison with that(85.1%) two years ago. Solid foods were given too early to the newborns. The major contributing factor is lack of knowledge in nutrition of mothers . Mothers should learn more about nutrition and improve their feeding skill through nutritional education.