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Effect of the Nutrition Education for Infant Feeding on Mother's Knowledge, Attitude, Practice of Weaning  

Kim, Mi-Yang (Department of Food and Nutrition, Sungshin Women's University)
Ahn, Hong-Seok (Department of Food and Nutrition, Sungshin Women's University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture / v.18, no.4, 2003 , pp. 320-332 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study evaluated the effect of the nutrition education about infant feeding on the change of mother's knowledge, attitude and practice of weaning. The subjects consisted of treatment group (n=54) and control group (n=34). The treatment group participated in 6 times nutrition education and 5 times surveys. Nutrition education for weaning of the treatment group improved nutrition knowledge, attitude and practice in infant feeding. Before education, mean scores of control group and treatment group were 7.3 and 7.5 respectively but there was no significant difference. Both group got low score in a statement about weaning period, but they got good score in a statement about weaning method. After education, treatment group got better score(9.1) than control group(8.3) significantly (p<0.05). Treatment group was more desirable than control group specially in a use of Sun-sik, sugar, salt and weaning food mixed with formula after education (p<0.05). Practice of spoon feeding was more frequent in treatment group after education, however, control group used sugar and commercial weaning food more frequently than treatment group(p<0.05). Intake frequency of cow's milk and cookies of infants at age 9-12 month in control group was higher than treatment groups(p<0.01). Thus the nutrition education to mother seems to be effective in achieving desirable dietary behavior of infants.
Keywords
infant feeding; weaning; nutrition education;
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