Ensuring diets of children aged 6–23 months meet recommended guidance is crucial for
growth and development and for the prevention of malnutrition including stunting, wasting …

Objective: To determine and compare the socio-economic characteristics, childcare and
feeding practices among children aged 6-59 months of households participating in a World …

Background Mothers and caregivers typically feed infants according to their culture,
purchase power and level of awareness with no due diligence to nutritional quality of the …

Improved health of infants is dependent on the supportive role of the fathers. There is limited
research done in Kenya on father involvement and how it affects feeding practices of the …

Background Following the successful implementation of the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) strategy in Tanzania, improvements in child health indicators were observed …

In Tanzania, suboptimal complementary feeding practices contribute to high stunting rates.
Fathers influence complementary feeding practices, and effective strategies are needed to …

We utilized the most recent Demographic Health Survey data to explore the distribution of
feeding practices and examine relationships between complementary feeding and socio …

Background Inappropriate complementary feeding is a major contributor of child
malnutrition. Previous studies have described complementary feeding practice using a …

Background Suboptimal feeding practices have a negative impact on children's health and
growth in the first 2 years of life and increase their risk of undernutrition, morbidity, and …

Objective: To introduce practices for improving complementary feeding and evaluate their
adoption and association with improved dietary intakes. Design: A quasiexperimental pilot …