Caregivers' competencies in feeding practices for food diversity and adequacy to children

What is it about?

This study has addressed a very important issue in maternal and child health on the aspect of childhood nutrition as advocated by SDG3 target 3.4. Moreover, the study adhered to the research ethics and studied a large sample size at the community level to establish a real-life picture of feeding practices in the transitional stage from health facilities to homes among caregivers with under-five children

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Photo by S O C I A L . C U T on Unsplash

Photo by S O C I A L . C U T on Unsplash

Why is it important?

The findings from this study highlight the magnitude of feeding practice problems among caregivers with under-five children who are residing in the Dodoma region, Tanzania thus, they can be used in day-to-day hospital-home health activities by health professionals to assure a continuum adherence and implementation of the WHO MDD and MMF recommendations by them in the region. Health organs such as the ministry of health, professional organizations/unions non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and/or stakeholders in the health field revisit the existing nutritional educational guidelines alongside facilitation pedagogics/andragogy and strengthen their scope, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation for the continuum feeding practices among caregivers with under-five children at both health facilities and their homes. Needless to say, the findings of this study may disseminate and may serve as a base for large-scale studies interventions/projects or those that will establish causal-relationship more intensively need to be conducted in the region to address the problem accordingly

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