Nutrition education intervention has been found more effective to reduce prevalence of all type of malnutrition rather than treatment approach.
Health workers were provided technical education to mother’s club for around one hour. Health workers were followed adult learning methodology during session. Health workers used various learning approach for example demonstration, food tasting, small group activities and general discussion(10). This study showed preventive approach is better than targeting approach. …show more content…
Al. conducted a cluster randomized trail study of an educational intervention in peer peri urban area of Peru. There are 187 children infants enrolled from catchment area and 190 from central areas.
This study clearly showed improvements of nutritional status of children those who got nutrition education. Interesting things of this study is intervention and control group both can access food in a good manner. Nutrition education brought improvement when it delivered with other health services especially on stunting.
A thick puree satisfies and nourishes your baby; it is equivalent to three portion of soup. When you feed your child give thick food preparation first, add a especial food to your baby’s serving (Chicken liver, egg or fish) and teach your child to eat with love and patience. These messages had been delivered by health workers during regular health services like immunization and Growth monitoring etc …show more content…
conducted a study on non-dietary factors affecting directly or indirectly the weight gain in children with severe acute malnutrition. There are 300 children are in the age group of 6 to 60 months, meeting the WHO criteria for severe acute malnutrition were enrolled in the study. These children were provided special therapeutic diet as recommended by WHO/UNICEF protocol. Children were called for follow-up every 15 days up-to 2 months after discharge to evaluate whether these children have achieved a final target weight gain of 15% of their admission weight. Study concluded that 172 (57.4%) of the total 300 children did not achieve final target weight. They observed that impact of various non-dietary factors like mother’s educational status and her knowledge about feeding practices, socioeconomic status, previous history, and present evidence of infection in child was important in determining the weight of child