Maternal feeding behavior and child acceptance of food during diarrhea, convalescence, and health in the central Sierra of Peru
| Autor: | R Y Stallings, J A Elder, Mary N. Fukumoto, Margaret E. Bentley |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Diarrhea Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Population Breastfeeding Appetite Anorexia Logistic regression Peru medicine Humans Maternal Behavior education media_common education.field_of_study business.industry Public health Convalescence Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infant Feeding Behavior El Niño Health Child Preschool Regression Analysis Female medicine.symptom Energy Intake business Research Article |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Public Health. 81:43-47 |
| ISSN: | 1541-0048 0090-0036 |
| DOI: | 10.2105/ajph.81.1.43 |
| Popis: | Feeding patterns by mothers and child acceptance of food were measured in a Peruvian village to determine changes on days when children had diarrhea as compared to days of convalescence and health. Morbidity surveillance identified 40 children, aged 4-36 months, with diarrhea. Children were followed using twelve-hour in-home structured observations during two to four days each of diarrhea, convalescence, and health. Using scales of maternal encouragement to eat and child acceptance of food and cumulative logistic regression analyses, maternal encouragement to eat decreased significantly during convalescence compared to diarrheal days (OR: 0.54, 90% CI: 0.35, 0.82) and health compared to diarrhea (OR: 0.65, 90% CI: 0.46, 0.93). In contrast, child acceptance of food increased during health compared to diarrhea (OR: 1.55, 90% CI: 1.02, 2.35). Results illustrate the importance of carefully examining the behavioral aspects of nutritional intake. Decreases in intake during diarrhea are due to anorexia and not withdrawal of food by mothers. In response to reductions in child appetite during illness, mothers are more likely to encourage children to eat, while they tend to become more passive feeders after the diarrhea has stopped. Program efforts should focus on messages to feed children more actively especially after diarrhea episodes, when appetite levels increase. |
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