ASSESSMENT OF MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AND NUTRITIONAL OUTCOME OF UNDER-FIVE CHILDREN IN ILARO, OGUN STATE

Adewunmi, Hameedat (2019) ASSESSMENT OF MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AND NUTRITIONAL OUTCOME OF UNDER-FIVE CHILDREN IN ILARO, OGUN STATE. In: 1st National Conference of WITED, Ilaro Chapter, August 13-16, 2019, The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro.

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Abstract

The study was carried out to assess the maternal nutritional knowledge, socio-economic status and nutritional outcome of under five children in Ilaro Area of Ogun State, Nigeria. A sample of two hundred and forty (240) respondents was randomly selected for the population. The instrument used in collecting data was the structured questionnaire showing personal information of the parent and the children, and the anthropometric measurement of under five children. The findings revealed that majority (59.2%) of the parent (respondents) are between 41 to 50 years of age. All the respondents were female. The findings showed the anthropometric measurement of children in which height of respondents ranged between 80cm and above (57.5%), the weight of respondents ranged between 10-15kg (60.0%). In addition, findings revealed that 55.8 % of the respondents were mildly underweight, 62.5 % had normal stunted growths while 51.7 % had normal wasted growth. The results indicated that there was adequate maternal nutritional knowledge of the parents in relation to the nutrition of their children. The study concludes that food intake of children under the age of five (5) in the study area established a significant relationship with children’s age, weight, parents occupation and parent income, yet nutritional related problems exist among the under-five children in the study area. It is therefore recommends that children should be given meals that contain all classes of food nutrients in other to prevent the incidence of malnutrition, underweight, stunted growth and wasted growth and also nutritional counselling should be done for the mothers of the under-five to reduce the prevalence of nutritional related problems.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences
Depositing User:	Unnamed user with email [email protected]
Date Deposited:	28 May 2021 09:18
Last Modified:	28 May 2021 13:35
URI:	http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/1375

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