Parents knowledge, attitude, and practice on nutrition of child with severe acute malnutrition in Awi Zone public Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia, 2023.

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q2 NUTRITION & DIETETICS

Frontiers in Nutrition Pub Date : 2025-05-23 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fnut.2025.1481738

Birhaneslasie Gebeyehu Yazew, Yeneabat Birhanu Yohanes, Daniel Adane Endalew, Zewdu Bishaw Aynalem

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Abstract

Background: Incorrect or insufficient child nutrition predisposing for different disease and crisis. Even it is stated at different countries, there are no studies in Ethiopia specifically in the Amara Region Awi Zone public hospitals, Northwest of Ethiopia to investigate parental nutritional awareness in childhood.

Objectives: To investigate parental nutritional knowledge, attitude, and practice in childhood in Awi Zone public Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia.

Methods: A cross-sectional study design with a purposive convenience sampling method was done among 297 participants. Parents of children with severe acute malnutrition were invited to complete adapted questionnaires. Details of parents' nutritional awareness (knowledge, practice, and attitude) were assessed in face-to-face structured health interviews with the data collectors. The collected data were checked, coded, and entered into Epi-info version 7 and exported to SPSS version 23 for further analysis. Descriptive statistics was applied.

Results: A total of 297 parents were involved with the mean age 29.66 ± 6.27 years. About 93% of parents were heard about their child's nutrition and 66.6% resided in rural. Overall parent's good knowledge, favorable attitude, and poor practice toward child nutrition were 50.8%, 21.2%, and 89.6%, respectively. Health institution delivery, 1.61 and 4.39 times were associated with Knowledge and attitude, respectively and good practice 2.42 times associated with Knowledge. Children with comorbidities were 4.7 and 2.32 time associated with parents' attitude and practice, respectively.

Conclusion: Parental awareness toward child nutrition is considered a significant target for public health interventions. Delivery site, presence of comorbidities, and practice were the significant factors associated with parents' awareness. The majority of parents were aware of the positive impact of child nutrition on overall wellbeing. The State of Awi Zone, Northwest Ethiopia, would be cost-effective to train and professionally develop the Awi Zone public Hospitals and primary healthcare workers to be more experts in tackling parents' nutritional awareness by providing family counseling.

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2023年埃塞俄比亚西北部Awi地区公立医院严重急性营养不良儿童家长的营养知识、态度和实践

背景：儿童营养不正确或营养不足易导致不同的疾病和危机。即使在不同的国家，埃塞俄比亚也没有专门在埃塞俄比亚西北部阿马拉地区阿维区的公立医院进行研究，以调查父母在儿童时期的营养意识。目的：了解埃塞俄比亚西北部Awi地区公立医院儿童家长的营养知识、态度和做法。方法：采用有目的、方便抽样的横断面研究设计，对297名被试进行调查。患有严重急性营养不良儿童的父母被邀请填写经过调整的问卷。在与数据收集者面对面的结构化健康访谈中，评估了父母营养意识（知识、实践和态度）的细节。对收集到的数据进行检查、编码，输入Epi-info version 7，导出到SPSS version 23进行进一步分析。采用描述性统计。结果：共297名家长参与，平均年龄29.66±6.27岁。约93%的家长了解孩子的营养状况，66.6%的家长居住在农村。家长对儿童营养认识良好、态度良好和行为不良的比例分别为50.8%、21.2%和89.6%。卫生机构提供与知识和态度相关的次数分别为1.61次和4.39次，良好做法与知识相关的次数为2.42次。患儿共病发生率与父母态度、行为相关的分别为4.7、2.32倍。结论：家长对儿童营养的认识是公共卫生干预的重要目标。分娩地点、合并症的存在和实践是与家长意识相关的重要因素。大多数家长都意识到儿童营养对整体健康的积极影响。在埃塞俄比亚西北部的阿维地区，培训和专业发展阿维地区的公立医院和初级保健工作者，使其成为通过提供家庭咨询来提高父母营养意识的专家，将具有成本效益。

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Frontiers in Nutrition Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Food Science

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5.20

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2891

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12 weeks

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