Poor infant and young child feeding practices and sources of caregivers' feeding knowledge in rural Hebei Province, China: findings from a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To obtain a general overview of infant and young child feeding practices in one rural county in China and identify current delivery channels and challenges.

Design

A cross-sectional study.

Setting

A rural county, Zhao County, in Hebei Province, China.

Participants

10 clusters were first selected within each township (16 townships in total) with proportional to population size sampling. In each cluster, a name list was used to select 13 children aged 0-23 months. We interviewed caregivers of all the selected children.

Primary and secondary outcomes measures

Coverage of infant feeding practices, reasons for low coverage of infant feeding practices and current delivery channels of infant feeding practices.

Results

Findings from our survey

SUBMITTER: Wu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4120327 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature