Feeding, caregiving practices, and developmental delay among children under five in lowland Nepal: a community-based cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nurturing care, including adequate nutrition, responsive caregiving and early learning, is critical to early childhood development. In Nepal, national surveys highlight inequity in feeding and caregiving practices for young children. Our objective was to describe infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and cognitive and socio-emotional caregiving practices among caregivers of children under five in Dhanusha district, Nepal, and to explore socio-demographic and economic factors associated with these practices.

Methods

We did a cross-sectional analysis of a subset of data from the MIRA Dhanusha cluster randomised controlled trial, including mother-child dyads (N = 1360), sampled when children were median age 46 days and a follow-up survey of the same mother-child dyad

SUBMITTER: Dulal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9464411 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature