Relationship of feeding behavior with nourishing and developing status of infants
- VernacularTitle:婴幼儿营养发育与喂养行为的关系
- Author:
Yuanyuan YANG
;
Yi WANG
;
Wenfang YANG
;
Zhouqi YANG
;
Xiaomian SUN
;
Liming LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2005;9(11):232-233
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND: There are less researches on the relationship of parents'feeding behavior with nourishing and developing status of infants.OBJECTIVE: To study the relationship between the parents' feeding behavior and the nourishing and developing status of infants.DESIGN: A cross-sectional study.SETTING: Center of Maternal and Children' s Health,the First Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University.PARTICIPANTS: The study was carried out during January to December in 2002,at the Center of Maternal and Children' s Health,The First Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University. A total of 346 infants,aged 0 to 18 months old,were selected from the Fuping county and Chengcheng county of Weinan area by using the stratified duster sampline method. Inclusive criteria: infants with the gestation period between 37 to 42 weeks,without obvious diseases,no congenital abnormality; Exclusive criteria: infants with congenital disease or abnormality. Totally 324 infants,who were in accordance with the above criteria,were divided into 5 groups according to their month age.METHODS: The nursing persons of the infants were called at their houses,and the self-designed "Investigation Tables on Infant's Nutrition"were filled out.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: ① Status of slight malnutrition of infants of different month ages; ② Status of nutrition and development of infants,within 4 months, with different feeding behaviors; ③ Effects of beginning time,quality and frequency of complementary food on the nourishing and developing status of infants.RESULTS: In the first 4 months after birth,the rate of breast-feeding was high and the nourishing status of the infants was good. But the nourishing and developing status of infants became comparatively worse after 4 months age,because of inappropriate complementary food. As compared the slight malnutrition infants with normal infants,there were significant differences in the beginning time and kinds of complementary food(P<0.01).CONCLUSION: There is close relationship of the feeding behaviors with the nourishing and developing status of the infants.
