COMMON PITFALLS REGARDING COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING PRACTICES AMONG HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IN PEDIATRICS DEPARTMENTS OF SOME ALEXANDRIA HOSPITALS | ||
| Al-Azhar Journal of Pediatrics | ||
| Article 2, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2023, Pages 3595-3615 PDF (229.97 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/azjp.2023.325921 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: The health and well-being of the child depends on the attainment of appropriate nutritional requirements which include breast or formula feeding followed by proper complementary feeding. Objective: To assess the current awareness of pediatric health care providers at some of Alexandria hospitals (Alnfoshy, Ras-El Teen, Fawzy Moaz hospitals) regarding complementary feeding practices. Patients and Methods: This study is a comparative cross-sectional questionnaire-based study conducted among 264 health care providers (187 physicians and 77 nurses) working in pediatric departments of the above-mentioned hospitals in Alexandria. The questionnaire consisted of 17 items based on the recent evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for complementary feeding practices in Egypt, June 2018. Data was collected over 12 months and coded manually and analyzed by using statistical package for social science version 25. Results: The studied healthcare providers (both physicians & nurses) experience inadequate knowledge in several aspects of complementary feeding. For physicians, the main pitfalls regarding complementary feeding that deviated from the recommended guidelines were for: time of honey introduction (86.6%), fruit juice introduction (63.1%), introduction of yogurt and dairy products (49.7%), advisable first food (47.1%) and water in non-breast feed infants (55.6%) respectively. Conclusion: The present study demonstrated that knowledge of the studied pediatric health care providers is not optimum in several aspects of complementary feeding and need to be updated and enhanced by regular training courses and follow up in that field. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Keywords: Common pitfalls; complementary feeding | ||
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