OBJECTIVES To evaluate impact of postnatal health education for mothers on infant care and postnatal family planning practices in Nepal. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial with community follow up at 3 and 6 months post partum by interview. Initial household survey of study areas to identify all pregnant women to facilitate follow up. SETTING Main maternity hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Fol...

General illiteracy, superstitions, and a lack of dietary education are major problems in India. Specifically, mothers' beliefs about infant and child feeding may lead to the malnutrition of many infants and children in India. Mothers sometimes unnecessarily restrict the provision of food to their children during illness. The authors investigated the prevalent maternal beliefs in Kutumba, Aur...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Inappropriate complementary feeding is a major cause of child malnutrition and death. This study determined the complementary feeding knowledge, practices, minimum dietary diversity, and acceptable diet among mothers of under-five children in an urban Local Government Area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria. METHODS This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted...

A case-control study of unbooked mothers delivering at the maternity unit of the Port Moresby General Hospital was undertaken over a period of 7 months. 48 mothers who had no antenatal attendances during pregnancy were recruited with 96 booked controls. Reasons for non-attendance, understanding of the importance of antenatal clinics and socioeconomic and demographic factors were recorded to ass...

The aim of this study was to investigate the determinants of breast-feeding according to the characteristics of mother and her child. Cox proportional hazard model technique has been employed to investigate the determinants of breast-feeding. The data were utilized from a sample survey of Palpa and Rupandehi districts of rural Nepal. The study revealed that the current age of mothers, their edu...

BACKGROUND There are many wrong practices and perceptions of Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) prevalent among different socio-demographic groups. AIM To observe IYCF perceptions and practices among mothers in a rural area of West Bengal. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Clinic-based cross-sectional descriptive study by interviewing mothers of 0-23 month old children. Appropriate response to each s...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Exclusive breastfeeding provides many benefits to both infants and mothers. Despite the introduction of laws aimed at protecting the practice of exclusive breastfeeding, the coverage of exclusive breastfeeding remains low, particularly for working mothers. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN This crosssectional study recruited working mothers employed in medium and large compan...

OBJECTIVE Evaluate the interaction between maternal age and education level in neonatal mortality, as well as investigate the temporal evolution of neonatal mortality in each stratum formed by the combination of these two risk factors. METHODS A nonconcurrent cohort study, resulting from a probabilistic relationship between the Mortality Information System and the Live Birth Information Syste...

Maternal caregiving capacity, which is affected in part by cognition and mood, is crucial for the health of mothers and infants. Few interventions aim to improve maternal and infant health through improving such capacity. Multiple micronutrient (MMN) supplementation may improve maternal cognition and mood, since micronutrients are essential for brain function. We assessed mothers who participat...

PURPOSE This study compared postpartum depression and parental self-efficacy between married immigrant women from Vietnam and native Korean mothers. METHOD The participants were 72 native Korean mothers and 69 immigrant Vietnamese mothers living in a suburban city in South Korea. The instruments used were the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and the Parent Expectation Survey. RESULTS Th...