Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
Nutritional status is very closely related to the complementary feeding (CF) given to infants
CF was based on four sub themes, namely ‘prelacteal feeding’, ‘not understanding the readiness of children to be fed by CF’, ‘lack of support system’ and ‘lack of knowledge’
Inadequate nutritional intake occurred because CF implementation was not provided to babies based on the principle of balanced nutrition and was processed improperly. 1Health Polytechnic of Medan, Indonesia, 2Provincial Health Office of North Sumatera, Indonesia, 3National Institute of Health Research and Development, Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia, 4Faculty of Health and Sciences, Jenderal Soedirman University, Purwokerto, Indonesia, 5Faculty of Medicine, Jenderal Soedirman University, Purwokerto, Indonesia *Correspondence: elfatih05@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8068-8076 (Received on 28 February 2020: Accepted after revision on 24 April 2020) The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest Personal funding was used for the project
Summary
Nutritional status is very closely related to the complementary feeding (CF) given to infants. Stunting is defined as the impaired growth and development of children under five, usually due to poor nutrition, especially within the first 1,000 days of life or because of repeated infection[1]. Stunting is identified as a global health priority. A target to reduce the number of stunted children under-five in Indonesia was by 28% between 2015 and 20194. Data from Riset Kesehatan Dasar (RISKESDAS) – research conducted by Ministry of Health, Republic of Indonesia (2018) reported that the prevalence of malnutrition was 17.7% and the prevalence of stunting of children aged under-two was 29.9%5. Nutritional status is closely related to the pattern of complementary feeding (CF) implementation based on the WHO recommendation, which is to start at six months of age
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