Knowledge of Mothers of Infant and effects on Morbidity Status of Infants: Computerized structured Complementary Feeding Instructions

Abstract

Complementary feeding (CF) to infants is an advancement of steadily familiarizing semi-liquid to semi-solid foods along with mom’s milk at the end of 6 months. The objectives were to assess the demographic variables of infants and mothers of infant, to assess the infant’s morbidity status. Methodology: Quantitative approach were used to evaluate the experimental and control groups. The design used in this study was Pretest posttest control group. Sample of 500 mothers and mothers of infant included who satisfying the inclusion criteria chosen by simple Random sampling. Obtained written consent from each participant before collecting the data and confidentiality of data were maintained. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive, inferential statistics. Results: Experimental Group mean SD 27.3±1.57, SE-0.83, Control Group mean SD 16.4±2.62, SE-0.52, Effect size 0.7, t value-1.95, Cohen’s’‘d’ 5.20,. At the end of 12 months among experimental group infants had no illness 97 (41%) were as in control group majority of infants 137 (59%) had illness in which 48 (35%) had exhibited minor illness, 63 (46%) had exhibited moderate illness and 26 (19%) infant’s exhibited severe illness. It showed that experimental group infant’s exhibited lesser illness compared to control group infants. Conclusion: A further counseling session, health education on complementary feeding were arranged for both the groups of participant mothers who belongs to moderate and inadequate knowledge score in posttest.