Department Family and Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq.
Georgian Med News. 2024 Jan(346):128-131.
Weaning is an organized process of introduction of appropriate food at the accurate time in addition to the mother's milk to deliver essential nourishment to the baby and the infants should be breastfed completely through the early six months of life. Aim of the study - Assessment of the Mothers' awareness (knowledge, attitude, and practice) and to determine possible factors affecting it. A total sample of 112 mothers enrolled in the present study, from which data was collected including demographic characteristics of the child and mother with feeding history. Knowledge and practice assessment regarding the weaning process. Appropriate time of introduction of complementary feeds was started in 41.1% of the children. 69.6% weaned their children suddenly cessed. Factors influencing complementary and weaning knowledge were the mother's education and occupation and source of information and practice was poorly achieved, and the factors were the mother's age and type of family. The approval for WHO recommendations on complementary and weaning practices was not optimum. It is consequently a significant point to change the interventions at joining the hole between these practices in urban locations and WHO endorsements.
断奶是一个有组织的过程，即在母乳喂养之外，在准确的时间引入适当的食物，为婴儿提供必要的营养。婴儿应该在生命的最初六个月完全母乳喂养。本研究的目的是评估母亲的意识（知识、态度和实践），并确定可能影响其的因素。共有 112 名母亲参与了本研究，从中收集了包括儿童和母亲的人口统计学特征以及喂养史在内的数据。评估了关于断奶过程的知识和实践。在 41.1%的儿童中，适当的补充喂养开始时间。69.6%的母亲突然断奶。影响补充喂养知识的因素是母亲的教育和职业以及信息来源，实践效果不佳的因素是母亲的年龄和家庭类型。对世卫组织关于补充喂养和断奶实践的建议的认可并非最佳。因此，在城市地区和世卫组织的认可之间，改变这些实践之间的干预措施是一个重要的关注点。
