Child feeding practices of mothers in Tharu community of Nawalparasi
| dc.contributor.advisor | Shyam Prasad Sedai | |
| dc.contributor.author | Devkota, Hari Prasad | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-11T09:30:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-11T09:30:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The main objective of this study was to find out child feeding practices of mothers in Tharu community of Nawalparasi district. Among the 186 Tharu families in the Bhagara Village,of Tamsariya, 100 families were taken for the study. The sampling procedure was the purposive and random selection.Therefore all the respondents in this study were mothers having below 60 years. The respondent mothers were interviewed in their own house by using interview schedule. Analysis of data reveals that the total population of female is less than that of male.An over whelming percentage of women respondents were found engaging in agriculture occupation. Most of the respondents had 3 to 15 Katthas of land. Majority of the respondents (82%) feed colostrums to their baby and(46%)percent of the respondent were breast fed their children up to 24 months. About 67% of the respondents were fed their child less than 6 times per day and 33% mothers fed their children more than 6 times per day. Nearly half of the mothers initiated weaning tothe child at age 5 to 6 months. The knowledge of immunization was found satisfactory and the treatment practices of kwashiorkor and marasomus, also found satisfactory. Most of the respondents used"Jeevanjal" during diarrhea. Thus the finding of this study showed that many practices of feeding young children and child care practices was so poor, due to the lack of awareness, poverty and illiteracy. So better feeding practices of Tharu mothers on be expected by their better education of health. The feeding practices and child care practices of Tharu mothers indicated and urgent need of such study to be conducted broadly and frequently in rural area of Nepal to assist the existing situation of child feeding and their carepractice programme, health education and personal hygiene in rural area. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/23376 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.subject | Child feeding | |
| dc.subject | Tharu community | |
| dc.title | Child feeding practices of mothers in Tharu community of Nawalparasi | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| local.academic.level | Masters | |
| local.affiliatedinstitute.title | Bal Kumari College, Chitwan, Narayangadh |