Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Mothers on Complementary Feeding among Children aged 6-23 Months at Brikama Gidda

Complementary feeding plays a major role in the health and nutrition of growing children. Here, an attempt has been made to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers on complementary feeding among children aged 6-23 months at Brikama Gidda. The study adopted a cross-sectional study design and was carried out at Brikama Gidda among 75 mothers of children 6-23, months which were sampled by multi-stage sampling. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire which comprises of both closed-ended and open-ended questions. Data was cleaned, entered and analysed using Microsoft excel (Version 07) and R Statistical software (Version 3.3.1).The respondents were mostly young (mean age 25.89), married (69.3%), housewives (40%) with mainly secondary level of education (33%). 65.3% of mothers had average knowledge on complementary feeding out of the six (6) knowledge questions. Attitude to complementary food was also good as 78.7% of mothers strongly agreed that complementary food should be given in addition to breast milk after six months. As far as mothers’ practices of complementary feeding is concerned, 69% of mothers introduced complementary food to their children at 6 months. The knowledge, attitude and practices of mothers regarding complementary feeding is appropriate, but minimal gaps exist. Therefore, there is a need to educate mothers to ensure better growth and development of their children. Also, there is a need to conduct longitudinal research to establish whole array of factors influencing complementary feeding