Appropriate complementary feeding practice and associated factors among mothers having children aged 6–24 months in Debre Tabor Hospital, North West Ethiopia, 2016 | BMC Research Notes | Full Text

Appropriate complementary feeding practice and associated factors among mothers having children aged 6–24 months in Debre Tabor Hospital, North West Ethiopia, 2016 | BMC Research Notes | Full Text

BMC Research Notes

Appropriate complementary feeding practice and associated factors among mothers having children aged 6–24 months in Debre Tabor Hospital, North West Ethiopia, 2016

• Asrat Hailu Dagne,
• Kiber Temesgen Anteneh,
• Marta Berta Badi,
• Hadgay Hagos Adhanu,
• Mekonnen Assefa Ahunie,
• H/Mariam Demewozu Tebeje and
• Getie Lake AynalemEmail author

BMC Research Notes201912:215

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4259-3

©  The Author(s) 2019

• Received: 18 March 2019
• Accepted: 3 April 2019
• Published: 8 April 2019

Abstract

Objective

This study was aimed to assess appropriate complementary feeding practice and associated factors among mothers having children aged 6–24 months in Debre Tabor Hospital, North West Ethiopia, 2016.

Results

In this study, 37.2% of mothers had appropriate complementary feeding practice. Mothers’ level of education above grade 12 (AOR = 2.96, CI 1.2–7.62), husbands’ occupation (AOR = 4.01, CI 1.3–12.44), mothers ‘having exclusive breast feeding practice (AOR = 6.12, CI 3.04–12.3), health education about exclusive breast feeding during antenatal care visit (AOR = 5.59, CI 1.24–25.17) and advice on appropriate complementary feeding practice during antenatal care visit (AOR = 6.34, CI 1.5–26.91), and mothers who have got under 5 unit service due to infant and young children illness (AOR = 0.44, CI 0.22–0.89) were statistically significant variables for appropriate complementary feeding practice.

Keywords

• Appropriate
• Infant and young children
• Complementary feeding
• Ethiopia