@article{jnh2020813,
author={{Ahmad, Sunmoon and Rahman, Md. Nahian and Nadia, Rowshan Ara},
title={Household Dietary Diversity and Its Association with Mother¡¯s Nutritional Knowledge and Nutritional Status of under Five Children in Selected District of Bangladesh},
journal={World Journal of Nutrition and Health},
volume={8},
number={1},
pages={13--15},
year={2020},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/jnh/8/1/3},
issn={2379-7827},
abstract={Malnutrition is one of the most alarming health problems worldwide. Malnutrition is found to be the underlying contributing factor in about 45% of all child deaths, making children more vulnerable to severe diseases. The objective of the study was to identify association of Household Dietary Diversity and Mother¡¯s nutritional knowledge with the nutritional status of under five children in selected study area. A cross sectional study was conducted for this study where about 41.4% of the children were found stunted and about 26.7% of the children were found wasted in the study area. 2% of the children belonged to families with poor food consumption score and 21.3% belonged to families with borderline food consumption score. 41.03% of the children belonged to mothers with poor nutritional knowledge and 56.41% with good nutritional knowledge. To reduce the rate of malnutrition government level measures and steps should be taken to promote nutrition.},
doi={10.12691/jnh-8-1-3}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}