Household Dietary Diversity and Its Association with Mother’s Nutritional Knowledge and Nutritional Status of under Five Children in Selected District of Bangladesh

Sunmoon Ahmad^1, , Md. Nahian Rahman² and Rowshan Ara Nadia³

¹Nutrition Coordinator, World Vision International, Bangladesh

²MS, Institute of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

³Center Supervisor-Nutrition, World Vision International, Bangladesh

Cite this paper:
Sunmoon Ahmad, Md. Nahian Rahman and Rowshan Ara Nadia. Household Dietary Diversity and Its Association with Mother’s Nutritional Knowledge and Nutritional Status of under Five Children in Selected District of Bangladesh. World Journal of Nutrition and Health. 2020; 8(1):13-15. doi: 10.12691/jnh-8-1-3

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.

Keywords:
Household dietary diversity (HDD) mother’s nutritional knowledge nutritional status children bangladesh

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