Lily Appoh|Sturla Krekling
Maternal nutritional knowledge and child nutritional status in the Volta Region of Ghana
Norwegian University of Science and Technology|Norwegian University of Science and Technology
relationship mothers nutritional knowledge maternal education child nutritional status weightforage subject investigation study data collected ghana 55 well nourished 55 malnourished motherchild pairs questionnaire designed collect data mothers knowledge practices related child care nutrition administered mothers data mothers demographic socioeconomic characteristics well child anthropometric data also collected nutrition knowledge score calculated based mothers responses nutrition related items bivariate analysis gave significant associations child nutritional status following variables time initiating breastfeeding mothers knowledge importance colostrum whether colostrum given child age introduction supplementary food mothers knowledge causes kwashiorkor two groups also showed significant differences nutrition knowledge scores maternal formal education marital status also found associated child nutritional status bivariate analyses analysis logistic regression revealed maternal nutrition knowledge independently associated nutritional status effects significant variables controlled maternal education hand found independently associated nutritional status results imply mothers practical knowledge nutrition may important formal maternal education child nutrition outcome