Peer-reviewed article
Complementary feeding based on local-food to improve mother ability in fulfillment nutrition stunted children.
P H Apriyani, W K Ardhiles, R Fani, D Soares, W Shinta et al. ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This study tested whether teaching mothers to prepare complementary meals using local foods could improve their ability to properly feed stunted children aged 6-24 months. Researchers worked with 180 mothers over 9 weeks, teaching them 12 recipes to prepare and serve 4 times daily. The intervention significantly improved mothers' skills in food preparation, responsive feeding, and their communication with children during meals.
Key points
- Complementary feeding based on local foods improved mothers' ability in food preparation and processing (p=0.000)
- Maternal responsive feeding and supplemental feeding practices significantly improved (p=0.000)
- Self-feeding and maternal verbal responsiveness increased through behaviour change modeling and coaching
- Intervention lasted 6 weeks with 12 recipe sets taught to mothers
- Study measured outcomes using Infant and Young Children Feeding Practice and Structure questionnaire
Limitations
The study has no control group for comparison, so we cannot determine whether improvements were due to the intervention specifically or other factors. The document does not report whether stunting outcomes in children improved, only that maternal practices changed.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Mothers have the ability to provide adequate nutrition for their children. The role of providing nutrition to children aged 6-24 months who are stunted correlated to the mother's ability to provide proper nutrition. The role of mother can be carried out using the ability, confidence, and self-capacity to complete tasks, managing and providing nutrition to children aged 6-24 months who are stunted. This study aimed to analyze complementary feeding based on local food to improve the mothers' ability to fulfill their needs in stunted children. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A pre-experiment design was used to obtain data regarding 180 mothers who participated in this study. The complementary feeding based on local- food was conducted for 9 weeks, comprising 2 weeks preintervention, 6 weeks of intervention, and one-week postintervention. The intervention consists of 12 sets of recipes to be made by mothers and given to their children 4 times daily over 6 weeksinstrument using Infant and Young Children Feeding Practice and Structure questionnaire. Data analysis in this study used Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. RESULTS: The result of this study showed that complementary feeding based on local- food could give the impact mothers ability in food preparation and processing before complementary feeding (Z=11.644 and pvalue= 0.000), supplemental feeding (Z=-11.641 and p-value 0.000), and responsive feeding (Z-11.640 and p-value 0.000). The role of feeding responsiveness in accelerated growth. These results prove that self-feeding and maternal verbal responsiveness can be increased by targeting specific behaviours with appropriate behaviour change modeling and coaching practice strategies. CONCLUSION: These results provide evidence that focusing on specific behaviours and implementing modification techniques such as modeling and coached practice, complementary feeding based on local food, self-feeding, and maternal verbal responsiveness can be improved.