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KMID : 0380919830120010012
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Nutrition
1983 Volume.12 No. 1 p.12 ~ p.18
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An Ecological Survey of Early Childhood Nutrition in Whaseong - gun, Kyonggi - do
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이경자/Lee KJ
이보숙/모수미/YI BS/Mo SM
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Abstract
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An ecological survey of early childhood nutrition was conducted from January 23 to February 18, to study the feeding method and weaning practice in Whaseong-gun, Kyonggi-do. This study covered a total of 283 children.
Seventy three percent of the subjects had been breast-fed; 10% had been bottle-fed; others had been combination-fed before the introduction of supplementary foods. Only 26.9% of the subjects began to be fed supplementary food before the age of 6 months. The supplementary food used most frequently by the majority of children at the beginning of weaning was plain cooked rice; rarely special preparation, or different from the food eaten by the family. As for age of termination of breast feeding, 42.7% of the subjects were before 12 months; 32.8% were between 13 and 18 months of age; 24.5% were more than 19 months old. As for methods of stopping breast feeding, 44.5% of the subjects were naturally terminated while 38.5% were forced to terminate by the application of sticking plaster or medicines to the mother’ s nipples.
The results indicate a need for nutrition and hygiene intervention to improve the weaning practice of rural area through the community nutrition education.
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