تأثير آموزش الگوي رفتارهاي تغذيه اي به مادران كودكان نوپا بر كيفيت تغذيه كودكان و عملكرد مادران

The effect of nutritional behavior pattern education to toddler mothers on the nutritional pattern improvement of toddlers & mothers performance

Background & Aim: Nutrition is a very important factor in toddler age growth. Gcuing started the first steps of the children with family in this period shows the necessity of paying attention to the correct nutritional behaviors. Therefore this research has been condueted for assessing the effect of nutritional behavior model on the quality of toddlerʹs nutrition and performance of their mothers. Methods & Materials: This reseurch is a semi-experimental study. in which sixty six children (12-36 months old) were selected from two health care centers in the southern part of Tehran. The subjects were selected using uon probability-convenient sampling method. The data gathering tool was 3 questionnaires: 1. Mother and child demographic characteristics 2. Motherʹs function assessment tool about toddlerʹs behavior during feediug 3. Reminding tool of 24 hours food. The tools were filled in using interviews. Then nutritional behavior model was instructed in a workshop during 2 days, 3 hours a day. After the intervention data were recollected again ,.lOU were analyzed hy descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The results showed a significant difference in motherʹs function about toddlers nutritional behavior during nutrition before and after the intervention (P