Complementary feeding based on local-food to improve mother ability in fulfillment nutrition stunted children

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.