Determinant Factors of Maternal Knowledge on Appropriate Complementary Feeding of Children Aged 6-23 Months in Aceh.

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study was determine mothers knowladge on appropriate complementary feeding of children aged 6-23 mo. A cross-sectional design was applied on 392 mothers of children aged 6-23 mo selected through a cluster sampling in Aceh Besar District Aceh Province Indonesia. Data on mothers knowledge and determinant factors included socio-demographic of mothers were collected using valid and reliable structured questionnaire. The data was analyzed using binary logistic regression at 95% confident interval. Overall, there was less than one-fourth (20.2%) of the mothers have good knowledge on appropriate Complementary feeding. Education level of mothers were significantly associated with mothers knowledge, mothers who have education level elementary school, junior high school and senior high school higher risk of having low knowledge on appropriate complementary feeding (OR=3.11, OR=5.22 and OR=10.20) than those have graduted level. Therefore, an effort and a research to developing nutrition education model is warranted to improving knowledge and skill of mothers is important.