Impact of COVID-19 on optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices in Mzimba North District
| dc.contributor.author | Msadala, Sonintcho Chisomo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T11:50:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T11:50:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-05-21 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Type of research study: Mixed methods study using cross sectional survey and qualitative data collection The problem: COVID-19 response has resulted in health systems shifting focus and resources away from traditional services and this has disrupted provision of such essential services as nutrition education in Mzimba district. This has arisen from task shifting of health care personnel away from nutrition services to COVID-19, disruption to programming from COVID-19 service, gathering and movement restrictions thereby affecting child clinics and community nutrition services, worsening of household incomes and livelihoods and rising case of food insecurity. Optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) which enhances child nutrition has been affected greatly as interventions geared towards achieving such cannot be achieved due to the aforementioned distortions hence escalating child malnutrition. Objectives: The main objective of the study is to explore implications of COVID 19 on optimal infant and young child feeding practices. Specifically, the study aims at describing the effect of COVID-19 on Optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices (timely introduction of complementary food, dietary diversity, meal frequency); describing impact of COVID-19 on proportions of children meeting Minimum Acceptable Diets (MAD) which is a composite indicator for the proportion of children meeting both the minimum dietary diversity and minimum meal frequency; describing patterns of consumption of iron rich foods uptake amongst 6-23 month old infants and children in Mzimba district and describing the effect of COVID-19 on nutrition education service provision in Mzimba district. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Kamuzu University of Health Sciences | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://rscarchive.kuhes.ac.mw/handle/20.500.12988/557 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Kamuzu University of Health Sciences | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Ethics Protocol;P.01/21/3239 | |
| dc.title | Impact of COVID-19 on optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices in Mzimba North District | en_US |
| dc.type | Plan or blueprint | en_US |