Impact of nutrition education on health of the mother and newborn belonging to the poor urban slum community.
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1997-07-01
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To find the nutritional knowledge among mothers of one child of the poor community and to relate status of education to the nutritional health of them and the newborn and to get a thorough knowledge on the impact of nutritional education, a comprehensive study was undertaken in an urban slum area. Nutritional grading was done through scoring system. There were 47 mothers (24.1%) out of 195 having normal nutritional grade and 37 mothers (19%) having severe nutritional grade. There were 80 mothers having 'no knowledge' on maternal nutrition. 'Adequate knowledge' was found in 31 cases. Mothers (n = 80) of 'no knowledge' delivered babies of average weight 2.3 kg whereas 'adequate knowledge' mothers gave birth to babies of average weight 2.9 kg.
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Sur D, Mukhopadhyay SP, Biswas R. Impact of nutrition education on health of the mother and newborn belonging to the poor urban slum community. Journal of the Indian Medical Association. 1997 Jul; 95(7): 424-5