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Item Knowledge Attitude and Practice of Complementary Feeding among Mothers and Pattern of Growth in their Infants and Children(Society for Scientific Research, 2024-01) Panigrahi, B; Panda, S; Mohanty, M; Satapathy, J; Behera, JMBackground: India has about 60 million underweight children who face detrimental outcomes, making it one of the countries with the worst rates of child undernutrition in the world. India faces challenges in achieving its development and growth goals due to persistent undernutrition, which mostly impacts the weak and needy. Undernutrition is the reason behind almost one-third of fatalities in children under the age of five. Methods: A cross-sectional research using questionnaires was conducted on 320 mothers and their children visiting paediatric outpatient departments (OPDs) and IPDs at SCB Medical College and SVPPGIP. The standard WHO growth chart was used to depict the development parameters of mothers' children aged 6 months to 2 years, together with an assessment of their knowledge and practice of supplemental feeding. Results: This study was conducted using a prospective questionnaire-based approach in the context of a tertiary medical college and hospital. The moms' level of knowledge and the complementary feeding practices' patterns were evaluated. When the mothers in this study were asked to rate their level of expertise about home-based food introduction, 81.6% of them said they knew enough about the introduction of semisolid and solid foods to their diet in addition to breast-feeding, 12.5% said they knew enough about adding only infant formula to their child's meal, and the remaining mothers did not know enough about complementary feeding. Conclusion: Emphasizing the need for larger, multicenter studies for enhanced validity, the research sheds light on current maternal knowledge and practices, urging future comprehensive investigations to address the complexities of child undernutrition.