Table 2.
Feeding practice of children aged 6–59 months attending health service at Tirunesh Beijing hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2022.
Variables | Category | Number | Percent (%) |
---|---|---|---|
Dietary diversity | Lower | 103 | 36.4 |
Higher | 180 | 63.6 | |
Meal amount | Not appropriate | 154 | 54.4 |
Appropriate | 129 | 45.6 | |
Complementary feeding | Not appropriate | 190 | 67.1 |
Appropriate | 93 | 32.9 | |
Who feeds the child | Mother | 129 | 45.6 |
Caregiver | 154 | 54.4 | |
Currently on breast feeding | Yes | 157 | 55.5 |
No | 126 | 44.5 | |
Optimum breast feeding | Yes | 51 | 65.4 |
No | 27 | 34.6 | |
Meal frequency (per day) | Two or less | 2 | 0.7 |
Three times | 243 | 85.9 | |
Four and above | 38 | 13.4 |