Table 3.

Nutritional status, dietary, and health history of children with congenital heart disease in selected governmental hospitals and cardiac center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2021).

Variables	ACHD		CCHD
	Freq. (298)	Perc. (%)	Freq. (75)	Perc. (%)
Having information about nutrition
Yes	166	55.7	49	65.3
No	132	44.3	26	34.7
Is the child under 60 months
Yes	104	34.9	28	37.3
No	194	65.1	47	63.7
When start breastfeeding
With one hour	64	61.5	19	67.9
After one hour	40	38.5	9	32.1
Does your children get colostrum
Yes	77	74	24	85.7
No	27	26	4	14.3
Do you still breastfeed
Yes	77	74	21	75
No	27	26	7	25
Frequency of breastfeeding per day
<8 times	67	84.1	2	9.5
8 and above times	10	14.9	19	90.5
Do you start bottle-feeding
Yes	71	69.2	17	60.7
No	33	31.8	11	39.3
Have you started complementary feeding
Yes	73	70.2	23	82.1
No	31	29.8	5	17.9
At what age have you started complementary feeding
<6 month	61	83.6	21	91.3
6 month and above	12	16.4	2	8.7
Does the child has feeding difficulty
Yes	144	51.7	35	43.3
No	154	48.3	40	46.7
Dietary history for age above 50 months
Good	184	68.9	45	64.3
Poor	83	31.1	25	35.7
Nutritional status
Well nourished	106	35.6	50	66.7
Malnutrition	192	64.4	25	33.3
Does your child got sick in the past two weeks
Yes	111	62.8	19	23.3
No	187	37.2	56	76.7