Effect of Educational Programs on Mothers` Knowledge and Children`s Nutritional Status : Narrative Review
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Background: The role of the mothers is very important in providing care and monitor their children`s health in general. Their awareness concerning quality of foods which is needed for each child`s developmental stage can affect on nutritional status. Traditional feeding practices, socioeconomic status, and educational level influence directly on quality of nutrition requirement. It is possible to raise mothers` awareness through engagement in a design educational programs related feeding practices for children, especially those under five years, in order to correct the misunderstanding of common concepts of feeding practices and promote child`s nutritional status.
Aim: To explore the effect of the previous nutrition education programs that provided to mothers to rise their knowledge and its influence on children nutritional status.
Methods: A systematic search procedure which applied to explore the effect of education program on mother's knowledge and their children nutritional status. approach to synthesis was used. Both published and grey literature written in English via a structured search of the following databases: PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, Open Grey and ScienceDirect. In addition, search engines were used to identify additional grey literature using the same search strategy.
Results: of the selected publications was determined by reviewing their titles, key words, and abstracts. Overall a total 9nutrition education programs on mother of and 7 for children nutrition status reviews were included in this review.
Conclusions: Nutrition education for mother is an important measure to improve dietary habits and food choices, since poor dietary habits are the main reason for poor nutritional status of children .
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