Data Sheet 1_Parents knowledge, attitude, and practice on nutrition of child with severe acute malnutrition in Awi Zone public Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia, 2023.docx

BackgroundIncorrect or insufficient child nutrition predisposing for different disease and crisis. Even it is stated at different countries, there are no studies in Ethiopia specifically in the Amara Region Awi Zone public hospitals, Northwest of Ethiopia to investigate parental nutritional awareness in childhood.
ObjectivesTo investigate parental nutritional knowledge, attitude, and practice in childhood in Awi Zone public Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia.
MethodsA cross-sectional study design with a purposive convenience sampling method was done among 297 participants. Parents of children with severe acute malnutrition were invited to complete adapted questionnaires. Details of parents’ nutritional awareness (knowledge, practice, and attitude) were assessed in face-to-face structured health interviews with the data collectors. The collected data were checked, coded, and entered into Epi-info version 7 and exported to SPSS version 23 for further analysis. Descriptive statistics was applied.
ResultsA total of 297 parents were involved with the mean age 29.66 ± 6.27 years. About 93% of parents were heard about their child’s nutrition and 66.6% resided in rural. Overall parent’s good knowledge, favorable attitude, and poor practice toward child nutrition were 50.8%, 21.2%, and 89.6%, respectively. Health institution delivery, 1.61 and 4.39 times were associated with Knowledge and attitude, respectively and good practice 2.42 times associated with Knowledge. Children with comorbidities were 4.7 and 2.32 time associated with parents’ attitude and practice, respectively.
ConclusionParental awareness toward child nutrition is considered a significant target for public health interventions. Delivery site, presence of comorbidities, and practice were the significant factors associated with parents’ awareness. The majority of parents were aware of the positive impact of child nutrition on overall wellbeing. The State of Awi Zone, Northwest Ethiopia, would be cost-effective to train and professionally develop the Awi Zone public Hospitals and primary healthcare workers to be more experts in tackling parents’ nutritional awareness by providing family counseling.

背景：儿童营养摄入不当或不足会增加罹患各类疾病及陷入健康危机的风险。尽管此类问题在多国均有报道，但埃塞俄比亚西北部阿姆哈拉州阿维区域的公立医院中，尚无针对儿童期父母营养认知开展的专项研究。
研究目的：旨在探究埃塞俄比亚西北部阿维区域公立医院内，儿童照护父母的儿童营养知识、态度及实践现状。
研究方法：本研究采用横断面研究设计，通过目的便利抽样法招募297名研究对象。研究邀请重症急性营养不良患儿的父母填写经过改编的调查问卷，由调研人员通过面对面结构化健康访谈，对父母的儿童营养认知（包括知识、态度与实践）进行详细评估。收集到的数据经核查、编码后录入流行病学信息系统（Epi Info）7.0版本，随后导出至统计产品与服务解决方案（SPSS）23版本进行后续分析，分析方法采用描述性统计。
研究结果：本研究共纳入297名父母，其平均年龄为29.66±6.27岁。约93%的父母了解儿童营养相关知识，66.6%的研究对象居住于农村地区。整体而言，对儿童营养具备良好知识、持有积极态度及实践不佳的父母占比分别为50.8%、21.2%和89.6%。医疗机构分娩与父母的儿童营养知识、态度分别呈1.61倍、4.39倍的相关性；良好的儿童营养实践与知识呈2.42倍的相关性。合并症患儿的父母，其儿童营养态度及实践分别与患儿合并症呈4.7倍、2.32倍的相关性。
研究结论：父母的儿童营养认知可作为公共卫生干预的重要目标。分娩地点、患儿合并症情况及父母实践行为是与父母儿童营养认知相关的显著影响因素。绝大多数父母均了解儿童营养对个体整体健康的积极作用。针对埃塞俄比亚西北部阿维区域，通过开展家庭咨询培训，对阿维区域公立医院及基层医疗卫生人员进行专业能力提升，以强化其针对父母儿童营养认知的干预能力，具备较高的成本效益。