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Consumption of food is a dynamic which is determine by quickly changing tendency in food practices for infants and difficult to understand what children are being fed and how practices are alternating. The study was to assess the video assisted teaching on knowledge regarding weaning among mothers of infants attending paediatric OPD at SRH. Quantitative, pre experimental non randomized one group pretest and posttest design, convenient sampling technique was used to collect the 120 sample paediatric OPD.Self structured knowledge questionnaire was administered during pretest and video assisted teaching was given about 30 minutes as an intervention. After 7th day posttest was conducted through what's app. About 3% of mothers had inadequate and 93% of mothers had moderately adequate and 6% of mothers had adequate knowledge level in pretest where as in posttest 14% of mothers had moderate level and 86% of mothers had adequate level knowledge on weaning. The mean posttest knowledge score of mothers of infant was 17.49 with SD=1.914 was highly significant difference in pretest mean score was 11.08 with SD=2.164 and computer paired t test value t=35.867. The study concludes that video assisted teaching programme was effective on knowledge regarding weaning among mothers of infants.
Keywords: Video assisted teaching, Knowledge, Weaning, Mothers of infant
Introduction
Childhood involve lots of modification in growth, development, feeding pattern , and other functions than any other time of life. Consumption of food is a dynamic which is determine by quickly changing tendency in food practices for infants and difficult to understand what children are being fed and how practices are alternating. alternating, decreases the risk of poor eating habits, and develop empirical feeding recommendations. (Agedew, E., Demissie, M., Misker, D. and Haftu, D., 2014).
Breastfeeding is a instinctive and good source of nutrition which gives the healthiest start for an infant. Along with the nutritional benefits, breastfeeding promotes a unique and emotional bonding between mother and baby. First six months of life exclusively breast fed the baby, followed by breastfeeding need to introduce complementary foods .Breast milk is the ideal first food for the baby for the first six months of life. (Arage, G. and Gedamu, H., 2016)
Weaning influence lot of changes in both mental and emotional growth of the baby. During weaning...