关键词: 离乳食, 离乳期, 婴幼儿, 营养性贫血, 农村

Abstract: Objective To explore the effects of inventions on home-made weaning food for infants since 6 to 11 months after birth to improve feeding and infants' nutrition status. Methods A total of 263 children aged 6~11 months old were enrolled and assigned to the intervention group (n=149) and the control group (n=114),and completed 6 months of investigation.In the intervention group,the child caregivers received health education on in-time meat introduction,dietary diversity in term of vegetable and anemia source food via village health workers conducting.The effects were evaluated via Hb and feeding practices indicators (WHO 2008 version). Results The paired t test showed that the main effects of Hb increasing were higher in the intervention group than the control group after 3 months [(2.65±14.38)g/L vs(-0.18±11.21)g/L,P= 0.074)] and significantly after 6 months [(8.33±15.85)g/L vs (4.32±14.00)g/L,P=0.034].The proportion of minimum dietary diversity was remarkable higher in the intervention groups than the control group after 3 month (89.9% vs 78.9%,P=0.014),but not significantly after 6 months (83.1% vs 86.8%,P=0.405).The estimated amount of meat intake in the previous day was higher in the intervention group than those in the control group [(6.94±9.07) g vs (2.42±6.10) g,P=0.000] after three months and six months [(7.96±13.90) g vs (4.47±9.194.54±9.19) g,P=0.024]. Conclusions There are effects on Hb increasing and nutritional anemia decreasing by improvement of home-made food and weaning feeding since 6~11 months after birth,in term of increasing meat intake and dietary diversity.The increase of meat intake in the previous day indicated nutritional effect clearly,though less than the recommendation by national and aboard guidelines.

Key words: weaning food, weaning period, infant, nutritional anemia, rural areas