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August 5, 2025

Determinants of Complementary Feeding among Mothers with Children Aged 6–23 Months in Kinondoni, Tanzania: Community-based cross-sectional study

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MSMagnus Michael SichalweMBManas Ranjan BeheraDBDeepanjali Behera

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Community-based cross-sectional study reveals low timely initiation of complementary feeding, indicating maternal age and knowledge as significant factors.

Key Points

  • Only 43.4% of mothers initiated complementary feeding at six months or later, indicating a need for improvement.
  • Mothers aged 35 and above were twice as likely to initiate complementary feeding on time compared to younger mothers.
  • Feeding children four or more times daily significantly increased the likelihood of timely initiation by 65%.
  • Maternal knowledge about early breastfeeding initiation crucially affects complementary feeding practices, suggesting a need for targeted education.

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Sichalwe et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/689a0f93e6551bb0af8d120dhttps://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7284488/v1
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