Effectiveness of nutrition training of health workers toward improving caregivers' feeding practices for children aged six months to two years: A systematic review

Nutrition Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sunguya, Bruno F ^a   Poudel, Krishna C ^b,c   Mlunde, Linda B ^a   Shakya, Prakash ^a   Urassa, David P ^d   Jimba, Masamine ^a   Yasuoka, Junko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Dietary diversity; Energy intake; Feeding frequency; Health workers; Meta analysis; Nutrition training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CALORIC INTAKE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

CAREGIVERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUNSELING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENERGY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFANT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84877861084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2891-12-66     Document Type: Article

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