Complementary feeding based on local-food to improve mother ability in fulfillment nutrition stunted children

Mothers have the ability to provide adequate nutrition for their children. The role of providing nutrition to children aged 6-24 months who are stunted correlated to the mother's ability to provide proper nutrition. The role of mother can be carried out using the ability, confidence, and self-capacity to complete tasks, managing and providing nutrition to children aged 6-24 months who are stunted. This study aimed to analyze complementary feeding based on local food to improve the mothers' ability to fulfill their needs in stunted children.

A pre-experiment design was used to obtain data regarding 180 mothers who participated in this study. The complementary feeding based on local- food was conducted for 9 weeks, comprising 2 weeks preintervention, 6 weeks of intervention, and one-week postintervention. The intervention consists of 12 sets of recipes to be made by mothers and given to their children 4 times daily over 6 weeksinstrument using Infant and Young Children Feeding Practice and Structure questionnaire. Data analysis in this study used Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test.

The result of this study showed that complementary feeding based on local- food could give the impact mothers ability in food preparation and processing before complementary feeding (Z=11.644 and pvalue= 0.000), supplemental feeding (Z=-11.641 and p-value 0.000), and responsive feeding (Z-11.640 and p-value 0.000). The role of feeding responsiveness in accelerated growth. These results prove that self-feeding and maternal verbal responsiveness can be increased by targeting specific behaviours with appropriate behaviour change modeling and coaching practice strategies.

These results provide evidence that focusing on specific behaviours and implementing modification techniques such as modeling and coached practice, complementary feeding based on local food, self-feeding, and maternal verbal responsiveness can be improved.