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- Title
Compliance to Prescription of Routine Vitamin D Supplementation in Infants.
- Authors
Meena, Pinky; Saran, Amar Nath; Shah, Dheeraj; Gupta, Piyush
- Abstract
We assessed compliance to routine vitamin D supplementation in 330 infants (age 6 wk to 9 mo), who were prescribed supplemen-tation at birth. 137 (41.5%) had received vitamin D supplemen-tation at some point of time till enrolment. Median (IQR) compliance to routine vitamin D supplementation was 66.7% (50%, 83.3%) in those who ever received supplementation. Only 29 (8.8%) were receiving appropriate routine vitamin D supple-mentation in terms of dose, frequency and duration. There was low level of reinforcement (35%) from healthcare workers and low parental awareness (34%) of the need of supplementation.
- Subjects
VITAMIN D; INFANTS; MEDICAL prescriptions; PATIENT compliance; PARENT attitudes; DIETARY supplements
- Publication
Indian Pediatrics, 2020, Vol 57, Issue 11, p1067
- ISSN
0019-6061
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1007/s13312-020-2037-x