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- Title
FEEDING OF CHILDREN BORN WITH LOW WEIGHT IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE.
- Authors
Lutz Martins, Elaine; de Mello Padoin, Stela Maris; Peripolli Rodrigues, Andressa; Spiegelberg Zuge, Samuel; Cardoso de Paula, Cristiane; Correa Trojahn, Tatiane
- Abstract
Objectives: to identify the prevalence of the types of feedings, up to one year old of life, of newborns with low weight discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Methods: a quantitative and cross-sectional research, developed in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, in the period of August to October 2011. The population was composed by 66 newborns with low weight, with data collection through telephone when the child was one year old. It was developed a descriptive analysis of the variables. Results: it was found that 77, 3% of newborns with low weight gave discharge from the unit with prescription of mixed breastfeeding; however, when they arrived home, 45, 5% received artificial feeding. On the fourth months old the type of feeding was, in 39, 4%, any type of milk, with pap, mashes, juices and peeled fruits, and the same food was used in 71,2% of newborns at six months old and on the first year of life, 75, 8% were fed with any kind of milk and food equal to the family. Conclusions: it was identified the need to develop health education that emphasizes breastfeeding on the first six months of life and complemented after this age.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; NUTRITION disorders in infants; ACADEMIC medical centers; BIRTH weight; LOW birth weight; BOTTLE feeding; BREASTFEEDING; BREASTFEEDING promotion; FAMILIES; FOOD; GESTATIONAL age; HEALTH attitudes; INFANT formulas; PREMATURE infants; INFANT nutrition; INTERVIEWING; LONGITUDINAL method; RESEARCH methodology; NEONATAL intensive care; NURSES; OCCUPATIONAL roles; QUANTITATIVE research; NEONATAL intensive care units; DISCHARGE planning; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Ciencia, Cuidado e Saude, 2013, Vol 12, Issue 3, p517
- ISSN
1677-3861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v12i3.19527