Nutritional Status and Feeding Patterns of Selected Children Aged 6-24 Months in Rohingya Refugee Camp

Abstract

The study was carried out to investigate the nutritional status and feeding patterns of selected children aged 6-24 months in Rohingya Refugee Camps. Total 400 mothers with their children were randomly chosen for this purpose. In this study, 3 to 6 family size were 67%, 7 to 12 family size were 31% and 13 to 16 family size were 2%. Maximum fathers (89%) and mothers (91%) were illiterate. In children MAM was found 59% and at Risk was found 41%. In 24 hours starch, protein, vegetable, sugar, breast milk, fruits, drinks and miscellaneous intake were 92%, 88%, 62%, 7%, 78%, 26%, 4% and 37% respectively. No bottle feeding was100%. Early introducing of complementary feeding were 56%. Among mothers knew the complementary feeding 73%. The children are daily feeding times were less than 3 times (24%), 4 times (33%), 5 times (30%) and 6 times (13%). Most of the children consumed rice and also meat, fish, egg, vegetables and outside snacks were intake sometimes. All the children’s mother was maintained hygiene properly.