Capacity on nutrition in malnourished mothers with children through the educational module “feeding with love”

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Currently, information about attitudes and perceptions of mothers regarding feeding their chil- dren healthy during the first 6 years of life is limited, this actually motivated us to develop the study giving a real and useful approach to interventions education and nutrition, by posing as objective: to determine the effect of the educational module “Feeding with Love” in the capacity of nutrition in mothers with malnouri- shed children. The hypothesis was: the implementation of the educational module “Feeding with Love” has a positive effect on the capacity of healthy nutrition in mothers with malnourished children METHOD: The type of study applied technology, the pre-experimental design with one group of 28 mothers selected by intentional non-probabilistic sampling. Data collection was performed using a semi-structured questionnaire and an observation guide for evaluating the results. RESULTS: The results highlight that after the imple- mentation of the educational module mothers 82.14% (23) achieved adequate knowledge about healthy nutrition and practices of food preparation, including pro- per hand washing demonstrating the effectiveness of Module education in changing knowledge and practice healthy eating mothers with malnourished children.