A Nutrition Education Intervention Positively Affects the Diet–Health-Related Practices and Nutritional Status of Mothers and Children in a Pulse-Growing Community in Halaba, South Ethiopia
Community-based nutrition education interventions involving monthly interactive community meetings and home visits in pulse-growing communities from a resource-poor country like Ethiopia can be effective in improving mothers' knowledge of pulse nutrition and consumption frequency, leading to improvements in the DDSs of children and mothers while decreasing child underweight and wasting.
Authors
- Carol J. Henry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5982-2936)
- Gordon A. Zello (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2789-1854)
- Getahun Ersino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7341-0030)
Institutions
- Hawassa University (ET)
- University of Saskatchewan (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Children
- Published
- 2024-11-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/children11111400
- Primary Topic
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00