TY - JOUR AU - Sehgal, Shruti AU - Shankar, Rama AU - Muzammil, Khursheed AU - Raghav, Santosh PY - 2020/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A Comparative Study of infant and young child feeding practices (IYCF) and nutritional status under two years of age JF - Indian Journal of Community Health JA - Indian J Community Health VL - 32 IS - 3 SE - Original Article DO - 10.47203/IJCH.2020.v32i03.006 UR - https://www.iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/1860 SP - 493 - 498 AB - <p><strong>Background:</strong> Infant and young child feeding is a key area to improve child survival and promote healthy growth and development. NFHS-4 2015-16 reveals improvement in EBF from 46.4% (NFHS-3) to 54.9% in India. Improvement is less in urban area (46.8%) as compared to rural area (54.2%). NFHS 4 reveals decline in EBF from 51.3% (NFHS-3) to 41.6% in Uttar Pradesh. <strong>Aims &amp; Objectives</strong>: To compare the finding of feeding practices and nutritional status between urban and rural children. <strong>Settings and Design</strong>: Conducted in the field practice areas of Rural and Urban Health training centre of Muzaffarnagar Medical College. A list of all the registered children up to two years of age was obtained. Period of study was one year. <strong>Methods and Material</strong>: The sample size calculated using prevalence for urban and rural at 12% permissible error of P. The total sample size (250+ 660) 910 was taken. Statistical analysis used: The data analysed using StatCalc version 8.2.2 software. <strong>Results</strong>: 43.6% of the children were being exclusively breastfed in rural areas vis-à-vis 29.8% in urban areas. 40.4% were timely fed and 24% were late in starting complementary feeding. Appropriate caloric intake was seen only in 37.9% children. Maximum appropriate intake was there in 0-6 month’s children (62.8%) and this progressively decreased as the age increased, to 40.5%, 17.1% at 6-12 month’s, 12-24 months respectively. Thus age was significantly associated with mean deficiency of calories (p&lt;0.0001). <strong>Conclusions</strong>: Age of the child was found to be associated with mean deficiency of calories. 33.3% of children fell in the category of wasting and 48.6% of children were stunted</p> ER -