Relationship between maternal health behavior and physical growth pattern of ‎children under one year referred to health departments of Rasht city

Introduction: Physical growth in infants is the most important health indicator. In fact many ‎factors influence infants physical growth. Because of complete dependence of infants to their ‎mothers and role of mother care and health behavior is important for health promotion.&lrm...

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Main Authors: afsaneh pasha, tayebeh hasan tehrani, mino mitra chehrzad, zahra atrkar roushan
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Language:English
Published: Guilan University of Medical Sciences 2005-04-01
Series:Journal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery
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Online Access:http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-243-46&slc_lang=en&sid=1
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tayebeh hasan tehrani
mino mitra chehrzad
zahra atrkar roushan
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description Introduction: Physical growth in infants is the most important health indicator. In fact many &lrm;factors influence infants physical growth. Because of complete dependence of infants to their &lrm;mothers and role of mother care and health behavior is important for health promotion.&lrm; Objective: This research is a correlational descriptive study done with the aim of determining &lrm;relationship between maternal health behaviors with physical growth pattern in children under &lrm;one year.&lrm; Methods: Data collection tool was a questionnaire including two sections: the first part &lrm;included demographic characteristics of mother and child, and second part included three &lrm;sections for measurement of health behavior about nutrition, sleep and preventing disease in &lrm;child under one year. Information related health behavior was completed with reading &lrm;questionnaire and measurement of physical growth was Recorded from file. &lrm;&rlm;362&rlm;&lrm; mother and &lrm;their children under one year were selected randomly. &lrm; Result: Research finding about physical growth of child less than one year showed that most &lrm;of them (&lrm;&rlm;57.5%&rlm;&lrm;) had unfavorable physical growth. Also the results about health preventing &lrm;indicated most of (&lrm;&rlm;57.7%&rlm;&lrm;) sample had suitable health behavior and about sleep most of (&lrm;&rlm;88.7%&rlm;&lrm;) &lrm;them have unsuitable health behaviors. Result showed that there was significant correlation &lrm;between mother health behavior in all three domains and child physical growth according to &lrm;mother and child demographic characteristics (p<&lrm;&rlm;0/001&rlm;&lrm;).&lrm; Conclusion: Results showed that most of the mothers of childern had suitable health &lrm;behavior about children nutrition (&lrm;&rlm;69.2%&rlm;&lrm;) sleep (&lrm;&rlm;19.3%&rlm;&lrm;), and prevention of disease (&lrm;&rlm;86.5%&rlm;&lrm;).And &lrm;also children had favorable physical growth and there was a significant correlation between &lrm;maternal health behavior and child physical growth pattern (p<&lrm;&rlm;0.001&rlm;&lrm;).&lrm;
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spelling doaj-art-3247ad37b7ec4054b8f8178ab415a4b52025-08-20T02:56:34ZengGuilan University of Medical SciencesJournal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery2588-37122588-37202005-04-011513238Relationship between maternal health behavior and physical growth pattern of ‎children under one year referred to health departments of Rasht cityafsaneh pasha0tayebeh hasan tehrani1mino mitra chehrzad2zahra atrkar roushan3 Introduction: Physical growth in infants is the most important health indicator. In fact many &lrm;factors influence infants physical growth. Because of complete dependence of infants to their &lrm;mothers and role of mother care and health behavior is important for health promotion.&lrm; Objective: This research is a correlational descriptive study done with the aim of determining &lrm;relationship between maternal health behaviors with physical growth pattern in children under &lrm;one year.&lrm; Methods: Data collection tool was a questionnaire including two sections: the first part &lrm;included demographic characteristics of mother and child, and second part included three &lrm;sections for measurement of health behavior about nutrition, sleep and preventing disease in &lrm;child under one year. Information related health behavior was completed with reading &lrm;questionnaire and measurement of physical growth was Recorded from file. &lrm;&rlm;362&rlm;&lrm; mother and &lrm;their children under one year were selected randomly. &lrm; Result: Research finding about physical growth of child less than one year showed that most &lrm;of them (&lrm;&rlm;57.5%&rlm;&lrm;) had unfavorable physical growth. Also the results about health preventing &lrm;indicated most of (&lrm;&rlm;57.7%&rlm;&lrm;) sample had suitable health behavior and about sleep most of (&lrm;&rlm;88.7%&rlm;&lrm;) &lrm;them have unsuitable health behaviors. Result showed that there was significant correlation &lrm;between mother health behavior in all three domains and child physical growth according to &lrm;mother and child demographic characteristics (p<&lrm;&rlm;0/001&rlm;&lrm;).&lrm; Conclusion: Results showed that most of the mothers of childern had suitable health &lrm;behavior about children nutrition (&lrm;&rlm;69.2%&rlm;&lrm;) sleep (&lrm;&rlm;19.3%&rlm;&lrm;), and prevention of disease (&lrm;&rlm;86.5%&rlm;&lrm;).And &lrm;also children had favorable physical growth and there was a significant correlation between &lrm;maternal health behavior and child physical growth pattern (p<&lrm;&rlm;0.001&rlm;&lrm;).&lrm;http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-243-46&slc_lang=en&sid=1Child Development Health Behavior Mothers
spellingShingle afsaneh pasha
tayebeh hasan tehrani
mino mitra chehrzad
zahra atrkar roushan
Relationship between maternal health behavior and physical growth pattern of ‎children under one year referred to health departments of Rasht city
Journal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery
Child Development
Health Behavior
Mothers
title Relationship between maternal health behavior and physical growth pattern of ‎children under one year referred to health departments of Rasht city
title_full Relationship between maternal health behavior and physical growth pattern of ‎children under one year referred to health departments of Rasht city
title_fullStr Relationship between maternal health behavior and physical growth pattern of ‎children under one year referred to health departments of Rasht city
title_full_unstemmed Relationship between maternal health behavior and physical growth pattern of ‎children under one year referred to health departments of Rasht city
title_short Relationship between maternal health behavior and physical growth pattern of ‎children under one year referred to health departments of Rasht city
title_sort relationship between maternal health behavior and physical growth pattern of ‎children under one year referred to health departments of rasht city
topic Child Development
Health Behavior
Mothers
url http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-243-46&slc_lang=en&sid=1
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