Knowledge and practice of child feeding among Tibet mothers with small children in Lhasa rural area

Objective To describe the knowledge,attitude and practice of child feeding among Tibet mothers with small children in Lhasa rural area.Methods with a cross sectional study,participants were selected from the mothers with children under 2 years old and interviewed face-to-face about their feeding knowledge,attitude and practice.Related sociode mographic and environmental information were also collected.Results Three hundred and eighty-six mothers were surveyed.The breastfeeding rate was 88.6%.The time of adding wate,rsugar wate,rtsampa was within 4 months after the birth among more than 80% of infants of the mothers.Gruel,egg,meat,vegetable,and fruit were added 6 months after the birth.Half of the mothers believed that supplem entary food should be added 6 months after the birth of the infant.40% of the mothers believed that solid food should be added at age of 12 months.Mothers' feeding knowledge and actual practice was not consistent.Conclusion The Tibet mothers in Lhasa lack the knowledge about infant and young child feeding and take unreasonable supplementary feeding.