Improvement the practices of complementary feeding through local wisdom-based complementary feeding education videos

Abstract

The incidence of stunting is a major nutritional problem faced by Indonesia. The most decisive intervention to reduce the prevalence of stunting includes the provision of complementary foods to infants. Empowerment of mothers during the complementary feeding period can give positive results on the nutritional status of children. The purpose of the study was to identify the effect of MPASI education videos based on local wisdom on maternal practices and nutritional status of infants 6-24 months. The research design was a quasi-experimental with a two group pre-post test design, sample of 40 mothers of infants 6-24 months which taken by consecutive sampling. The results showed that there were differences in mother's practice before and after the complementary feeding education video (p value < 0.001; = 0.05), while there was no difference in nutritional status before and after the video was given. This study recommends providing MPASI educational media for mothers during the exclusive breastfeeding period as a preventive measure for early complementary feeding and increasing maternal readiness before the complementary feeding period.