The development of a nutrition education programme for parental feeding styles and practices
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Date
2020
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University of Western Cape
Abstract
Many low- and middle-income countries are faced with a rise in the double burden of malnutrition
- undernutrition and overweight/obesity. Nutrition-related factors contribute to approximately 45%
of deaths in children under five years (mainly due to undernutrition) globally, while low- and
middle-income countries are simultaneously witnessing a rise in childhood overweight and
obesity. In 2016, an estimated 41 million children under the age of five in low- and middle-income
countries were overweight or obese, while 155 million were chronically undernourished. In Africa
alone, the estimated prevalence of overweight and obese children in 2010 was 8.5%, expected to
reach 12.7% in 2020. In comparison, globally, one in nine people are either hungry or
undernourished, while one in three people are overweight.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
Keywords
Nutritional knowledge, Parenting styles, Parenting feeding practice, Social learning theory, Intervention mapping