ارزيابي وضعيت برنامه تجويز قطره آهن كمكي در كودكان 24 - 6 ماهه در شهر ياسوج: 1385

Assessment of Iron supplementation program in 6-24 months old children of Yasuj; 2006

Introduction: Iron drops administration has been used for preventing Iron deficiency anemia tor children. The present study was carried tml to assessment using iron drops in 6-34 months age children in Yasuj county Methods: In a descriptive study by a stratified random sampling method, 300 mtidlerspr6-24 months old children were selected. A validated questionnaire, (Krunbach Alpha= 0.75 ), which its reliability was confirmed by nutritionist, was used to data collecting. Findings are reported using SPSS version 13, in analysis of variances, chi square test, and descriptive statistics. Results: More than a half (57.6%) of children were coasumed iron drops regularly, hnt 34.9% iriTgular; and 7.5% did not consume it at all. In 38.6% of cases mothers h:id good knowledge, 47.3% had moderately good knowledge, butthe remainder had poor knowledge on using and complications of iron drop in children. The practices of mothers in feeding iron drops to their children were satisfying in 58.3%, moderately satisfying in 35.3% and unsatisfying in 5,9% of cases. There was no sign iticant relationship between age, literacy, job and mothers attitude with iron drops consumption, although the knowledge of mothers were significantly effective in iron consumption ( P-:0.05). Conclusion: Irregular consumption anrf even not consuming iron Limps in children anil -ilso poor attitudes of mothers on iron drops, beside the low tendency of children to ingest iron drop are alarming problems with iron drops tt^jyc fur preventing iron deficiency anemia in children.