Factors Contributed in Providing Complementary Foods and Changes in Toddler Growth Charts
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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to analyze the factors that contributed in providing complementary foods with the growth chart of under-five children.
Methods: Correlational analytic study with a cross-sectional approach on 366 under-fives aged 6-24 months who were recruited using simple random sampling. The variables consisted of the demographic factors and father's role in providing complementary feeding and the growth chart of the card to health, both variables were measured using demographic questionnaire and The Paternal Engagement, Paternal Accessibility and Paternal Responsibility scale with a good validity and reability and analyzed using the binary logistic regression.
Results: The majority shows positive father involvement (72%), normal weight progression (76.5%), and predominantly normal height (88%), with only 11% categorized as short. The multivariate analysis show that father's education, father's job, mother's age, mother's education, mother's job and father's role have a significant relationship with the growth chart. Father's role is the most dominant variable because its OR is the highest (p = 0.001; OR = 2.128; CI = 1.263-3.433), which means that a supportive or better father's role will make the provision of complementary food better and improve the child's growth chart.
Conclusions: Fathers play an important role in supporting the growth of under-fives through complementary feeding. This study is expected to be applied with a wider range of areas in order to obtain comparisons with research that has been done.
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