PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION AND PREVENTIVE PRACTICES AMONG MOTHERS WITH CHILDREN BELOW FIVE (5) YEARS IN AKUNGBA-AKOKO, ONDO STATE
Abstract
The study investigated protein-energy malnutrition and preventive practice among mothers with children below five (5) years in Akungba-Akoko, Ondo state.
The study employed descriptive survey research design while population comprised all the mothers with children below five (5) years in Akoko south west from which 200 respondents were selected through multi-stage sampling procedure. Three research questions guided the study and three hypotheses were tested. Validated self-constructed questionnaire approved by the researcher’s supervisor with reliability co-efficient of 0.7 was used for data collection. With the help of a trained research assistant, the researcher went to each selected street to administer the instrument. Retrieved questionnaire were screened and coded into frequency tables, while simple percentage of mean was used to test the research questions while, inferential statistics was used to test all the hypotheses at alpha level 0.05.
Based on the analysis, the findings revealed that; there is above average knowledge (/x=2.69 and preventive practice (/x=2.89) of protein-energy malnutrition among mothers of 0-5years children in Akungba-Akoko. Also, Age (F = 7.827, p
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