Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Health Care Workers on under five nutritional assessment in Njombe Town Council, Njombe Region Tanzania.

Nziku, Rogatho Herbert (2022) Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Health Care Workers on under five nutritional assessment in Njombe Town Council, Njombe Region Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

Nutrition is an important aspect in the etiology, management and recovery of several diseases. Health Care Workers has inadequate knowledge, attitude and practice towards Nutrition assessment, which could results in low identification of under-five who are malnourished. This study was conducted to assess the factors association knowledge, attitude and practice among health care providers on under five nutrition assessment in Njombe town council. Specifically, to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of health care workers on assessing Nutrition status of under five Children in Njombe Town Council. The researcher employed descriptive statistical approaches, which involves mix of quantitative and qualitative approach. The descriptive statistical approaches were used, data collected from 49 Reproductive and Child health facility in Njombe town council which gives the total sample size of 88 Health care workers and analyzed using SPSS Version 23 and Microsoft excel. The finding of this study indicates that the majority of health care workers had moderate knowledge on nutrition assessment also health care workers had positives attitude on different parameters contributing on improving nutrition assessment and the facilities are conducting nutrition assessment either facility based, outreach or mobile and time was sufficient. Key words: Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Nutrition Assessment, Njombe

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