Title: Nutrition Education Programs Aimed at African Mothers of Infant Children: A Systematic Review

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Jardí, C., Casanova, To make a systematic malnutrition; A bibliographic Although the studies
B. D., & Arija, V. review to assess the stunting; wasting search was carried on nutrition education
(2021). Nutrition effect of intervention underweight; out in the PubMed to combat child
education programs programs in nutrition nutrition programs; database for clinical malnutrition in Africa
aimed at african
education for African systematic review trials between found common
mothers of infant
children: A systematic mothers on the November 2012 and ground, joint
review. International nutritional status of 2021. The studies evaluation of the
Journal of their infants. should contain results of the different
Environmental educational programs programs is difficult
Research and Public to evaluate the impact given their
Health, 18(14), 7709. on the infant’s methodological
nutritional indicators diversity and outcome
in children under 5 variables. However, it
years (food should be noted that
consumption, although the
anthropometry and/or interventions on
knowledge of nutrition education
nutrition in carried out on
caretakers). Results: mothers and
A total of 20 articles caregivers were
were selected, of useful for improving
which 53% evaluated dietary diversity and
infant’s food attitudes toward
consumption, 82% recommended
anthropometric feeding, they appear
measurements and to be insufficient to
30% nutritional generate nutritional
knowledge. In changes in children.
general, nutritional For this reason, the
education programs programs should be
are accredited with accompanied by
some significant actions of national
improvements in food agriculture or
and nutrient nutritional
consumption, supplementation.
knowledge and Only then will people
dietary practices in be able to adhere to
complementary the recommendations
feeding, but only and guidelines of a
those studies that healthy diet to stop
implemented the processes of child
strategies in malnutrition since
agriculture, food shortages are a
educational latent problem in
workshops and Africa. Despite the
supplementation observed benefits,
obtained reductions in more studies are
chronic malnutrition required to provide
figures. Limitations: more evidence on the
There is high characteristics of the
heterogeneity in the most effective
articles included, interventions.
since the intervention
programs have
different approaches.