Nutrition behaviours of rural and urban mothers on 0-24 month children

The research was conducted to compare urban and rural mothers child nutrition habits and determine precaution methods against malpractices if exists. Study was undertaken with a total of 103 mothers who have children aged 0-24 months living in Ad yaman town center, Kahta Town and alt l village. A questionnaire, interview, comprising 24 questions, was prepared by examining national and international studies. The interview was applied by face-to-face questioning. Result obtained was evaluated by SPSS 17.0 software. The data interpretation was undertaken by using distribution percentages of data (%), chi-square test and multi-response test.In the study, which the rural and urban mothers’ child nutrition treatment was compared, majority of the mothers at three settlement site started breastfeeding of their babies following first hour of delivery. However, although breastfeeding should continue in first 4 months mothers stop feeding in this period. Most of the mother’s at urban areas started additional foods in 6th month, and the ones at towns and rural areas started between 1st and 3rd months. The major problems faced with the start of additional food in city were constipation, diarrhea in town and gas pain in urban. When babies who are familiar with additional foods, did not intake additional foods, urban mothers commonly used force for feeding, town mothers played games and urban mothers stopped feeding instead of without any effort