ArticleCureus2023
Complementary Feeding in Western Cape, South Africa: Identifying Suboptimal Practices and Potential Targets for Intervention.
Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Factors influencing early introduction of complementary feeding in children under 2 years in Limpopo province.Curationis · 2025Article
- Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Determinants of Appropriate Complementary Feeding Practices Among Women With Children Aged 6-23 Months in Sub-Saharan Africa.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 4 institutions in 6 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction Appropriate complementary feeding is important for the normal growth and development of children. This study aimed to describe the complementary feeding practices and identify suboptimal practices that would be possible targets for intervention to improve practices among mothers of infants aged six weeks to one year in Western Cape Province, South Africa. Methods This hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted at the emergency unit of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health of Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, between May 2017 and June 2017 among 110 mothers and their infants. Infants with minor ailments were included in the study. Patients requiring hospital admissions or severely ill infants requiring oxygen or ventilation, premature babies, and children with congenital anomalies were excluded from the study. The relationship between sociodemographic variables and the time of commencement of complementary food was described. Results The mean age of infants was 6.4±3.2 months, while the mean age of mothers was 27.6±5.5 years. On average, the age at introduction of complementary food to infants was 2.17±1.50 months. Among the complementary foods given to infants less than six months of age, cereals were the most commonly introduced (76.5%), while the least were sweet beverages (5.9%). Maternal age ≤ 34 years and first-born infant were significantly associated with early commencement of complementary food before six months of age (p=0.042 and p=0.032, respectively). Conclusion This study indicated that commencement of complementary food as early as two months of age with the use of non-nutritious and inappropriate food remains a significant problem in the region. There is a need for further education of mothers on appropriate complementary feeding practices given the importance of complementary feeding practices to the optimum growth and development of children.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.