واقع الوعي الغذائي لدى أمهات مرحلة الطفولة المبكرة و علاقته ببعض المتغيرات بمدينة جدة

الملخص EN

The lack of nutritional awareness of early childhood mothers is a factor affecting the child's nutritional status, child health is closely related to the nature of the child's intake of food in quantity and quality.

the aim of this study was to identify the reality of nutritional awareness among mothers of early childhood in Jeddah.

it also aimed to identify the differences in the average of the nutritional awareness in the study sample according to the variables (age-educational level-nutritional counselling programs) and clarifying the main constraints affecting the counselling programs which concerned with nutritional awareness.

the study sample consisted of 100 mothers, and the mixed approach was studied by qualitative and quantitative quality.

the quantitative data were collected by means of the scale, and qualitative data by (interview), and the scale was standardized on a previous scale.

the nutritional awareness scale consists of thirty-one paragraphs, divided into four dimensions.

the data were analyzed statistically.

the qualitative data were analyzed in pre-arranged methodological terms.

the study found several results, the most prominent of which are : high degree of nutritional awareness among mothers of children in early childhood in Jeddah.

there were no statistically significant differences between the average levels of nutritional awareness in the study sample according to the variables (age-educational level), and there is a correlation between the degree of nutritional awareness and the impact of nutritional counselling programs in the study sample.

and the most prominent obstacles to the nutritional counselling programs is the lack of dissemination of the announcement of such programs.

the researcher concluded with several recommendations, including : the importance of development and continuous effective training, to maintain the level of awareness of food through increasing the number of nutritional counselling programs provided to mothers in Jeddah, and to focus on the use of diverse educational methods when nutritional counselling programs are provided, also to promote nutritional counselling programs through media institutions and social networking sites, and to take advantage of the global experience in extension, which serves the development of nutritional counselling programs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.