Effect of play-based family-centered psychomotor/psychosocial stimulation on the recovery severly malnourished children of 6-60 months of age during nutritional rehabilitation in the Jimma zone of Ethiopië. (R-8136)

Due to malnutrition 47% of under-five children in Ethiopia are stunded (chronic malnutrition); 11% wasted (acute malnutrition) and 38% underweight (mixed acute/chronic malnutrition). Children surviving malnutrition are at developmental risk and need early intervention to minimize or reverse the deleterious effects. The main objective of the present study is to examine the effect of a play-based falily-centered psychomotor/psychosocial stimulation on the recovery of severely acutely malnourished children 6 mo.-6 yr. of age in Jimma Zone, south west Ethiopia.

Keywords:nutritional rehabilitation

Disciplines:Morphological sciences