Research Article

Anemia in Children with Congenital Heart Disease: A Finding from Low-Resource Setting Hospitals

Table 3

Nutritional status, dietary, and health history of children with congenital heart disease in selected governmental hospitals and cardiac center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2021).

VariablesACHDCCHD
Freq. (298)Perc. (%)Freq. (75)Perc. (%)

Having information about nutrition
 Yes16655.74965.3
 No13244.32634.7
Is the child under 60 months
 Yes10434.92837.3
 No19465.14763.7
When start breastfeeding
 With one hour6461.51967.9
 After one hour4038.5932.1
Does your children get colostrum
 Yes77742485.7
 No2726414.3
Do you still breastfeed
 Yes77742175
 No2726725
Frequency of breastfeeding per day
 <8 times6784.129.5
 8 and above times1014.91990.5
Do you start bottle-feeding
 Yes7169.21760.7
 No3331.81139.3
Have you started complementary feeding
 Yes7370.22382.1
 No3129.8517.9
At what age have you started complementary feeding
 <6 month6183.62191.3
 6 month and above1216.428.7
Does the child has feeding difficulty
 Yes14451.73543.3
 No15448.34046.7
Dietary history for age above 50 months
 Good18468.94564.3
 Poor8331.12535.7
Nutritional status
 Well nourished10635.65066.7
 Malnutrition19264.42533.3
Does your child got sick in the past two weeks
 Yes11162.81923.3
 No18737.25676.7