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Objective: To assess the effect of a designed nutrition education program (NEP) on maternal Knowledge and practices Methods: A control two groups quasi-experimental pre- and post-experimental were adopted. Data were collected through personal interviews of two groups using a validated questionnaire. The nutrition education program was conducted in three phases. Phase one was the pre-evaluation; phase two was the program's implementation, and phase three entailed post-evaluation of the program. Results: The results supported the efficient role of the NEP intervention in raising mothers ' Knowledge and practices towards nutritional care of children under two years in Sennar Locality. No statistically significant differences were found between the two groups with the controlled variable, mother age, mother education, mother occupation, husband occupation, No of children less than five years, family size, and infant age. This indicates that the two groups were homogenous. No significant difference between the two groups in mothers' Knowledge and practices before applying the NEP. The results showed the effectiveness of the NEP in developing experimental group mother's Knowledge and practices, comparing post-test with pre-test in favor of post-test to be statistically significant. NEP has a greater effect in developing mother's awareness post-test measuring and developing mother's Knowledge and practices comparing post-test with pre-test. Conclusions and Implications: It can be concluded that nutrition education intervention demonstrated its effectiveness in maternal Knowledge and practices. The study provided valuable baseline information to develop appropriate training courses and nutrition education programs to raise maternal Knowledge and practices towards infants and young children's nutrition.

Objective: To assess the effect of a designed nutrition education program (NEP) on maternal attitudes. Methods: A control two groups quasi-experimental pre- and post-experimental were adopted. Data were collected through personal interviews of two groups using a validated questionnaire. The nutrition education program was conducted in three phases. Phase one was the pre-evaluation, phase two was the program’s implementation, and phase three entailed post evaluation of the program. Results: The results supported the efficient role of the NEP intervention in raising mothers’ attitudes towards nutritional care of under two years in Sennar Locality, Sudan. There was no significant difference between the two groups with respect to the controlled variables; mother age, mother education, mother occupation, husband occupation, number of children less than 5 years, family size, and child’s age, which indicates that the two groups were homogenous, i.e., no significant difference between mothers’ attitude of the two groups before applying the NEP. The results showed the effectiveness of the NEP in developing experimental group mother’s attitudes, comparing post-test with pre-test in favor of post-test to be statistically significant. NEP has a huge impact in developing the mother’s awareness post-test, measuring and developing the mother’s attitudes compared to post-test with pre-test. Conclusions and Implications: The nutrition education intervention demonstrated its effectiveness in maternal attitude. The study provided valuable baseline information to develop appropriate training courses and nutrition education programs to raise maternal awareness and attitudes towards infants and young children’s nutrition.

This was a longitudinal study to investigate the growth monitoring of Low Birth Weight (LBW) infants, (weight, length and head circumference) from birth to 6 months of age. 84 LBW infants delivered at Omdurman Maternity were included in the study, normal birth weight or preterm infants were excluded. Data was collected by questionnaire included background of the families and Infant's health and feeding. Mothers were interviewed first in the wards 3-4 h after delivery, then during home visits after 2 w and monthly follow up monitoring were used up to 6 mo. Infant's birth weight was taken immediately after birth and classified as LBW (1500