<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.2d1 20170631//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"> <ArticleSet> <Article> <Journal> <PublisherName>journal-jmsr</PublisherName> <JournalTitle>Journal of Medical and Surgical Research</JournalTitle> <PISSN>I</PISSN> <EISSN>S</EISSN> <Volume-Issue>Vol. III, n 3 </Volume-Issue> <PartNumber/> <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic> <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage> <Season>February, 2017</Season> <SpecialIssue>N</SpecialIssue> <SupplementaryIssue>N</SupplementaryIssue> <IssueOA>Y</IssueOA> <PubDate> <Year>-0001</Year> <Month>11</Month> <Day>30</Day> </PubDate> <ArticleType>JMSR Pediatrics</ArticleType> <ArticleTitle>Evaluation of the Infant and Young Child Feeding Index Among Moroccan Children</ArticleTitle> <SubTitle/> <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage> <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA> <FirstPage>297</FirstPage> <LastPage>312</LastPage> <AuthorList> <Author> <FirstName>Mouna</FirstName> <LastName>Habibi</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> <FirstName>Fatima Zahra</FirstName> <LastName>Laamiri</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> <FirstName>Hassan</FirstName> <LastName>Aguenaou</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> <FirstName>Loubna</FirstName> <LastName>Doukkali</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> <FirstName>Mustapha</FirstName> <LastName>Mrabet</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> <FirstName>Amina</FirstName> <LastName>Barkat</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> </Author> </AuthorList> <DOI/> <Abstract>Background. Several investigations worldwide have scrutinized the ability of the infant and young child feeding index (ICFI) in evaluating the child-feeding practices and their correlation with children__ampersandsign#39;s nutritional status. Methods. Grounded in the feeding index concept, as laid out by Ruel and Menon in 2002, a cross-sectional ICFI was set-up and the variables were rated in 297 aged 6-24-mo-old Moroccan children from Casablanca. The relation between ICFI and weight-for-age Z-scores (WAZ), length-for-age Z-scores (LAZ) and weight-for-length Z-scores (WLZ) was assessed with use of anthropometric data. The data obtained were analyzed using a nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis H test, post hoc Mann-Whitney U-test, and Bonferroni correction. Results. In our survey, a significant interaction was observed between LAZ and the total ICFI (p less than 0.001) in virtually all age groups. Whereas, a link has been objectified between WLZ and ICFI only for children aged 6-8 months (p less than 0.001), and further, WAZ and ICFI considering the 9- to 11-mo-old as well as the 12- to 24-mo-old age groups. Conclusions. These findings are in line with previous observations by Ruel and Menon and numerous surveys documented in evidence-based literature that supported the positive contribution of child feeding practices on child growth by using ICFI.</Abstract> <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage> <Keywords/> <URLs> <Abstract>https://journal-jmsr.net/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=4795&title=Evaluation of the Infant and Young Child Feeding Index Among Moroccan Children</Abstract> </URLs> <References> <ReferencesarticleTitle>References</ReferencesarticleTitle> <ReferencesfirstPage>16</ReferencesfirstPage> <ReferenceslastPage>19</ReferenceslastPage> <References/> </References> </Journal> </Article> </ArticleSet>