WEIGHT CHANGES OF NEWBORNS DURING FIRST FORTNIGHT
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09-09-99
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE
Abstract
A longltoinal study nu taken op to know the changes
In weight on each day from birth to fifteen days. The total
eajqple ooeprlsed of seventy five noxaal aid healthy neonatee
drawn from eeyen xandoely selected matexnity hospitals, out
of a total of nine hospitals in Shaxvad torn. Infants with
illness doxing the pexiod of study wexe deleted.
Ittde weight is graas was xecoxded within 12 houxs fxoa
hixth by using Tansy bax weighing balance. The wight
changes in texsa of pexiod of initial weight loss, pex cent
of weight loss and tiae taken to xegain bixtbweight wexe
eonsidexed and quantified. InfOxnation xegaxdlsg age of
aothex, type of delioexy, paxity, gestation pexiod, sex of
newboxn, initiation of bxeast feeding, qnwtity of pxelaoteal
feeds given wexe colleeted by intexTiewing aothex using
pxedeveloped, pxetested intexview schedule.
To know the association and ooxxelation of seleoted
faetoxs with the thxee ooaponents of weight changes,
ExuahkaUWallis one way analysis of varianoe by xanks and
Speaxaan Bank Ooxxelation Ooeffioient was used. The study
xevealed that the aeai) nuabex of days of initial weight