Analysis Of Influential Factors Of Infant Acceptance Of New Complementary Food

Objective To investigate the process to accept the new complementary food, infants to analyze the influential factors.Methods 46 infants were enrolled in the study. Early infant temperament questionnaire were answered by the mothers. 10 times were given for the infants to touch new food(carrot mud),and every score were recorded. The distinctions of the food acceptance analyzed by the chi-square statistics. The relations between feeding patterns, sex, maternal parity, education degree and favorite of carrot were analyzed by ANOVA. The relations between infants'temperament and acceptance were analyzed by the multivariate correlations..Results 46 infants were finished all of tests. It was in the 5,8,9,10 time that infants accepted more the carrot mud. The breastfed infants were easier to accept carrot than formula-fed infants. The male infants were more dificult to accept carrot than female infants. The characters of temperament and 9 dimension were evaluated. 26 were easy type , 1 difficult,4 sow up to warm,5 itermediate low and 10 intermediate high. Used by multivariate correlation analysis respectively. There were no relationship between the capability of acceptance and the character of temperament.Conclusions Infants need at least 5 times to accept the new food. Breastfed infants were easier to accept the new complementary food than formula-fed infants. The capability of acceptance new food is not affected by the temperament of the infant.