Với mục đích tìm hiểu một cách tương đối đầy đủ về các tập quán nuôi con của các bà mẹ thuộc một số dân tộc cư trú lâu đời ở Tây Nguyên, bằng kỹ thuật nghiên cứu ngang mô tả, chọn mẫu theo phương pháp ngẫu nhiên nhiều giai đoạn, chúng tôi đã khảo sát tập quán của 1.1170 bà mẹ người dân tộc Ê Đê (Đắk Lắk), Gia Rai (Gia Lai), Ba nar (Gia Lai), Xơ...

English summary: The study aimed to explore child nutrition practices of ethnic mothers living forlone time in Tay Nguyen area. The study design was cross-descriptive survey with multi-stag random sampling. There were 1,170 mothers from ethnic groups such as Ede  (Daklak), Gia Rai (Gia Lai), Banar (Gia  Lai), Xo Dang Kon Turn), M’Nong (Dak Nong) and Co Hor (Lam Dong) interviewed. Results showed  that 58.3% mothers still delivered at   home, mainly assisted by traditional birth attendants (43.7%). 40.3% mothers had maternal leave less than 1 month. Only 3.8% mothers breastfed their babies within  30 minutes after delivery. The reason fro this delayed practice was “waiting for the coming of breast milk”. There were 73.8% of the mothers, who would  breastfeed their babies until the babies wean themselves. The reason for weaning was that the children quit it themselves 34.1% of the children were gwen complementary feeding before 3 months old and 65.9% from the 4th month. The starting weaning food was often rice soup (34.8%) or flour paste (26.6%). 22.9% of the children were given rice at the very first weaning meal, of which 15.5% were given whole seed rice. There were 62.7% mothers not having the practice of adding fat/oil in weaning foods. The reason they did not practice was that they did not know the importance of fat/oil. There were 33.5% mothers still practisrng rice chewing before feeding to the their children,and 45% having the practice of food abstainance when their children got  diarrhea. The foods that should  be avoided included oil, fat, fish, shrimp...