Conclusion
NUTRITIONAL PROBLEMS, MALNUTRITION IN CHILDREN
The nutritional status of preschoolers was found to be significantly improved by home-based intervention. Since home-based diet therapy includes the caregiver’s involvement in preparing a nutritious diet, it leads to a healthy diet practice in the family thereby reducing malnutrition in children. Policymakers must be informed about the current nutritional condition of under-five children and be reminded that a home-based diet is a more affordable therapeutic option that lowers childhood morbidity and mortality. The country needs multidimensional strategies to lessen the nutritional problems, given the geographic, cultural, and financial situation that exist across the country; protein and energy-dense therapeutic home-based diet management are probable to be one of them. The present study findings can be utilized at a larger scale across the country and also among the resource limited settings.