n order to understand some of factors involved in growth falering during weaning age

a corss sectional positive deviance study was conducted among 139 urban 0-12 month old infants in Jiang BeiDistrict

Chongqing During the interviews

ten trained and standardizted interviewers asked themothers or other caregivers aboiit their chldcare and feeding knolwedge and practices

and whileweights and lengths of the samplpe intants were measured were measured aceording to standard procedures.Nutri-tional status was represented by each infant’Z-scores posillve deviance score that was calculatedfrom the position of each infant’s weight-for age zscore(WAZ) in the distribution of all WAZ scoresfor each age month

the prositive deviants were identified as bcing above the 66th precentile in eachagemonth suhsample. The positive deviant infaiits as a group were compared to the infants in the othertwo groups in the lower two-thrds of the distribution.The restilts will serve as a useful reference todesigning a suitable nutrition education program.