الفهرس 
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Abstract
Failure to thrive describes an infant or child who does not gain weight at the expected rate. The aim of the present study was to assess mothers, knowledge, and practices regarding care of their infants suffering from failure to thrive. Research design: A descriptive research design was used. subjects: One hundred fifty mothers and their infants from pediatric outpatient endocrinology clinic of Tanta University Hospital and outpatient follow up clinic of Urban medical center of Sidi Salem, Kafr El Sheikh were selected. Three Tools were used: Structured interview schedule to obtain socio-demographic characteristics of mothers and infants, observational checklist to assess mothers, practice, and nutritional assessment sheet to assess infant, growth. The results revealed that, there were equil percentage was found among males and females. Most of mothers who had low and moderate level of knowledge had unsatisfactory practice. No statistically significant difference between mothers, knowledge, and practice. Conclusion: there were statistically significant difference between total mothers, knowledge and practice scores about failure to thrive and feeding pattern, there were significant relation between mothers, knowledge and their demographic data. Recommendations: the current study recommended that, in service educational program about failure to thrive and feeding patterns should be conducted at endocrine clinic to mothers of infant with failure to thrive to improve thier practice. Key words: Failure to thrive, Infant,Knowledge,Mothers, Practice.