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If nutrition is not sufficient and balanced in childhood, it prepares the ground for significant health problems and chronic diseases in the future. It is the responsibility of the pediatric nurse to identify nutritional problems that may be caused by the attitudes and behaviors of the parents in the early stages and to make the necessary interventions. In this study, it was intended to determine the maternal attitudes of children in the feeding process. Methods: This research was conducted between July 2019 and September 2019 as an identifier with mothers with children between 9 months and 72 months who applied to Saltuklu ASM, ibn Sina ASM and Dadashkent ASM in Aziziye district of Erzurum province. As a method of sampling selection; data were collected by random sampling methods, which are one of the stratified and improbable sampling methods. In this study, parent and child identifiable information form prepared in line with the literature as a data collection tool and the Nutrition Process Maternal Attitudes Scale were used. Ethical principles were observed in the study. Results: The mothers who participated in the study were 30.64±5.43 years old, 57% had normal BKI, 33.5% gave their baby food before starting additional food, an average of 5.71±1.08 months started supplementary food, and only 24% received nutritional training. determined. When the attitudes of mothers towards nutrition are examined; trying to feed more fruits and vegetables to his child and trying to increase his fiber intake. It was found that mothers received an above-average score of 72.65±28.60 from the Maternal Attitudes Scale. On the attitudes of mothers' feeding process; the presence of people other than the mother who feeds the child, the support of the baby, the place where the food is fed, the nutritional education, the age of the mother and father, the changes in the birth weight of the baby were found to be effective. (p<0.05). Conclusion: As a result of the study, the average nutritional attitude score of mothers was not at the desired level, the need to develop emerged and it was determined that many variables were effective on nutritional attitude. It is recommended to plan studies that increase the knowledge and awareness of mothers for infancy and childhood nutrition and take into account the factors that are effective on nutritional attitude.

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