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Objective: Healthy nutrition of the child, especially the sick child, is one of the mothers’ priorities. The mother's eating behavior affects the child's eating behavior and the child's preference to eat. Our study aims to investigate the tendency of the mothers of children with chronic or acute illness to consume healthy food. Method and method: The study was carried out with the mothers of children who lie in the 3rd stage child hospital due to chronic or acute illness. The parents of the patients who were involved in the study completed the ORTO-11 scale. The ORTO-11 scale measures the tendency to a healthy eating impairment (ortorectal eating behavior). The low scale score of ORTO-11 indicates a tendency to consume healthy foods. Results: There is no significant difference between the Mothers of Children with Chronic Disease and the Mothers of Children with Acute Disease with ORTO-11 points (p>0.05). The ORTO-11 score of those who perceived that the child with chronic illness had a good income from his mothers was statistically lower than those who perceived that he had a bad income (p<0.05). The ORTO-11 points of all mothers who have good income, who have a good perception of their income or who work have been statistically significantly lower than those who do not work, who have poor income or who have a bad perception of their income (p<0.05). There has been no meaningful relationship between the child’s dietary characteristics, the duration of the disease, the age, the body weight percentage and the size percentage and the mother’s ORTO-11 points (p>0.05). Results: As a result, the tendency to healthy eating in the mothers of children in the hospital due to a chronic or acute disease has been similar. It has been determined that their mothers tend to consume healthy food rather than their children’s disease affect their intake power. For the first time, this study assessed the tendency of healthy eating in the mothers of the sick children.

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