Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories
Autor: | W.O. Kosura, Penina Muoki, Simon Heck, Janet Mwende Mutiso, Carl Johan Lagerkvist, Julius J. Okello |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Nutrition Education Biofortification Mothers Medicine (miscellaneous) Sample (statistics) Child Nutrition Sciences Affect (psychology) Behavioral Medicine Feeding Methods 03 medical and health sciences symbols.namesake 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy Environmental health Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Poisson regression Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Maternal Behavior 030109 nutrition & dietetics Ecology Young child Infant Newborn Psychosocial Support Systems Theory of planned behavior Infant General Medicine Nutrition Surveys Kenya Breast Feeding Cross-Sectional Studies symbols Female Diet Healthy Psychology Psychosocial Food Science |
Zdroj: | Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 57:346-371 |
ISSN: | 1543-5237 0367-0244 |
Popis: | Despite the efforts to promote good practices in infant and young child feeding (IYCF), the adoption of such practices has been low. Using data from a sample of 665 women, and the theory of planned behavior, we examine the effect of different types of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on the use of recommended IYCF practices. Regression results show that nutrition education and psychosocial factors have strong positive effect on the extent to which IYCF practices are used, with the latter having conflicting individual but overall positive effect. Moreover, coefficients of latter were mostly less than those of the former indicating that pschosocial factors were less important in explaining variability in usage of IYCF than the nutrition education variables. It further finds that different sets of nutrition education and psychosocial factors affect different categories of women, with interactive nutrition education approaches having a greater effect. The findings also suggest need for targeting of beneficiaries with multiple nutrition education approaches. |
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