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Uptake of minimum acceptable diet among children aged 6-23 months in orthodox religion followers during fasting season in rural area, DEMBECHA, north West Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: Background:Under-nutrition is the cause for poor physical and mental development and has more burden among infants and young children aged between 6 and 23?months. Cultural practices like not providing animal source foods for infants and young child aged between 6 and 23?months were barrier for practicing proper children feeding. The aim of this study was to assess minimum acceptable diet and associated factors among children aged between 6 and 23?months in Orthodox religion during fasting season in rural area, Dembecha, Ethiopia. Methods:A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted to assess Minimum Acceptable diet.Random sampling technique was applied to select 506 study participants. Interview was used to collect data on Practice of minimum acceptable diet, minimum dietary diversity, minimum meal frequency and related factors among children aged between 6 and 23?months from mothers / caregivers. Result:About 8.6% of infants and young children aged between 6 and 23?months received minimum acceptable diet. Education status of mother(AOR?=?0.22,95%CI:0.1, 0.48), involvement of mother in decision making (AOR?=?0.22,95%CI:0.10,0.48), birth order of index children (AOR?=?0.36,95%CI:0.14,0. 94), knowledge on feeding frequency (AOR?=?0.3,95% CI:0.16,0.58), and institutional delivery (AOR?=?5.13, 95%CI: 1.26, 20.80) were significantly associated with minimum acceptable diet. Conclusion:Minimum acceptable diet practice was low. Educational status of mother, involvement of mother in decision making, knowledge on feeding frequency and institutional delivery were significantly associated with minimum acceptable diet. This indicates that nutrition education and counseling related to infant and young child feeding practice is not addressed for all mothers. Strengthening mothers' education on acceptable child feed practice, and working with religion leaders to increase knowledge of mothers on child feed practice are recommended.

SUBMITTER: Mulat E

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7050747 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Uptake of minimum acceptable diet among children aged 6-23 months in orthodox religion followers during fasting season in rural area, DEMBECHA, north West Ethiopia.

Mulat Efram E Alem Girma G Woyraw Wubetu W Temesgen Habtamu H

BMC nutrition 20190227

<h4>Background</h4>Under-nutrition is the cause for poor physical and mental development and has more burden among infants and young children aged between 6 and 23 months. Cultural practices like not providing animal source foods for infants and young child aged between 6 and 23 months were barrier for practicing proper children feeding. The aim of this study was to assess minimum acceptable diet and associated factors among children aged between 6 and 23 months in Orthodox religion during fasti ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundThough infant and young children should be fed according to a minimum acceptable diet to ensure appropriate growth and development, only 7% of Ethiopian 6-23 months age children meet the minimum acceptable dietary standards, which is lower than the national target of 11% set for 2016. Therefore, this study aims to assess the individual and community level factors affecting feeding according to minimum acceptable diet among 6-23 months age children in Ethiopia.MethodsThis study analyzed retrospectively a cross-sectional data on a weighted sample of 2919 children aged 6-23 months nested within 617 clusters after extracting from Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey 2016 via the link www.measuredhs.com. By employing bi-variate multilevel logistic regression model, variables which were significant at the p-value < 0.25 were included in multivariable multilevel logistic regression analysis. Finally, variables with a p-value < 0.05 were considered as significant predictors of minimum acceptable diet.ResultsOnly 6.1% of 6-23 months age children feed minimum acceptable diet in Ethiopia. Children 18-23 months age (AOR = 3.7, 95%CI 1.9, 7.2), father's with secondary or higher education (AOR = 2.1, 95%CI 1.2, 3.6), Employed mothers (AOR = 1.7, 95%CI 1.2, 2.5), mothers have access to drinking water (AOR = 1.9, 95%CI 1.2, 2.9), mothers with media exposure (AOR = 2.1 95%CI 1.1, 2.7) were positive individual level predictors. Urban mothers (AOR = 4.8, 95%CI 1.7, 13.2)) and agrarian dominant region (AOR = 5.6, 95%CI 2.2, 14.5) were community level factors that significantly associated with a minimum acceptable diet of 6-23 months age children.ConclusionBoth individual and community level factors were significantly associated with a minimum acceptable diet of 6-23 months age children in Ethiopia, suggesting that nutritional interventions designed to improve child health should not only be implemented at the individual level but tailored to community context as well.

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Uptake of minimum acceptable diet among children aged 6-23 months in orthodox religion followers during fasting season in rural area, DEMBECHA, north West Ethiopia.

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Uptake of minimum acceptable diet among children aged 6-23 months in orthodox religion followers during fasting season in rural area, DEMBECHA, north West Ethiopia.

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