The seasonal relationships between household dietary diversity and child growth in a rural Timor-Leste community.

ABSTRACT: Both child growth and dietary diversity are poor in rural Timor-Leste. The rainy season is associated with food scarcity, yet the association between seasonal scarcity, food diversity, and child growth is underdocumented. This study assesses the relationship between household dietary diversity and children's standardized growth across the 2018 food-scarce (April-May; post-rainy period) and post-harvest (October) seasons in the agricultural community of Natarbora, on the south-coastal plains of Timor-Leste. We conducted household interviews and collected anthropometric data across 98 and 93 households in the post-rainy and post-harvest periods, respectively. Consumed household foods were obtained via 24-h diet recalls and were subsequently categorized into a nine-food-group dietary diversit

SUBMITTER: Guizzo Dri G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9218308 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature