Table 3.
Information and adequate feeding practices (6–8 months)
| Complementary feeding (yes) | Two or more times daily | Three or more food groups | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | ||||
| OR | 95 % CI | OR | 95 % CI | OR | 95 % CI | |
| Mother's exposure to health-care professionals | ||||||
| Had antenatal check up | ||||||
| No | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Yes | 2·00 | 0·54, 7·42 | 0·05* | 0·01, 0·44 | 0·43 | 0·05, 3·71 |
| Advised on nutrition (antenatal) | ||||||
| No | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Yes | 1·48* | 1·21, 1·82 | 1·29† | 1·06, 1·58 | 1·55† | 1·03, 2·33 |
| Met with health-care worker in last 3 months | ||||||
| No | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Yes | 0·95 | 0·78, 1·15 | 0·88 | 0·73, 1·06 | 0·94 | 0·66, 1·34 |
| Discussed nutrition and health | ||||||
| No | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Yes | 3·76† | 1·27, 11·13 | 1·88 | 0·87, 4·08 | 0·70 | 0·16, 3·08 |
| Exposure to media | ||||||
| Watched television | 1·07 | 0·97, 1·17 | 1·04 | 0·95, 1·14 | 1·08 | 0·91, 1·29 |
| Listened to radio | 1·08‡ | 0·99, 1·17 | 1·12* | 1·03, 1·21 | 1·19† | 1·04, 1·37 |
| Read newspaper or magazine | 1·30* | 1·13, 1·50 | 1·21* | 1·06, 1·37 | 1·18‡ | 0·97, 1·44 |
| Wealth index | ||||||
| Poorest | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Poorer | 0·75‡ | 0·56, 1·00 | 0·77‡ | 0·57, 1·03 | 0·83 | 0·41, 1·65 |
| Middle | 0·88 | 0·65, 1·20 | 0·90 | 0·66, 1·23 | 0·84 | 0·42, 1·68 |
| Richer | 1·14 | 0·81, 1·62 | 1·16 | 0·83, 1·64 | 1·45 | 0·72, 2·94 |
| Richest | 1·28 | 0·83, 1·98 | 1·13 | 0·75, 1·71 | 1·49 | 0·67, 3·31 |
| Mother's education | ||||||
| No education | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Less than primary | 1·21 | 0·83, 1·75 | 1·32 | 0·91, 1·90 | 1·24 | 0·59, 2·60 |
| Primary | 0·99 | 0·68, 1·44 | 1·04 | 0·71, 1·51 | 0·43 | 0·15, 1·27 |
| Middle school | 1·16 | 0·89, 1·53 | 1·34† | 1·03, 1·75 | 1·23 | 0·72, 2·09 |
| High school and above | 1·25 | 0·80, 1·95 | 1·19 | 0·80, 1·78 | 0·99 | 0·49, 2·02 |
| Mother's employment | ||||||
| Currently working | ||||||
| No | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Yes | 0·93 | 0·69, 1·26 | 0·84 | 0·63, 1·14 | 0·77 | 0·42, 1·39 |
| Works away from home | ||||||
| No | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Yes | 1·33‡ | 0·98, 1·81 | 1·24 | 0·91, 1·67 | 1·45 | 0·80, 2·64 |
| Other variables | ||||||
| Gender | ||||||
| Female | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Male | 1·02 | 0·85, 1·23 | 0·96 | 0·81, 1·15 | 1·14 | 0·82, 1·57 |
| Had diarrhoea in last week | ||||||
| No | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Yes | 1·03 | 0·81, 1·30 | 0·82‡ | 0·65, 1·03 | 0·64‡ | 0·40, 1·01 |
| No. of siblings aged <3 years | 0·79† | 0·64, 0·98 | 0·78† | 0·63, 0·97 | 0·62† | 0·40, 0·95 |
| Child was first-born | ||||||
| No | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Yes | 1·09 | 0·87, 1·36 | 0·94 | 0·76, 1·15 | 0·70‡ | 0·48, 1·01 |
| Low birth weight – subjective | ||||||
| No | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Yes | 0·93 | 0·64, 1·35 | 0·82 | 0·57, 1·17 | 1·18 | 0·59, 2·36 |
| Rural area | ||||||
| No | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. | 1·00 | Ref. |
| Yes | 0·85 | 0·67, 1·07 | 0·83‡ | 0·67, 1·04 | 1·07 | 0·73, 1·57 |
| Observations | 2209 | 2210 | 2210 | |||
Ref., reference category.
Odds ratio with 95 % confidence interval from the multivariate logistic regression models, stratified by WHO feeding guidelines, conditional on socio-economic variables.
All the covariates listed in the table were included for each model.
*Significant at 1 % level.
†Significant at 5 % level.
‡Significant at 10 % level.