Table 1.

Feeding practices and scoring system used to create infant/child feeding index for HIV exposed infants aged 6–17 months, by age group, 2012

Variables	6-9 months	9 -11 months	12 -17 months
Current breast feeding	No = 0	No = 0	No = 1
	Yes = 2	Yes = 2	Yes =1
Bottle feeding (24 Hrs recall)	Yes =0	Ye =0	Yes =0
	No = 1	No = 1	No = 1
Dietary diversity (past 24 hours)	None of the foods/groups: Score = 0	None of the foods groups :Score = 0	None or one of the foods/groups: Score = 0
	One food group: score = 1	One to two foods groups: Score = 1	Two or three foods/groups: Score = 1
	Two or more food groups: score = 2	Three or more food groups: Score = 2	Four or more foods/groups: Score = 2
Frequency of feeding	Not at all: Score = 0	Not at all: Score = 0	Not at all or once: Score = 0
solids/semi-solids (past 24 hours)	Once: Score = 1	Once or twice: Score = 1	Twice: Score = 1
	2 or more times: Score = 2	3 or more times: Score = 2	Three times: Score = 2
			Four times or more: Score = 3
Seven day qusi food group frequency @	0 (no foods prev. week): Score = 0	0 or 1: Score = 0	0 through 3: Score = 0
	1 or 2: Score = 1	2 through 4: Score = 1	4 through 6: Score =1
	3 or higher: Score =2	5 or higher: Score = 2	7 or higher: Score =2
Mother reports hand washing before cooking food	Yes =1	Yes =1	Yes =1
	No =0	No =0	No =0
Wash hand before feeding the child	Yes =1	Yes =1	Yes =1
	No = 0	No = 0	No = 0
Does the infant get help to eat yesterday?	Yes = 1	Yes = 1	Yes = 1
	No =0	No =0	No =0
What does caregiver do when child refuses to eat?
A) Nothing (child left alone)	a = 0	a = 0	a = 0
B) Other *	b = 1	b = 1	b = 1
Total (maximum , minimum)	13,0	13,0	13,0

*coax, play with, force, change food, not a problem., @ This is a modified food group frequency, where the questions are asked in the form, How many days in the last seven days was (name) given (food group)?,î so that the number entered for each child is the number of days, with a maximum of seven, not the number of times the child ate a food from the group.