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. 2014 Feb 18;14:49. doi: 10.1186/1471-2431-14-49

Table 4.

Internal consistency of CS-ICFI and its correlation with ICFI components among HIV exposed infants in Sidama Zone, South Ethiopia, 2012

  All (n = 175)
6-8 months (n = 69)
9-11 months
12-17
  (n = 44) months (n = 62)
Cronbach’s α¢
0.67
0.68
0.70
0.71
Components of ICFI
r*
α‟
r*
α‟
r*
α‟
r*
α‟
Meal frequency score#
0.81
0.56
0.77
0.55
0.68
0.6
0.78
0.59
Dietary diversity score#
0.80
0.59
0.69
0.55
0.61
0.61
0.73
0.62
7 day food frequency
0.71
0.6
0.53
0.56
0.4
0.64
0.61
0.64
Psycho social support during food refusal#
0.32
0.67
0.33
0.68
0.27
0.67
.0.50
0.67
Infant get help to eat#
0.65
0.65
0.44
0.65
0.35
0.65
0.56
0.66
Bottle feeding#
-0.15
0.71
0.41
0.72
-0.06
0.70
0.10
0.72
Washing hands before cooking child food#
0.67
0.67
0.29
0.67
0.20
0.67
0.24
0.68
Wash hands before feeding #
0.67
0.67
0.28
0.55
0.23
0.67
0.39
0.69
Current breast feeding# 0.02 0.71 0.46 0.72 0.27 0.66 0.27 0.70

¢α value when all items included *correlation of each component with CS-ICFI ‟α value when Item removed, #24 hour recall.