TABLE 3.
Adjusted logistic regression coefficients of predictive power of demographic characteristics on IYCF practices (timing of complementary foods, feeding frequency, and dietary diversity)1
| Timely introduction of complementary foods |
Fed minimum times per day |
Fed minimum dietary diversity |
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| Variable | Maternal construct | 2006 (n = 140) | 2011 (n = 120) | 2006 (n = 771) | 2011 (n = 666) | 2006 (n = 771) | 2011 (n = 668) |
| Informational social support | Maternal literacy (referent: maternal illiteracy) | 0.66 (0.21, 2.08) | 1.26 (0.39, 4.12) | 1.87 (1.28, 2.74)** | 1.66 (1.11, 2.48)* | 1.27 (0.82, 1.96) | 1.55 (0.86, 2.82) |
| Informational social support | Maternal exposure to media (referent: no media exposure) | 0.89 (0.29, 2.73) | 0.46 (0.09, 2.22) | 0.55 (0.37, 0.83)** | 1.71 (1.01, 2.91)* | 1.75 (1.0, 3.08) | 1.74 (0.77, 3.96) |
| Autonomy–multiple domains | Decision making (referent: no participation in household decisions) | 0.32 (0.07, 1.50) | 0.30 (0.05, 1.72) | 1.12 (0.72, 1.73) | 1.11 (0.69, 1.78) | 1.10 (0.67, 1.79) | 0.79 (0.43, 1.47) |
| Reproductive decision making | Adolescent mother (referent: first birth at age >16 y) | 1.22 (0.46, 3.24) | 3.53 (0.86, 14.5) | 0.99 (0.70, 1.41) | 0.91 (0.61, 1.36) | 0.88 (0.59, 1.33) | 0.91 (0.51, 1.59) |
| Marketplace access | Maternal employment (referent: no employment in last 12 mo) | 0.25 (0.02, 4.14) | 2.32 (0.63, 8.51) | 1.31 (0.71, 2.40) | 0.78 (0.52, 1.17) | 0.78 (0.42, 1.45) | 0.60 (0.36, 1.02) |
| Emotional social support | Married or living with partner (referent: single/separated/divorced/widowed) | 1.58 (0.60, 4.11) | 1.63 (0.10, 14.03) | 1.53 (0.83, 2.83) | 1.76 (0.91, 3.41) | 0.83 (0.43, 1.59) | 1.10 (0.48, 2.48) |
| Physical autonomy | Negative beliefs about domestic violence (referent: acceptance of husband’s abuse of wife) | 1.58 (0.60, 4.11) | 1.65 (0.55, 4.98) | 0.81 (0.57, 1.16) | 1.16 (0.84, 1.62) | 1.02 (0.68, 1.52) | 0.94 (0.60, 1.48) |
| Physical autonomy | Travel away from home (referent: no travel away from home) | 2.48 (0.93, 6.64) | 0.99 (0.35, 2.78) | 1.01 (0.73, 1.41) | 1.13 (0.80, 1.62) | 1.69 (1.18, 2.43)** | 1.51 (0.94, 2.42) |
| Education | No maternal education (referent: any education) | 1.37 (0.41, 4.60) | 0.27 (0.33, 2.25) | 0.97 (0.62, 1.51) | 1.29 (0.72, 2.34) | 1.71 (0.97, 3.03) | 2.67 (0.78, 9.08) |
| Health care access | Delivered in a health facility (referent: delivered at home) | 2.60 (0.91, 7.46) | 0.21 (0.06, 0.73) | 0.83 (0.60, 1.14) | 0.80 (0.71, 1.45) | 0.78 (0.54, 1.13) | 1.18 (0.74, 1.90) |
| Income poverty | Household is in the upper 60% wealth index | 1.14 (0.46, 2.81) | 3.10 (1.01, 9.54)* | 1.87 (1.33, 2.63)* | 1.02 (0.71, 1.45) | 2.09 (1.40, 3.10)* | 1.94 (1.15, 3.29)* |
Values are ORs (95% CIs). Weighted analysis includes all children 0–23 mo of age with complete anthropometric and child feeding data, n = 1009 in 2006 and n = 888 in 2011. The sample was further divided based on age restrictions of specific IYCF indicators, noted in column headings. The proportion of risk factors according to subsamples for age-restricted IYCF subsamples reflects the risk factor prevalence for the total sample. In 2006, there was a ≤7% range across age strata for the prevalence of all risk factors except travel away from home, in which 41% of mothers of children <6 mo of age traveled away from home compared with 30.6% of mothers of children aged 12–18 mo. In 2011, there was a ≤4% range across child age stratas, except in the case of maternal literacy in 2011 (43.3% in mothers of children <6 mo of age, and 34.5% in mothers of children aged 6 to <12 mo) and negative beliefs about wife beating in 2011, in which 33.3% of mothers of children <6 mo of age had negative views compared with 47% of mothers of children aged 12–18 mo. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01. IYCF, infant and young child feeding.