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. 2015 Sep 16;145(11):2578–2586. doi: 10.3945/jn.115.214346

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
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)*
1

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.