TABLE 4.
Adjusted logistic regression coefficients of predictive power of demographic characteristics on IYCF practices (iron-rich and iron-fortified foods and minimum acceptable diet)1
| Fed iron rich foods or iron fortified products (children aged 6–23 mo) |
Fed minimum acceptable diet (children 6–23 mo) |
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| Maternal construct | Variable | 2006 (n = 771) | 2011 (n = 668) | 2006 (n = 771) | 2011 (n = 581) |
| Informational social support | Maternal literacy (referent: maternal illiteracy) | 1.61 (1.10, 2.37)* | 0.86 (0.58, 1.30 | 2.25 (1.13, 4.47)* | 2.34 (0.90, 6.14) |
| Informational social support | Maternal exposure to media (referent: no media exposure) | 1.08 (0.71, 1.66) | 1.36 (0.83, 2.26) | 1.49 (0.64, 3.48) | Omitted2 |
| Autonomy–multiple domains | Decision making (referent: no participation in household decisions) | 0.62 (0.41, 0.95)* | 0.48 (0.30, 0.76)** | 1.30 (0.64, 3.48) | 0.87 (0.35, 2.20) |
| Reproductive decision making | Adolescent mother (referent: first birth at age >16 y) | 0.75 (0.52, 1.08) | 1.19 (0.81, 1.75) | 1.30 (0.62, 2.71) | 0.87 (0.36, 2.04) |
| Marketplace access | Maternal employment (referent: no employment in last 12 mo) | 0.77 (0.43, 1.38) | 0.78 (0.52, 1.17) | 0.87 (0.50, 1.59) | 0.34 (0.17, 0.67)** |
| Emotional social support | Married or living with partner (referent: single/separated/divorced/widowed) | 1.38 (0.78, 2.46) | 2.25 (1.21, 4.20)* | 0.91 (0.36, 2.32) | 1.36 (0.37, 4.99) |
| Physical autonomy | Negative beliefs about domestic violence (referent: acceptance of husband’s abuse of wife) | 1.03 (0.72, 1.47) | 0.98 (0.71, 1.37) | 0.40 (1.12, 3.79)* | 0.97 (0.50, 1.89) |
| Physical autonomy | Travel away from home (referent: no travel away from home) | 1.12 (0.81, 1.56) | 1.37 (0.96, 1.95) | 2.36 (1.38, 4.04)** | 1.43 (0.71, 2.91) |
| Education | No maternal education (referent: any education) | 1.01 (0.64, 1.58) | 0.98 (0.56, 1.70) | 0.66 (0.29, 1.46) | 2.44 (0.28, 21.12) |
| Health care access | Delivered in a health facility (referent: delivered at home) | 1.06 (0.76, 1.46) | 1.68 (1.19, 2.37)** | 0.39 (0.22, 3.78) | 1.02 (0.51, 2.05) |
| Income poverty | Household is in the upper 60% wealth index | 0.89 (0.64, 1.24) | 0.78 (0.54, 1.11) | 2.06 (1.12, 3.78)* | 1.10 (0.53, 2.28) |
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.
Variable omitted because it predicts outcome perfectly.