Table 4.

Association between maternal social capital and dietary diversity score, minimum dietary diversity, and minimum meal frequency among children aged 6 to 12 months in Habro and Melka Bello districts, Ethiopia (n = 870)

	Dietary diversity score	P	Minimum dietary diversity	P	Minimum meal frequency	P
	OR [95% CI]a		OR [95% CI]b		OR [95% CI]b
Support from individuals
No support	1.00		1.00		1.00
1 individual	0.94 [0.56, 1.57]	.70	1.27 [0.62, 2.62]	.51	2.21 [0.89, 5.50]	.09
2 or more individuals	1.84 [0.97, 3.51]	.06	5.20 [1.32, 20.4]	.02	1.00	‐
Group membership
None	1.00		1.00		1.00
Member of 1 group	1.50 [0.89, 2.51]	.13	0.88 [0.52, 1.49]	.64	0.35 [0.20, 0.59]	<.001
Member of 2 or more groups	2.18 [0.97, 4.86]	.06	1.48 [0.46, 4.77]	.51	1.00	‐
Involved in citizenship activity
No involvement in citizenship	1.00		1.00		1.00
Talked or joined in community matters	1.52 [0.91, 2.52]	.11	1.23 [0.57, 2.68]	.60	0.39 [0.20, 0.76]	<.01
Talked and joined in community matters	1.04 [0.56, 1.94]	.90	0.67 [0.27, 1.70]	.40	2.18 [1.13, 4.21]	.02
Cognitive social capital
Low	1.00		1.00		1.00
High	1.13 [0.75, 1.71]	.56	0.85 [0.56, 1.30]	.46	0.56 [0.30, 1.03]	.06

^aEstimated by ordinal logistic regression adjusted for location of district (i.e., Habro or Melka Bello), religion, household head (i.e., father, mother, or others), household food insecurity, household wealth index, mother's age and education, number of parity, infant sex and age, and geographical clustering at kebele level.

Estimated by logistic regression adjusted for location of district (i.e., Habro or Melka Bello), religion, household head (i.e., father, mother, or others), household food insecurity, household wealth index, mother's age and education, number of parity, infant sex and age, and geographical clustering at kebele level.