Table 9. Significant (p<0.05) predictors of vegetables and fruits (grams) during the dry and rainy seasons in Malawi, from multivariate models adjusted for all predictors significant (p<0.10) in univariate models.
| Driver of food consumption | Vegetables | Fruits | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mother | Child | Mother | Child | |||||
| Dry | Rainy | Dry | Rainy | Dry | Rainy | Dry | Rainy | |
| Mother-child dyad | ||||||||
| Overweight mother, normal weight child (vs. both overweight) | ||||||||
| Accessibility | ||||||||
| Kasungu district (vs. Lilongwe) | ||||||||
| Other family member primarily buys food (vs. mother) | ||||||||
| Female autonomy | ||||||||
| Affordability | ||||||||
| Well borehole (vs. piped) | ||||||||
| Number of household assets | ||||||||
| HFIAS score | ||||||||
| Amount spent on special foods for children | ||||||||
| Desirability | ||||||||
| Taste preference: vegetables | ||||||||
| Other factors | ||||||||
| Age of child | ||||||||
Black is inversely associated, grey is positively associated.