Table 10. Significant (p<0.05) predictors of animal-based food groups (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 | Meat and eggs | Fish | Dairy | |||||||||
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Mother | Child | Mother | Child | Mother | Child | |||||||
Dry | Rainy | Dry | Rainy | Dry | Rainy | Dry | Rainy | Dry | Rainy | Dry | Rainy | |
Accessibility | ||||||||||||
Rural (vs. urban) | ||||||||||||
Minutes to nearest food market/shop | ||||||||||||
Other family member primarily buys food (vs. mother) | ||||||||||||
Other transport to buy food (vs. walk) | ||||||||||||
Affordability | ||||||||||||
Number of household assets | ||||||||||||
HFIAS score | ||||||||||||
Amount spent on food for household | ||||||||||||
Amount spent on special foods for children | ||||||||||||
Desirability | ||||||||||||
Taste preference: fish | ||||||||||||
Purchase special foods for children | ||||||||||||
Perceived healthy body size of mother: obese (vs. underweight) | ||||||||||||
Perceived healthy body size of child: normal weight (vs. underweight) | ||||||||||||
Perceived healthy body size of child: overweight (vs. underweight) | ||||||||||||
Perceived healthy body size of child: obese (vs. underweight) | ||||||||||||
Other factors | ||||||||||||
Age of child | ||||||||||||
Female sex of child (vs. male) | ||||||||||||
Child fever in last 2 weeks | ||||||||||||
Mother cough in last 2 weeks |
Black is inversely associated, grey is positively associated.