Demiss, Mastewal (2016) Child Undernutrition and Infant and Young Child Feeding Indicators: A Secondary Analysis of EDHS 2011. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: - Optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices play an important role in reducing early childhood morbidity and mortality, as well as in improving early child growth and development. There are different predictors of child nutritional outcomes like economic and contextual factors. But infant nutritional status (stunting, wasting and underweight) can be associated with an immediate cause such as infant feeding practice. Objectives: To determine the association between WHO core IYCF indicator and different forms of child under nutrition in Ethiopia. Methods: Data from the 2011 Ethiopia Demographic Health Surveys (EDHS), which is nationally representative data, were used. The study subjects were Last born infants and their mothers.Analyses were conducted using multiple linear regression and logisticregression analyses adjusted for the complex survey design of the survey, controllingfor child, maternal and household characteristics.Regression models used the ‘svy’ command in STATA to ensure that standard errors &adjusted for the complex survey design. Result: A total of 3826 children are included in the analysis. After adjusting for possible confounders minimum acceptable diet (AOR 0.39, 95%CI 0.18-0.84) & minimum diet diversity with (AOR 0.48 95% 0.24-0.96) was found to be significantly associated with stunting. Similarly minimum acceptable diet (AOR 0.36, 95%CI 0.13-0.98) & minimum diet diversity (0.33 95%CI (0.12-0.87) was found to be significantly associated with underweight. Among the IYCF indicators only minimum meal frequency (AOR 0.70, 95% 0.51-0.96) was found to be significantly associated with wasting.But exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) had no association with underweight. Conclusion & Recommendation: Achieving Minimum acceptable diet and minimum diet diversity are protective against stunting and underweight. And minimum meal frequency was still protective against wasting. Programmatic interventions that support a focus on complementary feeding and EBF should be implemented.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2018 06:52 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2018 06:52 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7027 |
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