Infant and young child feeding index and its association with nutritional status: A cross-sectional study of urban slums of Ahmedabad

Chaudhary, Shalu R; Govil, Samarth; Lala, Mrudula K; Yagnik, Hardik B

doi:10.4103/jfcm.jfcm_82_17

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“…6 However it was much higher than the results in the studies of Mondal et al where it was 30.85% and Chaudhary et al where it was 15.7%. 24,25 This may be due to the high rates of illiteracy among the mothers in these studies as compared to the current study. It is much lower than that in the study conducted by Das et al where it was 83.3%.…”

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“…It was less than the value found in the results of a study conducted by Chaudhary et al where it was 26.2% and Demilew et al where it was 23%. 25,32 The practice of bottle feeding is mostly a byproduct of an urban and affluent lifestyle since it is economically demanding. Since both these studies were conducted in urban areas, the similar lifestyle may be posited as an explanation.…”

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Infant and young child feeding practices among tribal mothers in Sambalpur district, Odisha, India

Sahu

Pradhan

Panda

2020

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Indicators of infant and young child and feeding (IYCF) practices have been devised by WHO in order to help objectively assess the prevalence of these practices in the population. IYCF practices play a vital role in the control of infant and child deaths. This study was undertaken to assess the IYCF practices among children aged less than 2 years among the tribal population. Objective of this study to measure the indicators of IYCF practices in children in the 0-23 months age group.Methods: It is a community based, cross sectional study of infant and young child feeding practices among tribal mothers having children younger than 24 months, in Sambalpur district of Odisha from October 2017 to December 2019. The study participants were tribal mothers having children less than 24 months of age. The sample size was 384.Results: Among the study participants, 93.5% belonged to the 21-30 years age bracket, 37.5% had middle school certificate education and 75.3% belonged to the upper lower socioeconomic class. The indicators were continued breastfeeding at 1 year (100%), continued breastfeeding at 2 years (100%) and children ever breastfed (100%), exclusive breastfeeding (98.71%) and bottle feeding (16.36%). A significant association was found between delivery by lower segment caesarean section and delayed initiation of breastfeeding.Conclusions: The indicators related to breastfeeding and complementary feeding were adequate except for minimum dietary diversity and minimum adequate diet.

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Infant and young child feeding practices among tribal mothers in Sambalpur district, Odisha, India

Sahu

Pradhan

Panda

2020

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…6 The optimal use of nutritious food feeding is healthy for child growth and development. 7 Infectious diseases like diarrhea, pneumonia, and measles increase the risk of mortality among those children who are stunted, underweight and wasted children. 8,9 Practices of personal hygiene and sanitation are fundamental to avoid stunting among children and are useful for the growth and development of children (Rah et al, 2015).…”

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Nutrition status and inequality among children in different geographical regions of Maharashtra, India

Khadse

Chaurasia

2020

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health

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Introduction: Nutritional status is influenced by the complex social, biological, environmental and cultural factors that are highly interrelated. Despite being a demographically and economically developed state, Maharashtra has a high prevalence rate of child malnutrition with alarming figures. There is uneven development in different geographical regions. Aim: This paper assesses the extent of nutritional status and inequalities among children in different regions of Maharashtra. Data and Methods: This study utilizes data from the fourth Round of the National Family Health Survey (2015-16), the large-scale survey on demography and health recently conducted. Simple chi-square test was conducted to test the association and, further binary logistic regression analysis was done by adjusting various socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Additionally, to deal with the inequality aspect, concentration curve, concentration index, and decomposition analysis techniques were used to access and measure the degree of socioeconomic inequality in geographical regions of Maharashtra. Results: The result shows that household aspect wealth quintile, religion caste/tribe, mother education, child ever born and different regions of Maharashtra were the main factors contributing to poor child malnutrition. Rural area has the highest percentage of underweight (40%) children followed by stunted (38%) and wasted (26%) respectively. Almost half of the children are underweight whose mother has no education, with 45% of stunted and 26% wasted children. Nandurbar district of North-Maharashtra regions has a prevalence of underweight (56.17 per 100) and stunted (47.38 per 100) children while Gadchiroli district of Vidarbha region has highest prevalence of wasted (46.59 per 100) children respectively. Discussion: Due to lack of proper development, poor awareness about keeping up and improving the dietary benefit of nourishment and absence of cleanliness and sanitation as compared with other social groups. Conclusions: The aim of this paper was to explore the geographical variations in malnutrition in Maharashtra. The present study plentifully uncovers that, as far as child nutrition is concerned, the Scheduled Tribes groups seems to be socially excluded among all the social classes. Economic growth has played a definite role in reducing child nutrition, but it is not primarily responsible for the significant decline. As per the results, we have seen that among rich and poor inequalities exists and were highly significantly different regions of Maharashtra. Recommadations: The paper calls for state and regions specific strategies which are needed to be designed and executed on a priority basis, keeping in view the keeping in view the idea of disparity or the nature of inequality in childhood malnutrition in the state and its differential characteristics across the regions.

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“…Child feeding index is a composite indicator which allows to measure IYCF practices in their entirety [50][51][52]. Reinbott et al reported that a child feeding index is superior to WHO IYCF indicators in explaining length-for-age Z-scores of young children [53].…”

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The Effect of Maternal Depressive Symptoms on Infant Feeding Practices in Rural Ethiopia: Community Based Birth Cohort Study

Woldetensay

Belachew

Ghosh

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Background: Infant feeding is a multidimensional and multi-risk factor practice with a vital role in ensuring optimal child health, growth and development. Maternal depression and other psychosocial factors have been shown to have adverse consequences on feeding practices. However, most of these findings were based on single infant feeding practice (IFP) dimension; for instance, early initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding or introduction of complementary foods. This study aims to explore the longitudinal relationship of maternal depressive symptoms and other selected psychosocial factors with IFPs in rural Ethiopia using summary IFP index. Methods: This study uses existing data from the ENGINE birth cohort study. The study had an open cohort design, with “rolling recruitment” procedure and follow up of pregnant women for a period of two years. It was conducted from March 2014 to March 2016 in three districts in the southwest of Ethiopia. A total of 4680 pregnant women were recruited between 12 and 32 weeks of gestation. Data were collected once during pregnancy for all women (twice for those in the first trimester), at birth, and then every three months until the child was 12 months old. Standardized questionnaire were used to collect data on IFPs, maternal depressive symptoms, household food insecurity, intimate partner violence, maternal social support, active social participation, and other socio-demographic variables. A composite measure of IFP index was computed using 14 WHO recommended infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practice indicators. Prenatal and postnatal maternal depressive symptoms were assessed using the patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9). Linear multilevel mixed effects model was fitted to assess longitudinal relationship of IFPs with maternal depression and other psychosocial factors. Results: Postnatal depressive symptoms (ß= -1.031, P=0.001) and intimate partner violence (ß= -0.208, P=0.001) were inversely and significantly associated with IFPs. However, prenatal maternal depressive symptoms was not significantly associated with IFPs (ß= -0.024, P=0.953). On the other hand, maternal social support (ß= 0.107, P=0.002) and maternal social participation (ß= 0.552, P<0.001) were positively associated with IFPs. Maternal education and gestational age at birth were other important factors positively associated with IFPs. Moreover, contrary to expected, moderate household food insecurity (ß= 0.836, P=0.003), severe household food insecurity (ß= 1.034, P=0.01) and infant morbidity episodes (ß= 0.625, P=0.013) were positively associated with IFPs. Conclusion: Early postnatal depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence were negative predictors of IFPs. On the other hand, maternal social support, social participation, maternal education and gestational age at birth were positive predictors of IFPs. Overall, we can conclude that multitude of factors are related to IFPs and hence coordinated, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder interventions including maternal depressive symptoms screening and management are needed to improve IFPs.

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Infant and young child feeding index and its association with nutritional status: A cross-sectional study of urban slums of Ahmedabad

Cited by 23 publications

References 11 publications

Infant and young child feeding practices among tribal mothers in Sambalpur district, Odisha, India

Infant and young child feeding practices among tribal mothers in Sambalpur district, Odisha, India

Nutrition status and inequality among children in different geographical regions of Maharashtra, India

The Effect of Maternal Depressive Symptoms on Infant Feeding Practices in Rural Ethiopia: Community Based Birth Cohort Study

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