The Bulacan nutrition and health study: Part 1. Baseline socioeconomic and related characteristics of subject families and their impact on the nutritional health of infants

Solon, Florentino S.; Florentino, Rodolfo F.; Arnold, Jesse C.; Engel, R. W.; Aguillon, D. B.; Tandez, A.; Zamora, Pamela Pereyra

doi:10.1080/03670244.1985.9990870

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“…In addition to the implementation of policies to increase the level of formal education among women, IYCF education programs should be targeted toward women with little formal education, because higher maternal nutrition knowledge has been demonstrated to partially compensate for low education in some contexts (39,49). Although it was not evident from our middle-income study setting, it should be noted that the beneficial influence of maternal knowledge or formal education on child growth is understood to be dependent on a minimum level of access to resources (39,(50)(51)(52)(53). Nonetheless, our findings support the growing interest in increasing maternal educational attainment as a potential intervention toward improving child health outcomes (18,(54)(55)(56).…”

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Dietary Diversity at 6 Months of Age Is Associated with Subsequent Growth and Mediates the Effect of Maternal Education on Infant Growth in Urban Zambia

Mallard

Houghton

Filteau

et al. 2014

The Journal of Nutrition

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Dietary Diversity at 6 Months of Age Is Associated with Subsequent Growth and Mediates the Effect of Maternal Education on Infant Growth in Urban Zambia

Mallard

Houghton

Filteau

et al. 2014

The Journal of Nutrition

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“…Effective utilisation of knowledge and skills gained from health and nutrition education is expected to improve the health and nutritional status of children through improved knowledge and care practices. However, some studies have reported that maternal nutritional knowledge is positively associated with the nutritional status of children ( 37 – 39 ) .…”

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Effect of nutrition behaviour change communication delivered through radio on mothers’ nutritional knowledge, child feeding practices and growth

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Childhood undernutrition coupled with poor feeding practices continues to be public health problems in many parts of the world and efforts to address them remain elusive. We tested the hypothesis that women who are exposed to radio health/nutrition education will demonstrate greater nutrition and health knowledge, positive attitudes towards preventive health and better dietary diversity practices for improved child growth. We used a two-arm, quasi-experimental, non-equivalent comparison group design with pre- and post-test observations to evaluate the intervention. The study population comprised 712 mothers with children aged 6–36 months who were randomly selected from five intervention districts and one comparison district in Northern Ghana. Difference-in-difference (DID) analysis was performed to assess study outcomes. After 12-month implementation of intervention activities, the minimum dietary diversity and the minimum acceptable diet improved significantly (DID 9⋅7 percentage points, P 0⋅014 and DID 12⋅1 percentage points, P 0⋅001, respectively) in the intervention study group, compared with the comparison group. Mothers in the intervention communities had a nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes and practices score that was significantly higher than their colleagues in the comparison communities (DID 0⋅646, P < 0⋅001). The intervention did not have significant effects on the nutritional status as measured by height-for-age Z-score or weight-for-height Z-score. The data provide evidence that health and nutrition education using radio drama significantly increased health-/nutrition-related knowledge but had little effect on nutritional status.

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“…A number of studies showed that the importance of household wealth for child nutrition and health varies according to maternal education (12)(13)(14)(15). For instance, in Benin, the positive effect of wealth on child nutritional status was larger in households with a more educated mother (15).…”

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Maternal Education Mitigates the Negative Effects of Higher Income on the Double Burden of Child Stunting and Maternal Overweight in Rural Mexico

Leroy

Habicht

Cossío

et al. 2014

The Journal of Nutrition

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Globally, the rate at which maternal overweight and obesity increase with rising wealth is higher than the accompanying decline in the prevalence of child stunting, resulting in the double burden of malnutrition. The positive association between household wealth and child linear growth is larger in households with a more educated mother. However, whether a similar positive and synergistic association between maternal education and household wealth is observed for maternal body weight is unknown. Our objective was to assess the potential protective role of maternal education in the etiology of the double burden of malnutrition (stunted child with an overweight mother). We used data on 1547 nonpregnant mothers (aged 18-49 y) and their children (aged 0-5 y) collected in a cross-sectional survey in 235 rural communities in southern Mexico. Child height-for-age Z-score and maternal body weight were regressed on household wealth, women's schooling, and the interaction between both, controlling for relevant covariates. A similar model was used for the prevalence of double-burden pairs (stunted child with an overweight mother). In mothers with less than primary school, a doubling in wealth was not associated with improved child's height but was associated with an increase in mother's weight (3.7%, P < 0.01). In mothers who had completed primary school, the reverse was found: a doubling in wealth score was associated with improved child height-for-age Z-score (0.32 SD, P < 0.01) but not with mother's weight. As a result, a 100% increase in wealth among households with less schooled mothers was associated with a 4.5 percentage point increase (P < 0.05) in double-burden pairs; in households with mothers with primary schooling or more, it was not associated with the occurrence of double-burden pairs. Maternal schooling effectively mitigated the negative effects of household wealth on the prevalence of double-burden households in rural Mexico. Where maternal schooling is low, poverty reduction must be accompanied by effective behavior change communication to prevent child stunting and to protect women from unhealthy weight gain.

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The Bulacan nutrition and health study: Part 1. Baseline socioeconomic and related characteristics of subject families and their impact on the nutritional health of infants

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Dietary Diversity at 6 Months of Age Is Associated with Subsequent Growth and Mediates the Effect of Maternal Education on Infant Growth in Urban Zambia

Dietary Diversity at 6 Months of Age Is Associated with Subsequent Growth and Mediates the Effect of Maternal Education on Infant Growth in Urban Zambia

Effect of nutrition behaviour change communication delivered through radio on mothers’ nutritional knowledge, child feeding practices and growth

Maternal Education Mitigates the Negative Effects of Higher Income on the Double Burden of Child Stunting and Maternal Overweight in Rural Mexico

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