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Household food security and infant feeding practices in rural Bangladesh
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Owais, Aatekah Kleinbaum, David G. Suchdev, Parminder S. Faruque, Asg Das, Sumon K. Schwartz, Benjamin Stein, Aryeh D. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | Objective: To determine the association between household food security and infant complementary feeding practices in rural Bangladesh.Design: Prospective, cohort study using structured home interviews during pregnancy and 3 and 9 months after delivery. We used two indicators of household food security at 3-months’ follow-up: maternal Food Composition Score (FCS), calculated via the World Food Programme method, and an HHFS index created from an eleven-item food security questionnaire. Infant feeding practices were characterized using WHO definitions.Setting: Two rural sub-districts of Kishoreganj, Bangladesh.Subjects: Mother–child dyads (n 2073) who completed the 9-months’ follow-up.Results: Complementary feeding was initiated at age ≤4 months for 7 %, at 5–6 months for 49 % and at ≥7 months for 44 % of infants. Based on 24 h dietary recall, 98 % of infants were still breast-feeding at age 9 months, and 16 % received ≥4 food groups and ≥4 meals (minimally acceptable diet) in addition to breast milk. Mothers’ diet was more diverse than infants’. The odds of receiving a minimally acceptable diet for infants living in most food-secure households were three times those for infants living in least food-secure households (adjusted OR=3·0; 95 % CI 2·1, 4·3). Socio-economic status, maternal age, literacy, parity and infant sex were not associated with infant diet.Conclusions: HHFS and maternal FCS were significant predictors of subsequent infant feeding practices. Nevertheless, even the more food-secure households had poor infant diet. Interventions aimed at improving infant nutritional status need to focus on both complementary food provision and education. |
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| Ending Page | 1881 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| Starting Page | 1875 |
| ISSN | 13689800 |
| e-ISSN | 14752727 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1368980015003195 |
| Journal | Public Health Nutrition |
| Issue Number | 10 |
| Volume Number | 19 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2015-11-13 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Public Health Nutrition Nutrition and Dietetics Household Food Securitymaternal Diet Infant Feeding Practices Rural Bangladesh |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Nutrition and Dietetics Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health |
