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Indices de diversité alimentaire : mesure et utilisation chez des femmes en âge de procréer au Burkina Faso
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Savy, Mathilde |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | Objectives: to compare dietary diversity scores measured over a 1-day and a 3-day period, and to assess their relationships with socio-economic characteristics and with the nutritional status of rural African women. Design: a qualitative dietary recall allowed calculation of dietary diversity scores (DDS: number of food groups consumed out of a total of 9). Body mass index (BMI) and body fat percentage (BFP) were used to assess the nutritional status of women. Setting and subjects: a representative sample of 550 mothers in North-East Burkina Faso. Results: The DDS increased from 3.5 to 4.4 food groups when calculated from a 1-day or a 3- day recall (p calculated from a 1-day recall was higher when a market day occurred during the recall period. Both DDS were linked to the socio-demographic and economic characteristics of the women. Women in the lowest DDS tercile calculated from the 1-day recall had a mean BMI of 20.5 kg/m2 and 17.7% of them were underweight, versus 21.6 kg/m2 and 3.5% for those in the highest tercile (p=0.0003 and 0.0007, respectively). The DDS calculated from the 1-day recall was also linked to mean BFP; all these links remained significant after adjustment for confounders. For the 3-day period, no such relationships were found to be significant after adjustment. Conclusion: The DDS calculated from a 1-day dietary recall was sufficient to predict the women’s nutritional status. In such a context attention should be paid to market days. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers11-03/010039372.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
