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- Title
Maternal and child nutrition services associated with nutritional knowledge and practices, India.
- Authors
Andersen, Christopher T.; Chopra, Parvesh K.; Dave, Niraj; Hariprasad, Deepali; Kak, Mohini; Pandey, Rahul; Tanwar, Devendra; Chaudhery, Deepika Nayar
- Abstract
Objective To evaluate whether maternal and child nutrition activities provided through the Indian Integrated Child Development Services scheme in India were associated with improved nutritional knowledge and practices among beneficiary women. Methods We used a multistage sampling design to randomly select 4400 pregnant women or mothers of children younger than 2 years for a cross-sectional telephone survey. The respondents were beneficiaries of the scheme from across 11 Indian states. We used multivariate regression models controlling for sociodemographic factors to estimate the association between: scheme activities and nutrition messages heard; and scheme activities and nutrition practices. We also estimated the proportion of the total association with nutrition practices which was mediated by nutrition messages. Results Among 110 regression models testing unique pairs of seven activities and 18 nutrition messages, 103 showed a statistically significant positive relationship (median risk ratio, RR: 1.14). For activities and nine nutrition practices, 39 out of 54 tested pairs were significantly associated (median RR: 1.16). We observed statistically significant mediation through nutrition messages for 28 out of 42 tested pairs of activities and nutrition practices. Conclusion Receipt of the scheme's activities was associated with improved nutrition knowledge and practices. Improvements in practices were statistically mediated by improvements in knowledge. These findings suggest that a large-scale nutrition scheme with a strong counselling component could successfully change beneficiary behaviours.
- Subjects
INDIA; MATERNAL health services; FOOD habits; EVALUATION of medical care; MOTHERS; ATTITUDES of mothers; CROSS-sectional method; MULTIPLE regression analysis; NUTRITION counseling; PREGNANT women; HEALTH literacy; SURVEYS; NUTRITION education; CHILD health services; HEALTH behavior; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STATISTICAL sampling; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); ODDS ratio; HEALTH promotion; CHANGE theory; EVALUATION
- Publication
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2024, Vol 102, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
0042-9686
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2471/BLT.22.289129