Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories
Despite the efforts to promote good practices in infant and young child feeding (IYCF), the adoption of such practices has been low. Using data from a sample of 665 women, and the theory of planned behavior, we examine the effect of different types of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on...
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| author | Mutiso, J.M. Okello, J.J. Lagerkvist, Carl Johan Muoki, Penina Ngusye Kosura, W.O. Heck, S. |
| author_browse | Heck, S. Kosura, W.O. Lagerkvist, Carl Johan Muoki, Penina Ngusye Mutiso, J.M. Okello, J.J. |
| author_facet | Mutiso, J.M. Okello, J.J. Lagerkvist, Carl Johan Muoki, Penina Ngusye Kosura, W.O. Heck, S. |
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| description | Despite the efforts to promote good practices in infant and young child feeding (IYCF), the adoption of such practices has been low. Using data from a sample of 665 women, and the theory of planned behavior, we examine the effect of different types of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on the use of recommended IYCF practices. Regression results show that nutrition education and psychosocial factors have strong positive effect on the extent to which IYCF practices are used, with the latter having conflicting individual but overall positive effect. Moreover, coefficients of latter were mostly less than those of the former indicating that pschosocial factors were less important in explaining variability in usage of IYCF than the nutrition education variables. It further finds that different sets of nutrition education and psychosocial factors affect different categories of women, with interactive nutrition education approaches having a greater effect. The findings also suggest need for targeting of beneficiaries with multiple nutrition education approaches. |
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| spelling | CGSpace969252025-11-29T05:22:16Z Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories Mutiso, J.M. Okello, J.J. Lagerkvist, Carl Johan Muoki, Penina Ngusye Kosura, W.O. Heck, S. child feeding sweet potatoes nutrition education Despite the efforts to promote good practices in infant and young child feeding (IYCF), the adoption of such practices has been low. Using data from a sample of 665 women, and the theory of planned behavior, we examine the effect of different types of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on the use of recommended IYCF practices. Regression results show that nutrition education and psychosocial factors have strong positive effect on the extent to which IYCF practices are used, with the latter having conflicting individual but overall positive effect. Moreover, coefficients of latter were mostly less than those of the former indicating that pschosocial factors were less important in explaining variability in usage of IYCF than the nutrition education variables. It further finds that different sets of nutrition education and psychosocial factors affect different categories of women, with interactive nutrition education approaches having a greater effect. The findings also suggest need for targeting of beneficiaries with multiple nutrition education approaches. 2018-07-06 2018-08-27T02:35:40Z 2018-08-27T02:35:40Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/96925 en Open Access Informa UK Limited Mutiso, J.M.; Okello, J.J.; Lagerkvist, C.J.; Muoki, P.; Kosura, W.O.; Heck, S. 2018. Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. ISSN 0367-0244. 57:4. p. 346-371 |
| spellingShingle | child feeding sweet potatoes nutrition education Mutiso, J.M. Okello, J.J. Lagerkvist, Carl Johan Muoki, Penina Ngusye Kosura, W.O. Heck, S. Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories |
| title | Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories |
| title_full | Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories |
| title_fullStr | Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories |
| title_short | Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories |
| title_sort | effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories |
| topic | child feeding sweet potatoes nutrition education |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/96925 |
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