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Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories

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Title Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories
 
Creator Mutiso, J.M.
Okello, J.J.
Lagerkvist, C.J.
Muoki, P.
Kosura, W.O.
Heck, S.
 
Subject child feeding
sweet potatoes
nutrition education
 
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.
 
Date 2018-07-04
2018-08-27T02:35:40Z
2018-08-27T02:35:40Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier 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
0367-0244
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/96925
https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2018.1492382
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 346-371
 
Publisher Informa UK Limited
 
Source Ecology of Food and Nutrition