Influence of gender and parental migration on IYCF practices in 6-23-month-old tribal children in Banswara district, India: findings from the cross-sectional PANChSHEEEL study.
Influence of gender and parental migration on IYCF practices in 6-23-month-old tribal children in Banswara district, India: findings from the cross-sectional PANChSHEEEL study.
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10.1186/s40795-021-00491-7
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发表时间:
2022-01-27
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影响因子:
2
通讯作者:
Lakhanpaul M
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Modugu HR;Khanna R;Dash A;Manikam L;Parikh P;Benton L;Sharma S;Santwani N;Roy S;Chaturvedi H;Pattanaik SP;Lall MC;Vijay VK;Lakhanpaul M
The interdisciplinary Participatory Approach for Nutrition in Children: Strengthening Health, Education, Engineering and Environment Linkages (PANChSHEEEL) study used a participatory approach to develop locally-feasible and tailored solutions to optimise Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices at an individual, household, community, and environmental level. This paper aims to evaluate the influence of gender; migration; and Health, Education, Engineering and Environmental (HEEE) factors on IYCF practices, with the primary outcomes being three key complementary-feeding practices of Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD), Minimum Meal Frequency (MMF) and Minimum Acceptable Diet (MAD). A cross-sectional survey of 325 households with children aged 6–23 months was conducted in nine purposively selected villages in two blocks of Banswara district, Rajasthan, India. A survey tool was developed, translated into the local language, pre-tested, and administered in a gender-sensitive manner. Data-collection processes were standardized to ensure quality measures. Association of the primary outcome with 27 variables was tested using a Chi-square test (Mantel-Haenszel method); backward stepwise regression analysis was conducted to assess the impact of effect modifiers (gender, parental migration). Half of the surveyed children were of each gender, and fathers from half of the households were found to have migrated within the previous year to search for additional income. Parental literacy ranged from 60 to 70%. More than half of the households had access to milk-producing animals. Consumption of each of the seven food groups, eggs (4.7% vs 0.7%; p < 0.02), MDD (10.5% vs 3.2%; p < 0.02) and MAD (9.4% vs 2.6%; p < 0.02) were higher for boys than for girls. After controlling for contextual factors, a male child was 4.1 times more likely to get a diet with MDD and 3.8 times more likely to get a diet with MAD. A child from a non-migrant household was 2.0–2.1 times more likely to get a diet with MDD and MAD as compared to a child from a migrant household. However, this association was not found to be statistically significant after regression. Presence of milk-producing animals in households and consumption of milk/milk products by children in the previous 24 h were the other two strong predictors of MDD and MAD, although access to animal milk in the house did not translate to an increase in consumption of milk/milk products by a child. Gender discrimination in diet diversity and complementary-feeding practices starts early in childhood with boys having a distinct advantage over girls. In the case of parental migration, further research is required to establish if it has an adverse impact on feeding practices. Emphasis needs to be given to gender issues and other contextual factors when developing strategies to optimise complementary feeding practices. With UCL ethics [Ethics ID 4032/002] in United Kingdom and with Sigma IRB [10,025/IRB/D/17–18] in India. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40795-021-00491-7.
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DOI:
10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000014
发表时间:
2021
期刊:
UCL open. Environment
影响因子:
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作者:
Lee, Charlotte;Lakhanpaul, Monica;Stern, Bernardo Maza;Sarkar, Kaushik;Parikh, Priti
通讯作者:
Parikh, Priti
影响因子:
4.5
作者:
Chaturvedi S;Ramji S;Arora NK;Rewal S;Dasgupta R;Deshmukh V;for INCLEN Study Group
通讯作者:
for INCLEN Study Group
影响因子:
2.3
作者:
Dasgupta, Rajib;Chaand, Ipsha;Barla, Kirti Rakshit
通讯作者:
Barla, Kirti Rakshit
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Fledderjohann J;Agrawal S;Vellakkal S;Basu S;Campbell O;Doyle P;Ebrahim S;Stuckler D
通讯作者:
Stuckler D
影响因子:
4.3
作者:
Mitra, Mitashree;Kumar, P. V.;Bharati, P.
通讯作者:
Bharati, P.