Household Food Insecurity and Its Association with Nutritional Status of Children 6–59 Months of Age in East Badawacho District, South Ethiopia

Table 10

Factors associated with nutritional status of children, 6–59 months of age, as measured by stunting (height for age) in East Badawacho Woreda, South Ethiopia, February 2014.

Variable	Stunting status		COR (95.0% CI)	AOR (95.0% CI)
	Stunted	Normal
	N (%)	N (%)
HHFI status
Food insecure	205 (90.7)	171 (63.3)	5.65 (3.38–9.44)	6.70 (3.71–12.11)
Food secure	21 (9.3)	99 (36.7)	1.00	1.00
Child sex
Male	112 (49.6)	133 (49.3)	1.01 (0.71–1.44)	0.88 (0.61–1.31)
Female	114 (50.4)	137 (50.7)	1.00	1.00
Child age in months
6–11	32 (14.2)	35 (13.0)	1.00	1.00
12–23	60 (26.5)	71 (26.3)	0.92 (0.51–1.66)	1.14 (0.61–2.14)
24–35	52 (23.0)	90 (33.3)	0.63 (0.35–1.14)	0.84 (0.44–1.59)
36–47	64 (28.3)	43 (15.9)	1.63 (0.88–3.01)	2.17 (1.11–4.28)
48–59	18 (8.0)	31 (11.5)	0.63 (0.29–1.35)	0.93 (0.41–2.08)
Initiation of CF
<5 months	57 (25.2)	43 (15.9)	1.75 (1.12–2.74)	2.41 (1.36–4.27)
6–8 months	158 (69.9)	209 (77.4)	1.00	1.00
>9 months	11 (4.9)	18 (6.7)	0.81 (0.37–1.76)	1.05 (0.43–2.55)
Education of mother
No education	110 (48.7)	107 (39.6)	2.09 (1.21–3.61)	0.95 (0.48–1.86)
Primary	91 (40.3)	112 (41.5)	1.65 (0.95–2.88)	0.76 (0.38–1.52)
Secondary and above	25 (11.1)	51 (18.9)	1.00	1.00
Ever breastfeed
No	35 (15.5)	42 (15.6)	0.99 (0.61–1.62)	0.77 (0.39–1.54)
Yes	191 (84.5)	228 (84.4)	1.00	1.00
Frequency of feeding
<3 times	159 (70.4)	164 (60.7)	1.53 (1.05–2.23)	0.99 (0.62–1.56)
4 times	67 (29.6)	106 (39.3)	1.00	1.00

value < 0.05.