Food Insecurity and Not Dietary Diversity Is a Predictor of Nutrition Status in Children within Semiarid Agro-Ecological Zones in Eastern Kenya

Table 3

Nutritional status of children in relation to selected sociodemographic and economic characteristics.

Characteristics	Stunting status				Bivariate analysis				Multivariate analysis
	Stunted		Normal		OR	95% CI		value	AOR	95% CI		value
		%		%		Lower	Upper			Lower	Upper
Age of the child in months
6–23	47	29.6	112	70.4	1.00
24–36	46	39.7	70	60.3	1.57	0.95	2.59	0.081
Sex of the child
Male	49	36.0	87	64.0	1.22	0.74	2.01	0.443
Female	44	31.7	95	68.3	1.00
Age in years of the woman
15–30	51	29.0	125	71.0	1.00				1.00
3–46	42	42.4	57	57.6	1.81	1.08	3.02	0.024	1.77	1.05	2.97	0.032
Education level of the woman
Primary and below	78	35.1	144	64.9	1.47	0.75	2.88	0.259
Secondary and above	14	26.9	38	73.1	1.00
Marital status of the woman
Never married	9	34.6	17	65.4	0.74	0.18	3.02	0.676
Married	76	32.9	155	67.1	0.69	0.21	2.23	0.532
Separated/divorced/widowed	5	41.7	7	58.3	1.00
Ecological zone
LM4	43	31.6	93	68.4	1.00
LM5	50	36.0	89	64.0	1.22	0.74	2.00	0.445
Household with severe food insecurity
Yes	87	36.6%	151	63.4%	2.98	1.19	7.42	0.015	2.90	1.16	7.25	0.023
No	6	16.2%	31	83.8%	1.00				1.00
DDS of children
Inadequate	75	36.4	131	63.6	1.62	0.88	2.98	0.117
Adequate	18	26.1	51	73.9
Household size
3-4 people	13	39.4	20	60.6	1.16	0.53	2.52	0.709
5-6 people	29	29.0	71	71.0	0.73	0.42	1.27	0.261
≥7 people	51	35.9	91	64.1	1.00
NS of the woman
Underweight	12	30.0	28	70.0	0.88	0.36	2.18	0.789
Normal	65	34.9	121	65.1	1.11	0.57	2.16	0.764
Overweight	16	32.7	33	67.3	1.00

Age of woman in years, nutritional status significant at .