Nearly One in Three Lactating Mothers Is Suffering from Inadequate Dietary Diversity in Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 4

Bivariable and multivariable associations of factors with dietary diversity among lactating mothers in Lay Gayint District, South Gondar Zone, Ethiopia, March 2018.

Variables	Dietary diversity		COR (95% C.I.)	AOR (95% C.I.)
	Adequate	Inadequate
Mobile phone
Yes	103	104	4.6 (2.945, 7.272)	2.29 (1.152–4.546)
No	165	36	1	1
Home gardening
Yes	18	61	10.7 (5.98, 19.22)	4.1 (1.707–9.866)
No	250	79		1
Pulses production
Yes	78	105	7.3 (4.592, 11.629)	4.8 (2.508–9.325)
No	105	35
Income generating activities
Yes	50	85	6.35 (4.23, 10.019)	4 (2–8.331)
No	218	57
Delivered in health center
Yes	191	127	3.94 (2, 7.388)	4.7 (1.799–12.250)
No	77	13
Household food insecurity status
Food secured	50	72	4.6 (2.938, 7.254)	2.4 (1.245–4.620)
Food insecure	218	68	1	1
Meal frequency
Below 3 meals	66	5	1	1
3 meals	190	71	4.9 (1.909, 12.743)	2.5 (0.746–8.458)
>3 meals	15	61	70.4 (23.470, 211.170)	11.12 (2.735–45.243)

Adequate dietary diversity includes both medium and high dietary diversity categories; inadequate dietary diversity includes low dietary diversity.