Dietary Diversity Feeding Practice and Its Associated Factors among Infants and Young Children Aged between 6 and 23 Months in Birbir Town, Southern Ethiopia
Table 4
The result of bivariate and multivariable logistic regression to assess the association of adequate dietary diversity feeding practice and sociodemographic, economic, and household factors among 6–23-month children in Birbir Town, Ethiopia, 2018, (n = 334).
Variable
Dietary diversity
COR (95% CI)
AOR (95% CI)
Adequate
Inadequate
N (%)
N (%)
Age of the mothers/caregivers (years)
≤24
20 (12.3)
143 (87.7)
1
25–30
14 (11.8)
105 (88.2)
0.95 (0.46, 1.97)
≥31
8 (15.4)
44 (84.6)
1.30 (0.54, 3.16)
Educational status of mothers/caregivers
No formal education
14 (18.9)
60 (81.1)
1
1
Primary
10 (7.5)
124 (92.5)
0.35 (0.15, 0.82)
0.30 (0.12, 0.81)
Secondary
16 (18.6)
70 (81.4)
0.98 (0.44, 2.17)
0.85 (0.35, 2.06)
College and above
2 (5.0)
38 (95.0)
0.23 (0.05, 1.05)
0.23 (0.05, 1.16)
Marital status at the time of the survey
Married
38 (12.0)
278 (88.0)
0.48 (0.12, 1.88)
0.46 (0.12, 1.83)
Other
4 (22.2)
14 (77.8)
1
Monthly income (in birr)
≤3000
36 (12.7)
248 (87.8)
1
>3000
6 (12.0)
44 (88.0)
0.94 (0.37, 2.36)
Family size
≤3
8 (7.7)
96 (92.3)
0.51 (0.16, 1.58)
0.85 (0.24, 2.99)
4–6
28 (15.3)
159 (85.0)
1.08 (0.42, 2.81)
1.14 (0.39, 3.24)
≥7
6 (14.0)
37 (86.0)
1
1
Read newspaper
Yes
34 (12.0)
250 (88.0)
0.71 (0.31, 1.64)
No
8 (16.0)
42 (84.0)
1
Listen to radio
Yes
24 (12.0)
176 (88.0)
0.88 (0.45, 1.69)
No
18 (13.4)
116 (86.6)
1
Watch TV
Yes
28 (11.5)
216 (88.5)
0.70 (0.35, 1.41)
No
14 (15.6)
76 (84.4)
1
A household with backyard gardening
Yes
18 (19.6)
74 (80.4)
2.21 (1.14, 4.23)
2.34 (1.11, 5.10)
No
24 (9.9)
218 (90.1)
1
1
A place to obtain food
Own production
34 (14.0)
208 (86.0)
1.72 (0.76, 3.86)
0.87 (0.23, 3.24)
Purchased
8 (8.7)
84 (91.3)
1
1
Head of household
Male
40 (12.7)
274 (87.3)
1.31 (0.29, 5.87)
Female
2 (10.0)
18 (90.0)
1
Significant at value ≤0.25; significant at value <0.05; COR: crude odds ratio; AOR: adjusted odds ratio, Birr: Ethiopia’s official currency.
