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 5
The result of bivariate and multivariable logistic regression to assess the association of adequate dietary diversity feeding practice and child health and maternal health-service utilization related factors among 6–23-month children in Birbir Town, Ethiopia, 2018.
Variable
Dietary diversity
COR (95% CI)
AOR (95% CI)
Adequate
Inadequate
N (%)
N (%)
Age of child
6–11 months
12 (9.1)
120 (90.9)
1
1
≥12 months
30 (14.9)
172 (85.1)
1.74 (0.85, 3.54)
0.74 (0.34, 1.63)
Sex of child
Male
22 (12.0)
162 (88.0)
0.88 (0.46, 1.68)
Female
20 (13.3)
130 (86.7)
1
Breastfeeding
Yes
36 (11.4)
281 (88.6)
1
1
No
6 (35.3)
11 (64.7)
4.26 (1.48, 12.21)
2.98 (0.85, 10.45)
Morbidity for the last two weeks
Yes
10 (11.1)
80 (88.9)
0.83 (0.38, 1.76)
No
32 (13.1)
212 (86.9)
1
Child growth monitoring follow-up
Yes
36 (13.7)
226 (86.3)
1.75 (0.71, 4.34)
1.95 (0.59, 6.45)
No
6 (8.3)
66 (91.7)
1
ANC visits
≤3 visits
4 (6.1)
62 (93.9)
1
1
4 and above visits
38 (14.2)
230 (85.8)
2.56 (0.88, 7.45)
1.95 (0.59, 6.45)
PNC visits
Yes
34 (14.8)
196 (85.2)
2.08 (0.93, 4.67)
2.18 (0.69, 6.87)
No
8 (7.7)
96 (92.3)
1
1
Place of delivery index child
Health facility
38 (12.6)
264 (87.4)
1.01 (0.34, 3.03)
Other
4 (12.5)
28 (87.5)
1
Heard when to start complementary food
Yes
38 (12.4)
268 (87.6)
0.85 (0.28, 2.58)
No
4 (14.3)
24 (85.7)
1
Influence on child feeding
Yes
4 (15.4)
22 (84.6)
1.29 (0.42, 3.95)
No
38 (12.3)
270 (87.7)
1
Note: significant at value ≤0.25; significant at value <0.05; COR: crude odds ratio; AOR: adjusted odds ratio.
