Income Level but Not Nutrition Knowledge Is Associated with Dietary Diversity of Rural Pregnant Women from Northern Ghana

Table 5

Linear regression of determinants of women dietary diversity among pregnant women.

Variable	B	SE	95% CI	Partial correlation	value
Age	−0.03	0.03	−0.08–0.03	−0.09	0.343
Employed	0.02	0.56	−1.09–1.12	0.00	0.975
Married	−0.48	0.28	−1.02–0.07	−0.16	0.895
Parity	0.15	0.18	−0.21–0.50	0.06	0.410
High level of education	0.25	0.30	−0.35–0.85	0.08	0.412
Earning ≥ GHC 500 (US$ 86)	1.82	0.46	0.90–2.73	0.35	<0.001
Household size	0.06	0.09	−0.13–0.24	0.06	0.552
Number of antenatal care visits	0.07	0.01	−0.13–0.26	0.06	0.494
Gestation	−0.04	0.08	−0.21–0.13	−0.04	0.663
Knowledge	0.08	0.09	−0.10–0.26	0.08	0.382
Attitude	−0.01	0.08	−0.17–0.15	−0.02	0.870
Food taboos	−0.62	0.68	−1.97–0.74	−0.08	0.369
Food cravings	−0.44	0.23	−0.89–0.21	−0.17	0.061
Out-of-home eating	0.33	0.22	−0.11–0.78	0.14	0.139

Adjusted R² = 0.33; F = 5.58.