Skip to main content
SLU publication database (SLUpub)

Research article2018Peer reviewedOpen access

Effect of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on child feeding practices: findings of a field experiment with biofortified foods and different women categories

Mutiso, Janet Mwende; Okello, Julius Juma; Lagerkvist, Carl Johan; Muoki, Penina; Kosura, Willis Oluoch; Heck, Simon

Abstract

Despite the efforts to promote good practices in infant and young child feeding (IYCF), the adoption of such practices has been low. Using data from a sample of 665 women, and the theory of planned behavior, we examine the effect of different types of nutrition education and psychosocial factors on the use of recommended IYCF practices. Regression results show that nutrition education and psychosocial factors have strong positive effect on the extent to which IYCF practices are used, with the latter having conflicting individual but overall positive effect. Moreover, coefficients of latter were mostly less than those of the former indicating that pschosocial factors were less important in explaining variability in usage of IYCF than the nutrition education variables. It further finds that different sets of nutrition education and psychosocial factors affect different categories of women, with interactive nutrition education approaches having a greater effect. The findings also suggest need for targeting of beneficiaries with multiple nutrition education approaches.

Keywords

Child feeding practices; Kenya; nutrition education; orange-fleshed sweetpotato; Poisson regression model; psychosocial factors

Published in

Ecology of Food and Nutrition
2018, Volume: 57, number: 4, pages: 346-371 Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

    Sustainable Development Goals

    SDG4 Quality education
    SDG5 Gender equality

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Nutrition and Dietetics

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2018.1492382

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/96232