Lagerkvist, Carl-Johan
- Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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
SLU Authors
Global goals (SDG)
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