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

• Lagerkvist, Carl-Johan

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
SDG4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all


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