Child Undernutrition And Infant And Young Child Feeding Indicators A Secondary Analysis Of Edhs 2011

Background: - Optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices play an importantrnrole in reducing early childhood morbidity and mortality, as well as in improving early childrngrowth and development. There are different predictors of child nutritional outcomes likerneconomic and contextual factors. But infant nutritional status (stunting, wasting andrnunderweight) can be associated with an immediate cause such as infant feeding practice.rnObjectives: To determine the association between WHO core IYCF indicator and differentrnforms of child under nutrition in Ethiopia.rnMethods: Data from the 2011 Ethiopia Demographic Health Surveys (EDHS), which isrnnationally representative data, were used. The study subjects were Last born infants and theirrnmothers.Analyses were conducted using multiple linear regression and logisticregressionrnanalyses adjusted for the complex survey design of the survey, controllingfor child, maternal andrnhousehold characteristics.Regression models used the ‘svy’ command in STATA to ensure thatrnstandard errors &adjusted for the complex survey design.rnResult: A total of 3826 children are included in the analysis. After adjusting for possiblernconfounders minimum acceptable diet (AOR 0.39, 95%CI 0.18-0.84) & minimum diet diversityrnwith (AOR 0.48 95% 0.24-0.96) was found to be significantly associated with stunting. Similarlyrnminimum acceptable diet (AOR 0.36, 95%CI 0.13-0.98) & minimum diet diversity (0.33 95%CIrn(0.12-0.87) was found to be significantly associated with underweight. Among the IYCFrnindicators only minimum meal frequency (AOR 0.70, 95% 0.51-0.96) was found to bernsignificantly associated with wasting.But exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) had no association withrnunderweight.rnConclusion & Recommendation: Achieving Minimum acceptable diet and minimum dietrndiversity are protective against stunting and underweight. And minimum meal frequency wasrnstill protective against wasting. Programmatic interventions that support a focus onrncomplementary feeding and EBF should be implemented.

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