Factors Associated with Timely Initiation of Complementary Feeding among Children Aged 6-23 Months in Ethiopia: A Multilevel Analysis of 2019 Ethiopian Mini Demographic Health Survey
Received Date: Aug 22, 2022 / Published Date: Jan 24, 2023
Abstract
Timely initiation of complementary feeding is providing the baby with solid or semisolid foods in addition to breast milk at 6-8 months of age. Due to many reasons, this feeding is extremely low in middle income and developing countries. In the current study, we aimed to identify factors contributing to the recent dataset of the Ethiopian demographic health survey. We used cross sectional EMDHS 2019 for this analysis. We cleaned the data and 4,061 women under under-two years of children were identified. We applied multilevel binary logistic regression in Stata v. 15. Model comparison was based on log-likelihood ratio, deviance and other criteria. Data were presented using mean, percent, 95% CI and Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR). The timely complementary feeding was 36.44% (34.93-37.92%). Factors like preceding birth intervals (AOR=1.97 95% CI: 1.62-1.39), primary education (AOR=2.26 95% CI: 1.40-3.62), secondary above education (AOR=1.62 95% CI: 1.10-2.38) and rich wealth index (AOR=1.25 95% CI: 1.03-1.52) were some of the associated factors. It is highly suggested that comprehensive intervention on maternal education, empowering mothers economically, equity access to health services and birth planning should be targeted because they are attributable to maternal education, wealth index, preceding birth interval, number of under five children and regional disparities throughout the country
Keywords: Complementary feeding, Multilevel, Children, Ethiopia
Citation: Gilano G, Sako S, Dileba T, Gilano K (2023) Factors Associated with Timely Initiation of Complementary Feeding among Children Aged 6-23 Months in Ethiopia: A Multilevel Analysis of 2019 Ethiopian Mini Demographic Health Survey. J Preg Child Health 10:579.
Copyright: © 2023 Gilano G, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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