Socio-economic patterning of food consumption and dietary diversity among Indian children: evidence from NFHS-4

Background/Objectives Most interventions to foster child growth and development in India focus on improving food quality and quantity. We aimed to assess the pattern in food consumption and dietary diversity by socioeconomic status (SES) among Indian children. Subjects/Methods The most recent nation...

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Vydáno v:European journal of clinical nutrition Ročník 73; číslo 10; s. 1361 - 1372
Hlavní autoři: Agrawal, Sutapa, Kim, Rockli, Gausman, Jewel, Sharma, Smriti, Sankar, Rajan, Joe, William, Subramanian, S. V.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.10.2019
Nature Publishing Group
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692/700/1538
692/700/2814
Children
Clinical Nutrition
Dairy products
Diet
Dietary intake
Education
Epidemiology
Food
Food consumption
Food groups
Food quality
Internal Medicine
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Metabolic Diseases
Parent educational background
Patterning
Public Health
Regression analysis
Regression models
Socioeconomics
India
ISSN:0954-3007, 1476-5640, 1476-5640
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Shrnutí:Background/Objectives Most interventions to foster child growth and development in India focus on improving food quality and quantity. We aimed to assess the pattern in food consumption and dietary diversity by socioeconomic status (SES) among Indian children. Subjects/Methods The most recent nationally representative, cross-sectional data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4, 2015–16) was used for analysis of 73,852–74,038 children aged 6–23 months. Consumption of 21 food items, seven food groups, and adequately diversified dietary intake (ADDI) was collected through mother’s 24-h dietary recall. Logistic regression models were conducted to assess the association between household wealth and maternal education with food consumption and ADDI, after controlling for covariates. Results Overall, the mean dietary diversity score was low (2.26; 95% CI:2.24–2.27) and the prevalence of ADDI was only 23%. Both household wealth and maternal education were significantly associated with ADDI (OR:1.28; 95% CI:1.18–1.38 and OR:1.75; 95% CI:1.63–1.90, respectively), but the SES gradient was not particularly strong. Furthermore, the associations between SES and consumption of individual food items and food groups were not consistent. Maternal education was more strongly associated with consumption of essential food items and all food groups, but household wealth was found to have significant influence on intake of dairy group only. Conclusions Interventions designed to improve food consumption and diversified dietary intake among Indian children need to be universal in their targeting given the overall high prevalence of inadequate dietary diversity and the relatively small differentials by SES.
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ISSN:0954-3007
1476-5640
1476-5640
DOI:10.1038/s41430-019-0406-0