Adolescent mothers’ anthropometrics and grandmothers’ schooling predict infant anthropometrics in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

Schott, Whitney; Aurino, Elisabetta; Penny, Mary E.; Behrman, Jere R.

doi:10.1111/nyas.13455

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“…Dietary diversity was studied as a determinant factor of malnutrition previously in adolescents. But not the factors that influence dietary diversity was not well explored [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. Furthermore, the dietary diversity of adolescents was not included and studied in Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey consecutive reports [38][39][40].…”

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Factors associated with dietary diversity among adolescents in Woldia, Northeast Ethiopia

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Background Consuming diversified food during the adolescent period is essential to build a healthy and active mind for their later life. Food prices increased in the local market due to fewer production of crops. Thus, exploring the dietary diversity of adolescents in this area is crucial to estimate diet quality. So the aim of the study was to identify determinant factors of dietary diversity. Methods An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among adolescent students in Woldia town. A total of four hundred eleven students were included in the study. A simple random sampling technique was used to select the participants. The outcome variable was dietary diversity; it was calculated by summing of the number of food group consumed by individuals in the given reference period. Bivariable and multivariable logistic analysis was done. The odds ratio with a 95% confidence interval was computed to measure an association. A variable with a P-value less than 0.05 is considered a significant factor. Results The proportion of inadequate dietary diversity was 49.1% (95% CI 44.5–53.8). Being female (AOR =5.53, 95% CI 3.447–8.859), secondary and above mothers’ education level (AOR=0. 27, 95%CI 0.153–0.477), living in a family size five and above (AOR= 2.09, 95CI% 1.31–3.34), and poor knowledge about nutrition (AOR=4.56, 95% CI 2.727–7.639) were significantly associated with inadequate dietary diversity. Conclusions and recommendations Inadequate dietary diversity was associated with sex, knowledge of nutrition, maternal education level, and family size. It is better to design a nutrition intervention program that focus on nutrition education to scale up diversified food consumption among adolescents.

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Factors associated with dietary diversity among adolescents in Woldia, Northeast Ethiopia

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“…Adolescence is a distinct phase of the life course, characterized by significant physical and brain maturation and rapid development of skills related to social engagement and emotional control. The interaction of these biological processes with surrounding economic and social environments shapes human development outcomes, with lasting effects on the life course and potential repercussions on the next generation (Patton et al 2016;Schott et al 2017). In 2015, the estimated global population of adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years was 1.2 billion, accounting for about 16% of total world population.…”

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Nutritional Status from 1 to 15 Years and Adolescent Learning for Boys and Girls in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

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Schott

Behrman

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There has been little examination of: (1) associations of early-life nutrition and adolescent cognitive skills, (2) if they vary by gender, (3) if they differ by diverse contexts, and (4) contributions of post-infancy growth to adolescent cognitive attainment. We use Young Lives data on 7687 children from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam to undertake ordinary least squares estimates of associations between age-1 height-forage z-score (HAZ) and age-15 cognitive outcomes (math, reading, vocabulary), controlling for child and household factors. Age-1 HAZ is positively associated with cognitive scores in all countries. Child gender-specific estimates for these coefficients either do not differ (math, reading) or favor girls (vocabulary). Augmenting models to include growth in HAZ between ages 1 and 15 years that was not predicted by HAZ at age 1 reveals that such improvements are associated with higher cognitive scores, but that sex-specific coefficients for this predictor favor boys in India and Peru. The results suggest that nutritional indicators at age 1 have gender-neutral associations with math and reading and favor girls for vocabulary achievement at age 15, but unpredicted improvements in HAZ by adolescence are associated with higher cognitive scores for boys than for girls. This evidence enriches our understanding of relationships between children's nutritional trajectories during childhood and adolescent cognitive development, and how these associations vary by gender in some contexts to the possible disadvantage of girls.

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“…Grandparents can also be important for child development, and their influence could occur through the same mechanisms identified for fathers. For example, grandparents can reduce economic hardship for grandchildren in single-mother-headed families (Mutchler and Baker 2009) and grandmother schooling has been associated with the health of infants of adolescent mothers (Schott et al 2017). In South Africa and Brazil, analyses of natural experiments indicate grandparent pensions benefit coresident grandchildren (Duflo 2003; Ponczek 2011).…”

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Family structure and child development in Chile: A longitudinal analysis of household transitions involving fathers and grandparents

Reynolds¹,

Fernald²,

Deardorff³

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BACKGROUND Adults support child development economically, socially, and emotionally. Household transitions may disrupt these support structures, impacting child development. OBJECTIVE We document the large portion of children in Chile that experience biological-father and grandparent household transitions, and test if these transitions are associated with child vocabulary and behavior and if income could be a mechanism behind our findings. METHODS We apply first-differences and lagged-dependent-variable analyses to a large, nationally representative, longitudinal survey of over 5,000 Chilean children. RESULTS We find that children whose mothers separated from their parents’ homes within the two years between two survey rounds have worse age-normalized Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test scores than children in households without such transitions. Changes in income per capita do not explain these associations. When fathers enter households between the two survey rounds there is a gain in income per capita but no association between father entrance and child’s vocabulary score. Similarly, there is no significant association between fathers separating from the household and child vocabulary, though father departure is associated with lower income per capita. We find no association between household transitions and Child Behavioral Checklist (CBCL) scores. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide evidence that Chilean grandparents promote language development when coresiding with their grandchildren and that Chilean fathers are an important source of household income. CONTRIBUTION Our study examines fathers and grandparents simultaneously. We are able to take the directionality (i.e., movement in or out of the home) of biological father transitions into account.

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Adolescent mothers’ anthropometrics and grandmothers’ schooling predict infant anthropometrics in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

Cited by 11 publications

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Factors associated with dietary diversity among adolescents in Woldia, Northeast Ethiopia

Factors associated with dietary diversity among adolescents in Woldia, Northeast Ethiopia

Nutritional Status from 1 to 15 Years and Adolescent Learning for Boys and Girls in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

Family structure and child development in Chile: A longitudinal analysis of household transitions involving fathers and grandparents

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