Infant and child feeding index

Abstract

Traditional indicators of child feeding practices are widely used and appear to be useful, although the validity and reliability of those related to complementary feeding have not been established. Composite child feeding indices have the potential to address some of the methodological constraints related to the quantitative measurement of child feeding practices. They can address the multi-dimensionality of child feeding practices i.e. the need to consider the type, quality, texture, nutrient density of food, frequency of feeding and diversity of the diet; the age-specificity of child feeding practices; and the fact that feeding practices tend to cluster. The main advantage of creating a composite index is that it allows construction of one variable representing various dimensions of feeding or care practices. This variable, in turn, can be used to illustrate graphically the importance of child feeding or care for child outcomes or to model their determinants. This can be invaluable for advocacy, apart from being an indispensable tool for the purposes of research, monitoring and evaluation. Experience with creation of composite child feeding indices with the studies in Accra and DHS data sets from Latin America and Ethiopia has been encouraging and suggests that this is a promising area for future development and program applications.

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“…The results from the current findings were comparable with Mahmood et al (1997) who assessed the nutritional beliefs and practices in pregnant and lactating mothers in an urban and rural area of Pakistan. This study showed that complementary feeding practices are also not satisfactory and 46% of mothers not giving it to their babies with a fear of pneumonia, these results are similar with other studies (Shazia et al, 2010) and poor complementary feeding is a contributory factor increasing burden of malnutrition in age group between 6 months to 18 months (Srivastavan & Sandhu, 2006).…”

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“…But efforts to measure the quality of complementary feeding practices and to assess the strength of its association with child's nutritional status have been very limited due to methodological problems. This is because complementary feeding practices encompass a series of interrelated behaviors that must be considered simultaneously [5,6].…”

“…Integration of infant and child feeding index (ICFI) addresses the multidimensional nature of child feeding practices into one agespecific summary index [5]. This summary index (infant and child Early Human Development 90 (2014) 815-820 feeding index) could able to summarize and quantify the key complementary feeding practices into a composite single index to measure all complementary feeding dimensions simultaneously.…”