PMID- 36615816
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230110
LR  - 20230308
IS  - 2072-6643 (Electronic)
IS  - 2072-6643 (Linking)
VI  - 15
IP  - 1
DP  - 2022 Dec 29
TI  - Effects of Dietary Diversity on Growth Outcomes of Children Aged 6 to 23 Months 
      in India: Evidence from National Family and Health Survey.
LID - 10.3390/nu15010159 [doi]
LID - 159
AB  - Low dietary diversity significantly interplays with children's growth failure. 
      However, evidence of its crucial role in children's health remains inconclusive 
      in developing countries such as India. This study attempts to find the 
      association between dietary diversity and growth outcomes among children aged 
      between 6 and 23 months in India using the fourth round of the National Family 
      Health Survey (NFHS), 2015-2016. A total of 67,278 mother-child pairs of children 
      between the ages of 6-23 months and mothers aged 15-49 years were included in 
      this study. Pearson's chi-square significance test and multivariable logistic 
      regression were used to determine the association between dietary diversity and 
      child growth outcomes (stunted, wasted, and underweight). The study found that 
      the prevalence of stunting and severe stunting among children aged between 6 and 
      23 months were 35.9% and 16.2%; 23.8% and 8.5% represented wasting, and severe 
      wasting; and more than 32%, 10% were underweight and severely underweight 
      respectively. This present study found that having an inadequate minimum dietary 
      diversity (<4 food groups) significantly increases the risk of being stunted 
      (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 1.29; 95% confidence interval (CI); 1.21-1.38), 
      wasted (AOR = 1.29; 95% CI; 1.21-1.38), and underweight (AOR = 1.47; 95% CI; 
      1.39-1.56). Further, it was noted that children who did not intake dairy 
      products, eggs, and other fruits and vegetables were more likely to be stunted, 
      wasted, and underweight and more likely to be severely stunted, wasted, and 
      underweight. Therefore, additional nutrition-specific interventions are urgently 
      needed to strengthen and enhance existing feeding interventions aimed at 
      improving infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, including 
      complementary feeding practices among children aged between 6 and 23 months in 
      India. The Government should focus such interventions more on states or regions 
      where the prevalence of adequate minimum dietary diversity (MDD) and malnutrition 
      is high.
FAU - Saha, Jay
AU  - Saha J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5663-5046
AD  - Department of Geography, University of Gour Banga (UGB), Malda 732103, West 
      Bengal, India.
FAU - Chouhan, Pradip
AU  - Chouhan P
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5500-2842
AD  - Department of Geography, University of Gour Banga (UGB), Malda 732103, West 
      Bengal, India.
FAU - Malik, Najma Iqbal
AU  - Malik NI
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3521-1014
AD  - Department of Psychology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan.
FAU - Ghosh, Tanmoy
AU  - Ghosh T
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7101-4192
AD  - Department of Geography, University of Gour Banga (UGB), Malda 732103, West 
      Bengal, India.
FAU - Das, Puja
AU  - Das P
AD  - Department of Geography, University of Gour Banga (UGB), Malda 732103, West 
      Bengal, India.
FAU - Shahid, Muhammad
AU  - Shahid M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6506-1785
AD  - Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100029, China.
AD  - School of Insurance and Economics, University of International Business and 
      Economics (UIBE), Beijing 100029, China.
FAU - Ahmed, Farooq
AU  - Ahmed F
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4668-2882
AD  - Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100029, China.
AD  - Department of Anthropology, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Islamabad 44000, 
      Pakistan.
FAU - Tang, Kun
AU  - Tang K
AD  - Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100029, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221229
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Nutrients
JT  - Nutrients
JID - 101521595
SB  - IM
MH  - Infant
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - *Nutritional Status
MH  - Thinness/epidemiology
MH  - *Malnutrition/epidemiology
MH  - Growth Disorders/epidemiology
MH  - Cachexia
MH  - Eggs
MH  - India/epidemiology
MH  - Health Surveys
PMC - PMC9824371
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - India
OT  - NFHS
OT  - children
OT  - dietary diversity
OT  - minimum dietary diversity
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2023/01/09 06:00
MHDA- 2023/01/11 06:00
PMCR- 2022/12/29
CRDT- 2023/01/08 01:37
PHST- 2022/11/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/12/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/12/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/01/08 01:37 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/01/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/01/11 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/12/29 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - nu15010159 [pii]
AID - nutrients-15-00159 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/nu15010159 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Nutrients. 2022 Dec 29;15(1):159. doi: 10.3390/nu15010159.