1. The association between dietary diversity and development among children under 24 months in rural Uganda: analysis of a cluster-randomised maternal education trial.
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Kakwangire, Paul, Moss, Cami, Matovu, Nicholas, Atukunda, Prudence, Westerberg, Ane C, Iversen, Per O, Muhoozi, Grace, and Iversen, Per Ole
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CHILD development , *FINE motor ability , *MOTOR ability , *SECONDARY analysis , *CAREGIVER education , *GROSS motor ability , *RESEARCH , *RESEARCH methodology , *DIET , *MEDICAL cooperation , *EVALUATION research , *COMPARATIVE studies , *RANDOMIZED controlled trials , *EDUCATIONAL attainment , *RURAL population - Abstract
Objective: To assess the association between dietary diversity and development among children under 24 months in rural Uganda and to establish other factors that could be associated with development among these children.Design: A secondary data analysis of a cluster-randomised controlled maternal education trial (n 511) was conducted on a sub-sample of 385 children. We used adjusted ORs (AORs) to assess the associations of dietary diversity scores (DDS) and other baseline factors assessed at 6-8 months with child development domains (communication, fine motor, gross motor, personal-social and problem solving) at 20-24 months of age.Setting: Rural areas in Kabale and Kisoro districts of south-western Uganda.Participants: Children under 24 months.Results: After multivariable analysis, DDS at 6-8 months were positively associated with normal fine motor skills development at 20-24 months (AOR = 1·18; 95 % CI 1·01, 1·37; P = 0·02). No significant association was found between DDS and other development domains. Children who were not ill at 6-8 months had higher odds of developing normal communication (AOR = 1·73; 95 % CI 1·08, 2·77) and gross motor (AOR = 1·91; 95 % CI 1·09, 3·36) skills than sick children. Girls had lower odds of developing normal gross motor skills compared with boys (AOR = 0·58; 95 % CI 0·33, 0·98). Maternal/caregiver nutritional education intervention was positively associated with development of gross motor, fine motor and problem-solving skills (P-values < 0·05).Conclusions: We found an association between child DDS at 6-8 months and improvement in fine motor skills development at 20-24 months. Child illness status, maternal/caregiver nutritional education intervention and sex were other significant baseline predictors of child development at 20-24 months. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2021
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