Prevalence and Factors Associated with Child Feeding Practice Among Mothers of Woldia Town, Northeast Ethiopia

Figures & data

Figure 1 The schematic presentation of sampling procedure in assessing complementary feeding practice among mothers who had children aged 6 to 24 months old in Woldia town.

Table 1 Sociodemographic, Obstetric and Health-related Status of Mothers and Children in Woldia Town, Northeast Ethiopia

Variables	Categories	Frequency (n=415)	Percentage
Mothers’ age	<20	23	5.5
	20–24	81	19.5
	25–29	114	27.5
	30–34	106	25.5
	≥35	91	21.9
Marital status	Married	354	85.3
	Single	38	9.2
	Divorced	17	4.1
	Widowed	6	1.4
Mothers’ educational status	Cannot read and write	74	17.8
	Can write and read	87	21.0
	1 year education	68	16.4
	2 year education	105	25.3
	College and above	81	19.5
Fathers’ educational status	Cannot read and write	117	28.2
	Can write and read	140	33.7
	1 year education	52	12.5
	2 year education	54	13
	College and above	52	12.5
Mothers’ occupation	Housewife	130	31.3
	Private employed	78	18.8
	Government employed	180	43.4
	Daily laborer	13	3.1
	Student	14	3.4
Monthly income (Ethiopean birr)	≤999	198	47.7
	1000–2999	118	28.4
	3000–3999	30	7.2
	≥4000	69	16.6
Child’s age in month	6–11	133	32.0
	12–17	116	28.0
	18–24	166	40.0
Sex of child	Male	173	41.7
	Female	242	58.3
Parity	1–3	365	88.0
	4–6	50	12.0
Number of family members live in the same house	2–4	290	69.9
	5–9	125	30.1
ANC follow-up	Yes	402	96.9
	No	13	3.1
How many visits did you have	One	3	0.7
	Two	13	3.1
	Three	62	14.9
	Four	225	54.2
	Above	99	23.9
Advice from professions	Yes	350	87.1
	No	52	12.9
Place of delivery	Home	30	7.2
	Health institution	385	92.8
Postnatal care	Yes	354	85.3
	No	61	14.7

Figure 2 Time to start complementary feeding among mothers who had children aged 6 to 24 months old in Woldia town, Northeast Ethiopia.

Figure 3 The type of foods given to children aged 6 to 24 months old in the past 24 h in Woldia town, Northeast Ethiopia.

Table 2 The Bivariable and Multivariable Logistic Regression Analyses in Assessing the Associations Among Mothers in Woldia Town, Northeast Ethiopia

Variables	Categories	Complementary Feeding Practice		COR	95%CI		AOR	95%CI		P-value
		Goodn (%)	Poorn (%)		Lower	Upper		Upper	Lower
Mothers age	<20	14 (46.7)	16 (53.3)	0.44	0.17	1.12	6.65	2.38	0.84	0.10
	20–24	51 (51.0)	49 (49.0)	0.60	0.33	1.11	3.13	1.43	0.65	0.37
	25–29	56 (49.1)	58 (50.9)	0.71	0.40	1.24	3.54	1.61	0.74	0.23
	30–34	56 (55.4)	45 (44.6)	0.61	0.34	1.08	2.47	0.52	0.13	0.76
	235	29 (41.4)	41 (58.6)	1	–	–	–	1	–	–
Marital status	Married	169 (47.7)	185 (52.0)	1	–	–	–	1	–	–
	Single	24 (63.2)	14 (36.8)	5.47	0.63	47.33	1.45	0.68	0.32	0.31
	Divorced	8 (47.1)	9 (52.9)	2.91	0.30	27.56	2.41	0.83	0.28	0.73
	Widowed	5 (83.3)	1 (16.7)	0.63	0.53	58.91	2.48	0.26	0.02	0.24
Mothers educational status	Cannot read and write	27 (36.5)	47 (63.5)	1.08	0.56	2.07	1.81	0.90	0.45	0.77
	Can write andread	45 (51.7)	42 (48.3)	0.58	0.31	1.07	1.12	0.59	0.31	0.11
	1 year education	42 (61.8)	26 (38.2)	0.38	0.19	0.75	0.75	0.37	0.18	0.01^*
	2 years education	61 (58.1)	44 (41.0)	0.45	0.25	0.81	0.76	0.46	0.22	0.01^*
	College and above	31 (38.3)	50 (61.7%)	1	–	–	–	1	–	–
Mothers occupation	Housewife	67 (51.5)	63 (48.0%	1	–	–	–	1	–	–
	Private employed	37 (47.4)	41 (52.0)	1.11	0.63	1.95	2.66	1.44	0.78	0.24
	Government employed	86 (47.8)	94 (52.0)	1.42	0.91	2.24	1.93	1.18	0.71	0.52
	Daily laborer	10 (76.9)	3 (23.1)	0.52	1.15	1.77	1.37	0.32	0.08	0.12
	Student	6 (42.9)	8 (57.1)	1.56	0.51	4.74	5.39	1.65	0.50	0.41
Number of children	1–3	187 (53.7)	161 (46.0)	1	–	–	–	1	–	–
	4–6	19 (28.4)	48 (71.6)	1.71	0.93	3.13	7.83	3.50	1.57	0.00^*
Number of family members	2–4	156 (53.8)	134 (46.2%)	1	–	–	–	1	–	0.60
	5–9	50 (40.0)	75 (60.0)	1.75	1.1	2.67	2.0	1.16	0.67
ANC follow-up	Yes	204 (50.7)	198 (49.3)	12.86	1.66	99.88	1.28	0.26	0.05	1.10
	No	2 (15.4)	11 (84.6)	1	–	–	–	1	–
Place of delivery	Health institution	184 (47.8)	201 (52.0)	0. 33	0.15	0.77	8.07	3.24	1.34	0.01^*
	Home	22 (73.3)	8 (26.7)	1	–	1	–	–	–
Postnatal care	Yes	177 (50.0)	177 (50)	1.99	0.98	1.13	1.81	1.01	0.56	0.98
	No	29 (47.5)	32 (52.5)	1	–	–	–	1	–

Note:

* P<0.05.