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Predictors of the diets consumed by adolescent girls, pregnant women and mothers with children under age two years in rural eastern India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2020

Sayeed Unisa ,
Abhishek Saraswat Open the ORCID record for Abhishek Saraswat [Opens in a new window] ,
Arti Bhanot ,
Abdul Jaleel ,
Rabi N. Parhi ,
Sourav Bhattacharjee ,
Apollo Purty ,
Sudhira Rath ,
Babita Mohapatra  and
Avinash Lumba
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Sayeed Unisa
Affiliation:
International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India
Abhishek Saraswat
Affiliation:
International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India
Arti Bhanot
Affiliation:
Independent Consultant, New Delhi, India
Abdul Jaleel
Affiliation:
NCEARD, Lady Irwin College, New Delhi, India
Rabi N. Parhi
Affiliation:
Field Office, UNICEF, Patna, Bihar, India
Sourav Bhattacharjee
Affiliation:
Field Office, UNICEF, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Apollo Purty
Affiliation:
Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society, Bihar, India
Sudhira Rath
Affiliation:
Odisha Livelihoods Mission, Odisha, India
Babita Mohapatra
Affiliation:
Odisha Livelihoods Mission, Odisha, India
Avinash Lumba
Affiliation:
Field Office, UNICEF, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
Sonali Sinha
Affiliation:
Field Office, UNICEF, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Nita Kejrewal
Affiliation:
Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana, National Rural Livelihoods Mission, India
Neeraj Agrawal
Affiliation:
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Patna, Bihar, India
Vikas Bhatia
Affiliation:
AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Manisha Ruikar
Affiliation:
AIIMS, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
Vani Sethi*
Affiliation:
Country Office, UNICEF, New Delhi, India
*
*Corresponding author. Email: vsethi@unicef.org
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Abstract

Adolescents, pregnant women and mothers of children under 2 years of age are in stages of life characterized by higher nutritional demands. The study measured the dietary diversity of 17,680 adolescent girls, pregnant women and mothers of children under age 2 years in the eastern Indian states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Odisha using data from the Swabhimaan baseline survey conducted in 2016. The association of women’s mean Dietary Diversity Scores with socioeconomic, health and nutrition service indicators was assessed. The sampled population was socioeconomically more vulnerable than the average Indian population. There was not much variation in the types of foods consumed daily across target groups, with diet being predominantly cereal (98%) and vegetable (83%) based. Nearly 30% of the mothers had low Dietary Diversity Scores, compared with 25% of pregnant women and 24% of adolescent girls. In each target group, more than half of the respondents were unable to meet the Minimum Dietary Diversity score of at least five of ten food groups consumed daily. Irrespective of their background characteristics, mean Dietary Diversity Scores were significantly lower in Bihar than in Chhattisgarh and Odisha for all target groups. Having at least 6 years of education, belonging to a relatively rich household and possessing a ration card predicted mean dietary diversity. Project interventions of participatory women’s group meetings improved mean Dietary Diversity Scores for mothers and adolescent girls. Considering the association between poverty and dietary diversity, the linkage between girls and women and nutrition-focused livelihoods and supplementary nutrition programmes needs to be tested.

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DietWomenIndia
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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 53 , Issue 5 , September 2021 , pp. 663 - 682
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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