Poor maternal schooling is the main constraint to good child care practices in Accra

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dc.contributor.authorArmar-Klemesu, M.
dc.contributor.authorRuel, M.T.
dc.contributor.authorMaxwell, D.G.
dc.contributor.authorLevin, C.E.
dc.contributor.authorMorris, S.S.
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T13:20:00Z
dc.date.available2019-02-21T13:20:00Z
dc.date.issued2000-06
dc.description.abstractLife in urban areas presents special challenges for maternal child care practices. Data from a representative quantitative survey of households with children < 3 y of age in Accra, Ghana were used to test a number of hypothesized constraints to child care including various maternal (anthropometry, education, employment, marital status, age and ethnic group) and household-level factors (income, availability of food, quality of housing and asset ownership, availability of services, household size and crowding). Three care indices were created as follows: 1) a child feeding index; 2) a preventive health seeking index; and 3) a hygiene index. The first two indices were based on data from maternal recall; the hygiene index was based on spot-check observations of proxies of hygiene behaviors. Multivariate analyses (ordinary least-squares regression for the child feeding index and ordered probit for the two other indices) showed that maternal schooling was the most consistent constraint to all three categories of child care practices. None of the household-level characteristics were associated with child feeding practices, but household socioeconomic factors were associated with better preventive health seeking and hygiene behaviors. Thus, poor maternal schooling was a main constraint for child feeding, health seeking and hygiene practices in Accra, but the lack of household resources was a constraint only for health seeking and hygiene. The programmatic implications of these findings for interventions in nutrition education and behaviors in Accra are discussed.en_US
dc.identifier.otherVolume 130, Issue 6,Pages 1597–1607
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1093/jn/130.6.1597
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/28087
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Nutritionen_US
dc.subjectChild care practicesen_US
dc.subjectChild feeding practicesen_US
dc.subjectFemale education urban nutritionen_US
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.subjectHygieneen_US
dc.titlePoor maternal schooling is the main constraint to good child care practices in Accraen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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