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The problem
Intervention: Maternal food safety knowledge and hygiene practices
Who it was tested with: 550 mothers of children aged 6 months to 5 years in urban slums of Sambalpur, India.
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"A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 550 purposively selected mothers of children aged 6 months to 5 years in urban slums of Sambalpur. Data on cooking practices, nutrition knowledge, hygiene and sanitation were collected using structured tools, and children's nutritional status was assessed through anthropometry." The study examined relationships between maternal practices and child nutrition outcomes but found that food safety knowledge itself had minimal impact, making results inconclusive about the intervention's effectiveness.
Cross-sectional design cannot establish causality. Most mothers had poor to fair knowledge, limiting variation in the exposure variable. The study measured association but cannot determine whether knowledge improvement would change nutritional outcomes.
Across countries and designs
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