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The problem
Intervention: Analysis of current feeding practices (breastfeeding duration and complementary feeding patterns) and their association with nutritional outcomes
Who it was tested with: 103 children aged up to 2 years admitted to Beira Central Hospital in Mozambique.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"A retrospective study was conducted, including children admitted to Beira Central Hospital in Mozambique, using a questionnaire focusing on early nutritional and complementary feeding (CF) practices. We compared the clinical and feeding characteristics of M and NM children and conducted logistic regression to identify factors associated with chronic malnutrition." This describes an observational design comparing groups retrospectively without an experimental intervention, identifying risk and protective factors for malnutrition through statistical association rather than testing a specific intervention.
Retrospective design with potential recall bias; hospital-based sample may not represent community-dwelling children; small sample size limits statistical power; no intervention was tested, only associations between practices and outcomes were examined
Across countries and designs
2 studies · 2 countries
