Dietary intake and processes of behaviour change in a nutrition education intervention for pregnant women in rural Malawi: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine if increased intake of locally available nutrient-dense foods among pregnant women improved the quality of their dietary intake and if use of the Theory of Planned Behaviour could explain changes in their dietary behaviour.

Design

We used data from a randomised controlled trial where the intervention group received nutrition education and dietary counselling. We promoted the use of recipes that utilised powders to enhance dietary diversity. We examined how the intervention achieved changes in dietary intakes and used mixed effects logistic regression models with random effects at village level to explore changes over time of the outcomes, adjusted for selected explanatory variables.

Setting

The study was conducted in twenty villages in rural Malaw

SUBMITTER: Ziyenda Katenga-Kaunda L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7426887 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature