Measuring coverage of infant and young child feeding counselling interventions: A framework and empirical considerations for survey question design.

ABSTRACT: Most countries implement nutrition counselling interventions as part of programmes to support breastfeeding and complementary feeding. However, data to track coverage of counselling interventions are rarely available. As a result, little is known about the coverage of counselling on infant and young child feeding (IYCF). Survey-based data collection systems generally collect data on IYCF practices but do not collect data on coverage of interventions to support IYCF, and those surveys that do collect this information do not do so consistently. We present a framework to guide the design of survey questions to measure IYCF counselling coverage. We provide examples of how large-scale surveys for programme evaluation and national monitoring have included survey questions to address these data g

SUBMITTER: Choufani J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7507318 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature