Complementary feeding practices and associated factors of dietary diversity among uncomplicated severe acute malnourished children aged 6–23 months in Burkina Faso

Nutritional treatment of children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is based on ready‐to‐use therapeutic foods (RUTF). With treatment provided at community level, children could have access to other foods, and a reduction in the dose of RUTF could further increase dietary diversity during treatment. We assessed the dietary diversity score (DDS), the minimum dietary diversity (MDD), the minimum meal frequency (MMF) and the minimum acceptable diet (MAD) of 459 infants and young children aged 6–23 months being treated for SAM with different doses of RUTF. We also investigated the factors associated with DDS. Dietary intake was estimated using a single 24‐h multipass dietary recall, 1 month after starting treatment, from December 2016 to August 2018. The DDS was calculated on the basis of eight food groups. Differences between children receiving the reduced RUTF and the standard RUTF dose and factors associated with DDS were assessed by Poisson and logistic regression models. RUTF dose was not associated with DDS (4.07 ± 1.25 for reduced RUTF and 4.01 ± 1.26 for standard RUTF; P = 0.77). Food groups most consumed by children were grains, roots or tubers (96%) and legumes and nuts (72%). Eggs consumption was low (3%). DDS was positively associated with child's age, mother's education, household wealth index, urban residence and rainy season. The present findings show that children with SAM consumed a variety of foods during treatment in addition to the RUTF ration prescribed to them. Reducing the dose of RUTF during SAM treatment did not impact DDS

Biology · Dietary diversity · Environmental health · Food group · Food security · Logistic regression · Malnutrition · Meal · Poisson regression · Population · Residence · Severe Acute Malnutrition · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Internal Medicine

• Reduced rank regression-derived dietary patterns related to climate-sensitive micronutrients and their associations with child undernutrition among young children in rural Kenya

  Open Access•Grace Wothaya Kihagi, Adi Lukas Kurniawan et al.•BMC Public Health•2026

  Incluir item

• Availability, use, and consumption practices of ready-to-use therapeutic foods prescribed to children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition aged 6–59 months during outpatient treatment in Burkina Faso

  Open Access•Victor Nikièma, Nadia F Fogny et al.•Appetite•2022

  Incluir item

• Update on Technical issues concerning Complementary Feeding of Young Children in Developing Countries and Implications for Intervention Programs

  Open Access•Kathryn G Dewey, Kendall H Brown et al.•Food and Nutrition Bulletin•2003

  Incluir item

• Revisiting maternal and child undernutrition in low-income and middle-income countries

  Open Access•Cesar G Victora, Polly Christian et al.•The Lancet•2021

  Incluir item

• Worldwide Timing of Growth Faltering

  Cesar G Victora, Mercedes De Onís et al.•PEDIATRICS•2010

  Incluir item

• Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) for Measurement of Food Access: Indicator Guide: Version 3

  Jennifer Coates, Anne Swindale et al.•PsycEXTRA Dataset•2007

  Incluir item

• Fortified blended flour supplements displace plain cereals in feeding of young children

  Open Access•Ilana R Cliffer, William A Masters et al.•Maternal and Child Nutrition•2020

  Incluir item

• Factors associated with dietary diversity and length‐for‐age z ‐score in rural Ethiopian children aged 6–23 months

  Open Access•Desalegn Kuche, Cami Moss et al.•Maternal and Child Nutrition•2019

  Incluir item

• Determinants of suboptimal complementary feeding practices among children aged 6–23 months in seven francophone W est A frican countries

  Open Access•Abukari I Issaka, Kingsley E Agho et al.•Maternal and Child Nutrition•2015

  Incluir item

• Determinants of inappropriate complementary feeding practices in young children in Nepal

  Open Access•Nira Joshi, Kingsley E Agho et al.•Maternal and Child Nutrition•2011

  Incluir item

• Determinants of suboptimal complementary feeding practices among children aged 6–23 months in four anglophone W est A frican countries

  Open Access•Abukari I Issaka, Kingsley E Agho et al.•Maternal and Child Nutrition•2015

  Incluir item

• Determinants of inadequate complementary feeding practices among children aged 6–23 months in Ghana

  Open Access•Abukari I Issaka, Kingsley E Agho et al.•Public Health Nutrition•2015

  Incluir item

• Food consumption in rural Burkina Faso

  Anne Mette Lykke, Ole Mertz et al.•Ecology of Food and Nutrition•2002

  Incluir item

• Childhood stunting

  Open Access•Mercedes De Onís, Francesco Branca•Maternal and Child Nutrition•2016

  Incluir item