Complementary Feeding Practices and Household Food Insecurity Status of Children Aged 6–23 Months in Shashemene City West Arsi Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia

Table 6

Multivariate association of food security status with CF indicators of children aged 6–23 months in Shashemene city, Oromia, Ethiopia, 2020.

Background characteristics	MMF			MDD			MAD			Introduction of CF
	AOR (95% CI)		Pv	AOR (95% CI)		Pv	AOR (95% CI)		Pv	AOR (95% CI)		Pv
Characteristics of children
Sex
M	0.91	0.64–1.30	0.61	0.81	0.57–1.16	0.26	0.87	0.61–1.23	0.44	1.05	0.73–1.54	0.78
F	1			1			1
Child age (months)
6–8	1			1			1			1
9–11	3.89	1.46–10.37	0.007	2.21	1.12–4.37	0.02	1.94	0.98–3.85	0.05	4.11	1.57–10.73	0.004
12–17	11.34	4.87–26.39	≤0.001	1.43	0.82–2.48	0.19	1.42	0.83–2.46	0.20	11.18	4.88–25.61	≤0.001
18–23	5.64	2.35–13.51	≤0.001	2.31	1.3–4.08	004	2.18	1.24–3.87	0.007	5.89	2.49–13.93	≤0.001
Characteristics of mothers
Age (yrs)
≤24	0.60	0.29–1.43	0.28	0.91	0.43–1.91	0.81	0.86	0.41–1.81	0.69	5.63	1.89–16.76	0.002
25–29	0.68	0.28–1.32	0.21	0.92	0.45–1.87	0.82	0.90	0.44–1.84	0.78	4.45	1.56–12.68	0.005
30–34	1.07	0.39–2.14	0.84	1.52	0.70–3.29	0.28	1.47	0.68–3.18	0.32	2.46	0.80–7.53	0.11
35+	1			1			1			1
Mothers’ education
No formal education	1			1			1			1
Primary school	1.02	0.62–1.66	0.93	1.17	0.73–1.8	0.49	1.05	0.63–1.77	0.82	1.3	0.80–2.21	0.72
2 yr and above	0.91	0.53–1.54	0.72	0.92	0.55–1.53	0.73	1.24	0.80–1.91	0.32	1.0	0.62–1.88	0.78
Mother’s employment
Homemakers	1			1			1			1
Unskilled worker	1.65	0.91–3.01	0.09	0.84	0.47–1.50	0.57	0.82	0.46–1.48	0.52	0.88	0.47–1.66	0.70
Skilled workers	1.23	0.67–2.4	0.49	1.04	0.57–1.87	0.21	0.96	0.53–1.72	0.89	1.13	0.60–2.13	0.69
Household characteristics
Household’s monthly expenditure on food
≤3999	1			1			1			1
≥4000	1.72	1.16–2.53	0.006	2.29	1.58–3.33	≤0.001	2.25	1.55–3.25	≤0.001	0.91	0.61–1.37	0.67
Households food security status
Secure	2.02	1.25–3.24	0.004	1.55	1.02–2.36	0.04	1.62	1.06–2.47	0.02	0.87	0.55–1.39	0.58
Insecure	1			1			1			1
Wealth quintile
Lowest	1			1			1			1
Second	1.00	0.29–3.42	0.99	0.45	0.12–1.79	0.26	0.46	0.12–1.82	0.27	0.64	0.18–2.21	0.48
Middle	1.68	0.53–5.31	0.37	1.23	0.36–4.20	0.74	1.22	0.35–4.18	0.75	0.44	0.14–1.39	0.16
Fourth	1.71	0.53–5.48	0.36	1.89	0.55–6.56	0.31	1.78	0.51–6.16	0.36	0.46	0.14–1.48	0.19
Highest	6.54	1.84–23.3	0.04	3.70	1.03–13.36	0.46	3.80	1.05–13.73	0.04	0.37	0.10–1.25	0.11