The association between exposure to a radio campaign on nutrition and mothers’ nutrition- and health-related attitudes and minimal acceptable diet of children 6–36 months old: a quasi-experimental trial
To evaluate the effectiveness of a radio campaign involving serial 10-minute drama episodes, 10-minute on air discussion of each episode by trained community health workers and 30-minute phone-ins from listeners in improving mothers' nutrition- and health-related attitudes (HNRAs) and children&...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Public health nutrition 2024-11, Vol.27 (1), p.e232, Article e232 |
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Zusammenfassung: | To evaluate the effectiveness of a radio campaign involving serial 10-minute drama episodes, 10-minute on air discussion of each episode by trained community health workers and 30-minute phone-ins from listeners in improving mothers' nutrition- and health-related attitudes (HNRAs) and children's minimum acceptable diet (MAD).
A two-arm quasi-experimental trial with a pre-post design was used to quantify the effect of a radio campaign on nutrition before and immediately after the 6-month intervention. Difference-in-difference (DID) analysis was performed to assess the intervention's effect.
Saboba district (intervention) and Central Gonja (comparison district) of northern region of Ghana.
At baseline, a total of 598 mothers with children aged 6-22 months were randomly selected from the intervention (
298) and control (
300) districts. At endline (6 months post-intervention), 252 mother-child dyads in the intervention district and 275 mother-child dyads in the control district were followed up.
The radio campaign was significantly and positively associated with a change in health- and nutrition-related attitudes (HNRA) over time, with DID in mean attitudes significantly improving more over time in the intervention district than the control (DID = 1·398,
< 0·001). Also, the prevalence of MAD over time in the intervention district was significantly higher than the control district (DID = 16·1 percentage points,
= 0·02) in the presence of food insecurity.
The study indicates that a radio campaign on nutrition is associated with improved mothers' HNRA and children's MAD. Communication interventions on child nutrition targeting low-resource settings should consider this innovative approach. |
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ISSN: | 1368-9800 1475-2727 1475-2727 |
DOI: | 10.1017/S1368980024001319 |