Effect of a nutrition education intervention on caregivers' knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding infant feeding and micronutrient powder use in urban health centers in Maputo, Mozambique
Érica Manuel e outros, 2026 · Frontiers in Nutrition
Reinforced nutrition education delivered during routine infant consultations did not produce a statistically significant additional improvement in feeding knowledge relative to standard counseling (+1.8 pp).
Estimativa · knowledge score, percentage points
1,80 [-2,30; 5,90]
percentage points
p = 0.381
- Desenho
- Diferenças em diferenças. Facility-level quasi-experimental difference-in-differences across two urban health centers
- População
- Primary caregivers of infants aged 6–8 months attending two urban primary health centers in Maputo, Mozambique, 2024–2025
- Amostra
- 442 · caregivers completing baseline and 6-month follow-up
Onde está o número
Results > Changes in caregivers' knowledge after the intervention; Results, Changes in caregivers' knowledge after the intervention, and Table 3
Difference-in-differences analysis indicated that the magnitude of improvement did not differ significantly between groups (DiD = +1.8 pp, 95% CI −2.3 to 5.9; p = 0.381).
Contexto
What changed: One primary health center delivered reinforced nutrition education on infant feeding and micronutrient powder over six months during routine child visits. Comparison: Another urban primary health center providing standard nutrition counseling. Limits: Quasi-experimental non-randomized two-facility design with significant baseline knowledge and income differences between groups.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaInformação e persuasão
- TipoCapacitação e aconselhamento
- EixoAlimentação
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Lugares do estudo
- Mozambique · País · MZ
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23