Nutrition education in health services and other determinants of complementary feeding in the Eastern region of Ghana
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Ghana, rates of undernutrition peak between 9 and 21 months of age; one major cause is inadequate complementary feeding (CF).This study examined the relationship between hospital-based CF education and caregivers' reported practices through interviews with health workers (n=24), caregivers (n=23), and Queen Mothers (n=6).Additionally, the associations among maternal HIV status, socioeconomic factors and introduction of solids were examined using data from 288 mother-infant pairs.Health workers and caregivers had good knowledge about CF initiation.However, health workers' recommendations for older infants did not consistently follow national guidelines.Barriers to CF education included limited teaching-aids and in-service training.Among caregivers, challenges included inconsistent CF messages and poverty.Sixty-two percent of mothers introduced solids before 6 months (5.2 ± 1.4 months).Mothers who introduced early were more likely to be HIV positive, have low-literacy and low-quality housing.Practical CF advice should be integrated and reinforced throughout the health system.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".