Health facility-based counselling and community outreach are associated with maternal dietary practices in a cross-sectional study from Tanzania

Table 4 Ordinary least squares: Associations between access to development assistance, health services, and mother’s dietary diversity

	Mother’s frequency of eating in previous 24 h			Mother’s dietary diversity in previous 24 h, 7-item scale
	Coefficient	95% CI	p	Coefficient	95% CI	p
Access to health services
Mother received any antenatal care in most recent pregnancy	0.2350	0.1697, 0.3003	< 0.001	0.0179	−0.0321, − 0.0679	0.484
Mother received advice on maternal nutrition from any source before her pregnancy	0.3426	0.2633, 0.4220	< 0.001	−0.0258	−0.0866, 0.0351	0.406
Mother received advice on maternal nutrition from any source during her pregnancy	0.0959	0.0330, 0.1588	0.003	0.0722	0.0243, 0.1201	0.003
Mother received advice on maternal nutrition from any source after she gave birth to youngest child	0.1888	0.1205, 0.2571	< 0.001	0.1094	0.0573, 0.1615	< 0.001
The last time a community health worker spoke with the mother about the child’s health generally
No community health worker gave advice (ref)
Before most recent pregnancy	0.2232	−0.0837, 0.5301	0.154	−0.0238	−0.2563, 0.2087	0.841
During most recent pregnancy	0.4812	0.3450, 0.6173	< 0.001	0.3133	0.2090, 0.4175	< 0.001
In the first few weeks and months after delivery	0.2536	0.1627, 0.3445	< 0.001	0.0421	−0.0273, 0.1112	0.235
Some other time	0.0534	−0.0365, 0.1432	0.244	0.0856	0.0169, 0.1543	0.015
Mother participates in any women’s groups	0.1594	0.0566, 0.2623	0.002	0.0256	−0.0528, 0.1041	0.522

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