Study objective | Outcome variables | Independent variable | Control variables | Type of analysis |
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1. To determine the effect of the intervention on breastfeeding and complementary feeding knowledge, attitudes and practices among mothers of infants | 1. Knowledge and attitude levels on breastfeeding and other infant feeding practices | Intervention status | SES1, food security, maternal demographic characteristics, antenatal care child morbidity | Multinomial logistic regression for rates and survival analysis for duration |
2. Breastfeeding practices, including initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth, exclusive breastfeeding (for first 6 months) and duration of exclusive and any breastfeeding | ||||
3. Complementary feeding practices for example, optimal timing of initiation of complementary feeding and minimum dietary diversity, minimum meal frequency, and minimum acceptable diet | ||||
2. To determine the effect of the intervention on nutritional outcomes among infants; | 1. Stunting | Intervention status | SES, food security, maternal demographic characteristics, child morbidity, antenatal care, vaccination status | Multinomial logistic regression |
2. Underweight | ||||
3. Wasting | ||||
3. To determine the effect of the intervention on morbidity from diarrhoea among infants | Diarrhoea morbidity | Intervention status | SES, food security, maternal demographic characteristics, child morbidity, antenatal care, vaccination status | Multilevel modeling |
4. To determine the experiences, facilitating and limiting factors associated with the intervention | 1. Client satisfaction | Not applicable | Not applicable | Descriptive (Outcome 1) Qualitative-thematic analysis (outcomes 2 and 3) |
2. Experiences | ||||
3. Limiting and enabling factors | ||||
5. To assess the cost-effectiveness of the intervention | Cost-effectiveness | Not applicable | Not applicable | Cost-Effective Analysis |