TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring coverage of infant and young child feeding counselling interventions
T2 - A framework and empirical considerations for survey question design
AU - Choufani, Jowel
AU - Kim, Sunny S.
AU - Nguyen, Phuong Hong
AU - Heidkamp, Rebecca
AU - Grummer-Strawn, Laurence
AU - Saha, Kuntal Kumar
AU - Hayashi, Chika
AU - Mehra, Vrinda
AU - Alayon, Silvia
AU - Menon, Purnima
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this study was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, through DataDENT, managed by Johns Hopkins University. Additional financial support to the study was provided by the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Funding Information:
We thank the participants of the Joint Consultation on Approaches to Measure Coverage of Nutrition Counselling Interventions, held in Washington DC on September 2018, for their contribution to the discussions that led to this paper. We also thank Audrey Buckland and Lan Mai Tran for providing data analysis support. Funding for this study was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, through DataDENT, managed by Johns Hopkins University. Additional financial support to the study was provided by the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors. Maternal & Child Nutrition published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - Most countries implement nutrition counselling interventions as part of programmes to support breastfeeding and complementary feeding. However, data to track coverage of counselling interventions are rarely available. As a result, little is known about the coverage of counselling on infant and young child feeding (IYCF). Survey-based data collection systems generally collect data on IYCF practices but do not collect data on coverage of interventions to support IYCF, and those surveys that do collect this information do not do so consistently. We present a framework to guide the design of survey questions to measure IYCF counselling coverage. We provide examples of how large-scale surveys for programme evaluation and national monitoring have included survey questions to address these data gaps. Our review suggests that elements relevant to designing survey questions to capture coverage of counselling interventions include timing of contact, target behaviour and message content, place of contact, type of service provider, frequency of contact and mode of intervention. Application of this framework may help strengthen harmonized measurement of IYCF counselling coverage to enable better tracking of programme investments, document progress in scaling up nutrition services and allow for cross-country comparisons. Thus, improving measurement of counselling coverage may lead to improved reach of programmes to support optimal IYCF practices.
AB - Most countries implement nutrition counselling interventions as part of programmes to support breastfeeding and complementary feeding. However, data to track coverage of counselling interventions are rarely available. As a result, little is known about the coverage of counselling on infant and young child feeding (IYCF). Survey-based data collection systems generally collect data on IYCF practices but do not collect data on coverage of interventions to support IYCF, and those surveys that do collect this information do not do so consistently. We present a framework to guide the design of survey questions to measure IYCF counselling coverage. We provide examples of how large-scale surveys for programme evaluation and national monitoring have included survey questions to address these data gaps. Our review suggests that elements relevant to designing survey questions to capture coverage of counselling interventions include timing of contact, target behaviour and message content, place of contact, type of service provider, frequency of contact and mode of intervention. Application of this framework may help strengthen harmonized measurement of IYCF counselling coverage to enable better tracking of programme investments, document progress in scaling up nutrition services and allow for cross-country comparisons. Thus, improving measurement of counselling coverage may lead to improved reach of programmes to support optimal IYCF practices.
KW - coverage measurement
KW - infant and young child feeding
KW - nutrition counselling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083467462&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85083467462&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/mcn.13001
DO - 10.1111/mcn.13001
M3 - Article
C2 - 32297479
AN - SCOPUS:85083467462
SN - 1740-8695
VL - 16
JO - Maternal and Child Nutrition
JF - Maternal and Child Nutrition
IS - 4
M1 - e13001
ER -