OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to assess nutritional status, dietary diversity and lifestyle risk factors associated with undernutrition in an institutionalised Sri Lankan elderly population. DESIGN The study was of cross-sectional design followed by a stratified sampling method. SETTING Twelve homes for the elderly recruited from six provinces in Sri Lanka. SUBJECTS A total of 311 ins...

BACKGROUND Infant and child feeding index (ICFI) an age-specific index, can be used to assess child feeding practices. We used the ICFI to assess feeding practices for urban slum children and the association between ICFI and child nutritional status. METHODS 446 children aged 6 to 24 months from urban slums of Mumbai, India were studied. We used the 24-hour diet recall to study dietary divers...

BACKGROUND Complementary food supplements (CFSs) can enhance growth where stunting is common, but substitution for the usual diet may reduce observed benefits. OBJECTIVE We aimed to characterize dietary diversity from home foods in a CFS efficacy trial and determine whether supplementation reduced breastfeeding frequency or displaced home foods. DESIGN In a cluster-randomized controlled tri...

The objective of this research was to evaluate diet quality in elderly nursing home residents and to point out the critical dietary components. The participants (277 females and 62 males) were recruited from all elderly nursing homes in Zagreb and each of elderly nursing homes was equally represented in this study. The age of subjects was ranging from 61 to 93 years; most of the females (53.4%)...

OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of the household dietary diversity score and the food consumption score, two indicators used for food security assessment and surveillance, and compare their performance in food security assessments in three countries. DESIGN Cross-sectional cluster sampling design using an interview-administered structured questionnaire on household food security, including h...

BACKGROUND Impaired cognition increases mortality in the aged. It is unclear how dietary quality might affect this relationship. OBJECTIVE To examine how dietary diversity and cognition might interact to determine survival. DESIGN In a Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan (NAHSIT 1999-2000), 1,839 representative elderly were followed for mortality up to 10 years. The dietary quality measur...

The COVID-19 pandemic raises the likelihood of food insecurity and affects nutritional status children. This study aims to examine relationship between household poverty children's dietary diversity. cross-sectional has done at Lhokseumawe City North Aceh District. A sample 289 children aged 12–59 months participated in this study. Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) was used measure insecu...

OBJECTIVES In Sub-Saharan Africa, the overlapping epidemics of undernutrition and HIV infection affect over 200 and 23 million people, respectively, and little is known about the combined prevalence and nutritional effects. The authors sought to determine which structural factors are associated with food insufficiency, low dietary diversity and low body mass index (BMI) in HIV-negative and HIV-...