Browsing by Author "Wassihun Kassaye"

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    Assessment of Dietary Diversity Score among Primary School Students of age 7 to 14 years of school feeding beneficiary and non-beneficiary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2022-07) Wassihun Kassaye; Chalachew Getahun (PhD)
    Background: School feeding is a program that provides food for students from lower-income households. It is a program that was introduced to increase enrolment rates, reduce absenteeism, and improve food security at primary schools. The Addis Ababa city administration implemented this program in all government-owned schools in Addis Ababa to reach out to students who demand support in the school learning process. Objective: To analyze the diet diversity score and associated factors among children on school feeding program beneficiary and non-beneficiary from February first to March 31 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Method: Quantitative comparative cross-sectional study designs were conducted with beneficiary to non-beneficiary ratio of one to one among 228 beneficiaries and 228 non beneficiaries. Data were collected using structured self-administered questionnaire, entered to Epi data version 3.1, and exported to SPSS version 23 for analysis. Multiple logistic regression was used for the analysis. Odds ratio with its 95% confidence intervals was used to determine the strength of association. Variables with P-value < 0.25 in the bivariate analysis were included in the multivariate logistic regression model and statistical significance was determined as p-value less than 0.05. Result: A total of 456 who were 228 school feeding beneficiary and 228 school feeding non beneficiary students were enrolled with 100% respondent rate. 65.4% 0f School feeding beneficiary and 61.4% of school feeding non beneficiary students had poor dietary diversity score where as 34.6% 0f school feeding beneficiary and 38.6% of school feeding non beneficiary students had good dietary diversity score. Conclusion: Generally our finding showed that both school feeding beneficiaries and non beneficiary students had poor dietary diversity scores and sex, having separate room for kitchen and school latrine having hand washing were determinant factors identified.